LOS ANGELES—Newmark Grubb Knight Frank has built on recent growth in its Southern California offices with the addition of Michael F. Kane as executive managing director in its capital-markets group.

Kane, with over $6 billion in sales, acquisitions and dispositions of institutional quality properties during his 20+-year career, joins the capital-markets group in the firm's Downtown Los Angeles office, where he will concentrate on the greater Western U.S. and represent clients nationally. As part of the Capital Group's Southern California team, he will focus primarily on providing investment sales and capital solutions expertise to both private and institutional office and industrial owners and lenders.

Kane most recently served as a senior director in the strategic partners division of CBRE Global Investors, as well as senior vice president with CBRE, and is the sixth executive-level capital markets broker in Southern California to join NGKF in recent months.

“We are building a world-class capital markets group and are now a powerhouse in the western United States following additional hires in top markets like San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver and Phoenix,” said James D. Kuhn, president of NGKF. “Our unmatched platform continues to attract superb talent like Michael, giving clients access to the brightest in the industry to help them achieve maximum value through every contingency, whether it be to assist in complex investment decisions, secure financing or to manage distressed properties.”

“The unique combination of highly skilled debt and equity professionals, as part of NGKF's fully integrated real estate platform, presents an unparalleled opportunity to provide clients with specialized real estate solutions to achieve their objectives,” Kane said.

Kane provided clients with high-level investment analysis and strategic planning in his previous position, executing more than $700 million in acquisitions and dispositions of institutional quality office buildings. Prior to joining CBRE Global Investors in early 2010, he worked for a decade in the institutional group of CBRE Capital Markets in Newport Beach, CA, most recently as a senior vice president, co-leading an investment sales team that generated average annual gross revenue of $4.4 million. He sold or acquired more than 130 properties, amounting to more than 26 million square feet, as well as more than $160 million in land transactions.

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is one of the world's leading commercial real estate advisory firms. Together with its affiliates and London-based partner Knight Frank, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank employs more than 11,000 professionals, operating from more than 340 offices in established and emerging property markets on five continents.