Building upon the company's ground level presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, the new team will be led by Deborah Smith and June Yu, both of whom join CBRE Investors as senior managing directors. In addition, it was announced that effective immediately, Smith and Yu would join the firm's global leadership team, which is charged with executing the firm's plan, according to a company statement. Smith and Yu join the firm from Lehman Brothers, where they were SVPs in the real estate mergers and acquisitions group and global real estate investment banking group.

Vance Maddocks, CEO of CBRE Investors, says the creation of the new investment team expands the firm's existing expertise in executing major real estate investment banking transactions across its global platform.

"CBRE Investors' global presence has grown substantially over the last 18 months thanks to the depth and efficiency of our multi-disciplined real estate investment platform and the flexibility afforded by our various investment programs," he says. "The ability to attract, analyze and execute large scale transactions at the entity-level is the next logical step in our goal of providing investors with an investment platform that reaches around the globe as well as into every key sector of the risk/return spectrum in real estate."

The new team will support the firm's investment teams already in place in Boston, Baltimore, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

"In the last few years, CBRE Investors has delivered several large scale real estate portfolios to the public markets here and abroad," Maddocks notes, citing initial public offerings for companies such as Digital Realty Trust in the US and New City Residence Investment Corp., one of the first J-REITs in Japan.

"The expansion of our transaction expertise under the guidance of Deborah and June significantly enhances our global in-house capability to execute a broad range of transactions including entity-level investments, the acquisition of operating companies and the recapitalization of large-scale joint ventures. We believe the benefits of dedicating resources in this strategic direction will be both immediate and long term for our global investor base."

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CBRE Investors Expands Global Capabilities

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