The two new additions to the JLL capital markets group are SVPJon Nesbitt and VP Baker Morphy. Nesbitt and Morphy are the eighthand ninth professionals that the firm has added to its capitalmarkets group in the past six months, notes David Doupé, managingdirector of Jones Lang LaSalle's capital markets group. Nesbittformerly was a vice president in the financial services group ofGrubb & Ellis, and Morphy was an associate director in thecapital markets group at Cushman & Wakefield.

The new regional office includes an existing team of localmarket brokers, led by Jeff Ingham and Tom Murphy, who focus ontenant representation and have long represented Jones Lang LaSallein the Orange County market. According to Jan Pope, regionaldirector-west for JLL, the expansion and relocation of the OrangeCounty office is part of the firm's focus on expanding inCalifornia.

Pope says that the new Orange County office not only positionsJLL to offer a broader range of services in Orange County but alsoallows for greater penetration into critical growth markets such asOrange County, San Diego and the Inland Empire. The Orange Countyexpansion is the latest in a series of moves in the Greater LosAngeles region by JLL in recent months, including its acquisitionof Los Angeles-based Zietsman Realty Partners Inc., a real estateinvestment banking firm headed by Michael Zietsman.