Jones Lang LaSalle Acquires Quadrant Realty Finance

""Jones Lang LaSalle"":http://www.us.am.joneslanglasalle.com/unitedstates/en-us/Pages/Home.aspx (JLL) announced the acquisition of Dallas-based Quadrant Realty Finance (QRF), a debt and equity origination platform.

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The acquisition allows JLL to strategically expand its platform, adding a financing practice in North Texas to complement the firm's overall capital markets expertise across the state and the entire Southwest.

The team is led by Randy Fleisher, who joins JLL as a managing director. Fleisher has more than two decades of commercial real estate experience, including the origination, structuring, placement, and closing of debt and equity investments. He is a former managing director and EVP at CBRE, and he began his career as an attorney with the law firm of Monk Goodwin in Winnipeg, Canada, practicing real estate and commercial law.

Fleisher is joined by Curtis Jaggars and Jason Piering, who serve as EVPs.

""Joining this highly respected firm, with its combined JLL and Staubach legacy in the Dallas market, will allow us to increase the number of arrows in our quiver exponentially. Most importantly, our clients will significantly benefit from our partnership with the office and multifamily investment sales experts in Dallas and our longtime friends and colleagues in Houston,"" Fleisher said. ""We are very honored to be a part of this growing team.""

""This is the ideal climate to respond to increasing client demand in the financing arena, and the ideal time for us to acquire significant new talent,"" said Jay Koster, president of JLL's Capital Markets. ""Randy and his colleagues have a proven track record that will make an immediate impact for our clients.""