HFF Expands New York Capital Markets Team
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler hired Scott Aiese as managing director in its New York office. He will focus on debt and equity placement transactions in the greater New York City area.
Aiese has more than nine years of experience in commercial real estate finance, most recently with Cushman & Wakefield (formerly Massey Knakal Realty Services), where he closed more than $550 million of transactions for his clients. He joined Massey Knakal to help establish its Capital Services business in 2011.
Prior to this role, Aiese was a vice president in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s commercial real estate banking division, which focused on syndicated balance sheet transactions ranging from $15 million to $1.2 billion. He began his career as an analyst in the same group at Bank of America, N.A.
Additionally, Alex Staikos joined HFF as a real estate analyst supporting the debt team. Staikos worked with Aiese at Cushman & Wakefield as a senior associate.
Auction.com Selects Khamish to Develop Commercial Broker Channel
Auction.com LLC, Irvine, Calif., named Yan Khamish managing director of business development. In this new role focused on nurturing the company’s commercial real estate broker channel, he will draw from his 20-plus years of industry experience to provide enhanced support to brokers.
Khamish will be based in Auction.com’s New York office. He comes to Auction.com from Fortress Investment Group, where he served as senior vice president managing a diverse commercial real estate, infrastructure and transportation portfolio valued at $3.5 billion. His previous positions include chief operating officer and managing director for The STG Group, senior vice president at Fowler Property Acquisitions and director and commercial broker at Marcus & Millichap.
Hunt Mortgage Group Hires Shah to Launch CLO Initiative
Hunt Mortgage Group, New York, announced today that Amy Shah joined the firm to launch and build a collateralized loan obligation platform for the company. She joins Hunt as vice president on the Proprietary Lending Team and will operate out of the firm’s New York office.
“In addition to establishing a CLO program for Hunt Mortgage Group, Amy will also focus heavily on placing bridge loans and will work to help expand the balance-sheet lending program,” noted Becktel. “Our non-agency lending business, known as the Proprietary Lending Group, has closed or committed more than $450 million in loans so far in 2015. We plan to grow that business and begin issuing commercial real estate CLOs as part of our long-range securitization plans.”
Prior to joining Hunt Mortgage Group, Shah was with Resource Real Estate as a vice president in their CRE Capital Markets division. She structured, priced, securitized and managed several CRE CLO transactions. Before that, she was a real estate finance attorney at Ledgewood Law Firm in Philadelphia, where she drafted documents for first mortgage, mezzanine, preferred equity and capital markets transactions. Earlier in her career, Shah was a real estate investment banking associate at Sonnenblick-Goldman Company in New York.
