The team will be located in the firm's New York City office andwill report to Jonathan Geanakos and John Schoenfeld, co-heads ofthe real estate, lodging and leisure group. While at JP Morgan,Gordon and his team were primarily responsible for middle marketinvestment sales and debt and equity real estate activity fornon-public companies.

Geanakos tells GlobeSt.com that the company has worked withGordon and his team for many years, pointing to an example whenHoulihan co-advised JP Morgan as its client in two sale-leasebacktransactions totaling nearly $800 million. "Gary and his colleaguespossess unique expertise in both property and entity level realestate M&A, and a myriad of corporate finance assignmentsinvolving large, complex transactions."

Geanakos continues that "since they've been involved ininvestment sales, corporate real estate monetization, raising jointventure equity, and placing debt they perfectly combine with ourexisting real estate group professionals to expand our band widthand accelerate Houlihan's objective of creating a diversifiedglobal real estate investment banking platform specificallytargeting the middle market."

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