JLL Hires Meadows to Head Asia Cap Markets

SINGAPORE-Jones Lang LaSalle has hired Alistair Meadows to lead its International Capital Group in the Asia-Pacific region. Meadows was formerly regional director, capital markets, for DTZ Sydney. He will start in his new position in August, and will be based here.

He will work alongside Andrew Martin, a member of the group who is based in Sydney, Australia, and Stuart Crow, head of Asia Pacific Capital Markets in Singapore, to help drive the expansion of the firm's global Capital Markets business. The team oversees and coordinates the sale and financing of trophy assets with global investor appeal. Meadows will focus on facilitating cross-border capital flows and investment transactions, driving sources of capital, especially in Korea, China and South East Asia, to invest outside of Asia Pacific.

Company officials said that in the past six months, JLL has moved assertively to build up the capital markets business. "We are well positioned to take advantage of the increase in capital volumes in the property market. Cross border momentum is building as economies continue to recover. With an expected growth in investment volumes of 35-45% across the region this year, we are seeing a renewed appeal to investors in the market," said Alastair Hughes, CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle for Asia Pacific.

Meadows is 39. During his tenure with DTZ, he was responsible for major cross border investment transactions totaling over $3 billion, with both in-bound capital to Australia and out-bound capital to Europe and Japan.