Cushman & Wakefield Beefs Up Biz Incentives Group

Jane Orlin joins Cushman & Wakefield’s business incentives practice after holding several posts at ADP.

NEW YORK CITY—Cushman & Wakefield has strengthened a key facet of its occupier services division. The firm has added tax credit veteran Jane Orlin as a senior managing director in its business incentives practice. Orlin, who has more than 20 years experience in tax credit and incentive negotiation and administration, joins C&W after serving nine years as senior director with Automatic Data Processing  for its tax credit practice, where she helped secure more than $40 million of incentives. She also served as northeast practice leader and national practice leader for economic development services at ADP. C&W states that Orlin has helped save Fortune 500 companies more than $250 million during her career. She helped secure those firms tax savings, grants, property tax abatements, sales tax exemptions, corporate income tax credits and donations, utility discounts, waivers on permitting fees and other financial benefits that included bond and tax increment financing. Orlin will be reporting to Cushman & Wakefield portfolio solutions’ president Kevin C. Hughes. “We are committed to growing our incentives group as client demand for business incentives and site selection services continue to expand,” Hughes says. “Jane has a sterling, national reputation exhibited in both her expertise and integrity and she represents exactly the type of professionals we want on our team partnering with our clients.” At ADP, Orlin managed a team of 14 professionals for combined revenue greater than $14 million; subsequently transforming the Northeast’s underperforming practice to a leading powerhouse in the United States, C&W states. Before ADP, she previously held positions at New York area law firm Stadtmauer Bailkin & Biggins and at accounting firm KPMG.