NEW YORK CITY-Cushman & Wakefield said Monday it hasexpanded its capital markets practice with a group that will adviseclients on the disposition of corporate property across theUS. Heading the new practice will be Richard Ingwers,recently named vice chairman.

Ingwers will supervise a national team that will include vicechairman Andrew Merin and Brad Rogers, an executive director inC&W’s capital markets group. Merin and his partner, vicechairman David Bernhaut, will be responsible for the team’sexecution in the Eastern US, while Rogers will do the same for theWest.

“We think it’s important to coordinate not only the geographiesbut also the business lines,” C&W CEO Glenn Rufrano toldGlobeSt.com in June. The establishment of a cross-disciplinarypractice for asset disposition fits in with that strategy, andRufrano says in a release that the new initiative “enables ourcapital markets group to operate more efficiently, across the fullspectrum of our service platform, in the execution of corporatereal estate sales.”