PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In his role as Chairman of Global Brokerage, Stephen Siegel advises major corporations and property owners on a broad range of real estate issues. Mr. Siegel is widely regarded in commercial real estate circles as one of the industry’s most talented and prolific professionals. In 2005, he was featured in the Urban Land Institute’s book, Leadership Legacies: Lessons Learned from Ten Real Estate Legends. The previous year, Mr. Siegel was
honored with Commercial Property News’ Lifetime Achievement Award STEPHEN SIEGEL and named by Crain’s as one of the 100 Most Influential Business Leaders Chairman, Global in New York City. Brokerage Prior to the merger with CBRE, as Chairman and CEO of Insignia/ESG, Mr. T +1 212 984 8100 Siegel was largely responsible for masterminding the global expansion of F +1 212 984 8040 the firm, nationwide as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, [email protected] China, Thailand and Latin America. In that role, he also managed a group om that completed approximately $2 billion in co-investments in a wide range of U.S. office, residential, hotel and retail real estate portfolios. CLIENTS Throughout his distinguished career, he has arranged transactions for some REPRESENTED of the nation’s most prominent corporate clients, among them, J.P. Morgan Akin, Gump, Chase & Co.; Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP; Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Strauss, Hauer & Jacobson LLP; Amerada Hess Corp.; Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.; Swiss Feld LLP Amerada Hess Reinsurance; MetLife; Cerberus Capital Management; and Akin, Gump, Corp. Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP. CUNY Most recently, Mr. Siegel negotiated Gucci Group’s lease at Trump Tower Davis Polk & in Manhattan—the most valuable retail deal ever completed—on behalf Wardwell Dresdner Kleinwort of The Trump Organization, a transaction that was recognized by the Real Evercore Partners Estate Board of New York as 2006’s Most Creative Retail Deal of the Year. Fried Frank Harris He also advised Hudson Waterfront Associates, a partnership of several Shriver & Jacobson overseas investors, on the acquisition of 1290 Avenue of the Americas for LLP $1.25 billion, and then re-sold it one year later to Vornado Realty Trust. In J.P. Morgan Chase addition, Mr. Siegel arranged the $306 million sale of the parcel on the & Co. southeast corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, the last developable Kenyon & Kenyon site within the 42nd Street Development Project, to SJP Properties, which is MetLife constructing Eleven Times Square, a one million-sq.-ft. office property, on Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. the site. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP ACHIEVEMENTS Swiss Reinsurance Wasserstein & Co. Establishment of the Stephen and Wendy Siegel Rabin Fellow by the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center (AFRMC) Establishment of the Charles and Ann Siegel Scholarship Fund at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2008 American Jewish Committee’s Real Estate Division National Human Relations Award Israel Bonds’ Real Estate and Construction Division’s 2007 Israel Peace Medal for his leadership in building Israel’s economy through the Israel
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
STEPHEN SIEGEL Bonds program Chairman, Global The Real Estate Board of New York’s 2006 Most Creative Retail Deal of Brokerage the Year Award for Gucci Group’s lease at Trump Tower, the most T +1 212 984 8100 valuable retail deal ever completed F +1 212 984 8040 [email protected] Named co-chair of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center’s om Council of National Trustees, 2006 Commercial Property News’ 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award The Real Estate Board of New York’s inaugural Edward S. Gordon Memorial Award in 2004 for the purchase of 230 West 41st Street The Real Estate Board of New York’s 2003 Henry Hart Rice Achievement Award for the Most Ingenious Deal of the Year for the sale of the McGraw-Hill Companies’ interest in 1221 Avenue of the Americas Honoree at the Parker Jewish Institute’s annual dinner dance and celebrity auction in 2003 The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation “Man of the Year” Award in 2002 National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations’ Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2002 Five-time winner of Commercial Property News’ Brokerage Executive of the Year Award Monmouth University Real Estate Institute’s Leadership Excellence Award in 2001 New York University Real Estate Institute’s Urban Leadership Award in 2000 AHRC-NYC’s “Stephen B. Siegel Adult Day Care Center” (located in Fulton Landing, NY); inducted into the group’s Hall of Honor in 1999 The Foundation Fighting Blindness Humanitarian Award in 1999
PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS/AFFILIATIONS
President, Board of the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center - AFRMC (Israel’s largest medical facility) Advisory Board, Baruch College’s Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute Business Leadership Council, City University of New York 20-year Member of Board, Foundation Fighting Blindness 25-year Member of Board, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; currently Honorary Member Member, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Member of Advisory Board, City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation - 15-year Member of Board - First-ever recipient of City Center’s Fiorello LaGuardia Award Board of Directors, Jazz Foundation Board of Directors, Lower East Side Tenement Museum Board of Directors, Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America Board of Directors, Liberty Property Trust
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
STEPHEN SIEGEL Former Board Member, YMCA Chairman, Global New York Administrative Committee, Fleet Boston Financial Bank Brokerage National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine T +1 212 984 8100 F +1 212 984 8040 Co-Chairman of National Trustees [email protected] Children’s Blood Foundation om Trustee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation General Chairman of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children (AHRC-NYC)
HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREES
Yeshiva University Baruch College, commencement 2003 Monmouth University, commencement 2003 St. Thomas Aquinas College, Commercial Science, commencement 2007
HONORED BY
The Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) Appraisal Institute Garden State Ballet Special Olympics New York The Jeffrey Modell Foundation Israel Cancer Research Fund Albert Einstein College of Medicine, National Conference of Christians & Jews United Jewish Appeal Lower East Side Tenement Museum Rabin Medical Center