Avison Young Lands Another Senior Broker

NEW YORK CITY-Avison Young has nabbed a senior level broker from Cushman & Wakefield. Adam Rappaport, who served at Cushman for 13 years, most recently as senior director, has been hired as a principal at Avison, effective immediately.

At Cushman & Wakefield, Rappaport represented tenants and landlords in office leasing. Notable deals included SourceMedia, Inc.’s leases at 1 State Street Plaza and 1 Whitehall Street, totaling 142,000 square feet; the DirecTV Group’s 138,000-square-foot lease at 1 Rockefeller Plaza; and Infor Global Solutions’ lease at 641 Avenue of the Americas for 43,000 square feet. Rappaport also worked on behalf of UBS AG in the company’s leases at 101 Park Ave. and 1285 Avenue of the Americas, totaling 143,000 square feet; and he represented BlackRock in transactions totaling 50,000 square feet at 40 East 52nd St.