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Seven-Person East Coast Retail Team Joins HFF
May 13, 2008

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. has announced that a team of seven capital markets professionals and analysts will join the firm. The team members, formerly of Staubach Capital Markets, will focus on investment sales and capital markets transactions in the retail property sector. The team members will work primarily with the firm's east coast offices of Atlanta, Boston, Hartford and Westport, Connecticut, Miami, New Jersey, New York City and Washington, D.C. Whitney Knoll, who was a senior managing director and leader of the East Coast Retail Team at Staubach, will join as senior managing director in the Atlanta office. Lynn De Marco will join the New York City office as a managing director. Bradley Peterson will join the firm as a managing director. Peterson will be focusing on the Southeastern part of the country and will work closely the Miami office. Richard Reid, James Hamilton and Kevin Hurley also will join HFF in its Atlanta office. Justin Greider will continue working as part of Peterson’s team as a senior real estate analyst and was a senior financial analyst for the retail team with Staubach and Trammell Crow.

 
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