Cushman & Wakefield has announced that Gregory Vorwaller has joined the firm as global head of capital markets. Vorwaller joins C&W from CB Richard Ellis, where he was chief operating officer of capital markets and president of its investment properties group. He will be based in Chicago.

Cushman & Wakefield has announced that Gregory Vorwaller has joined the firm as global head of capital markets. Vorwaller joins C&W from CB Richard Ellis, where he was chief operating officer of capital markets and president of its investment properties group. He will be based in Chicago.

C&W described Vorwaller as 'one of the industry's most experienced property investment and finance executives'. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services and real estate industries, with an emphasis on advising institutional investors on real estate investment strategies, structured finance, real estate securitization and property sales. For more than a decade at CB Richard Ellis he oversaw its investment properties group.

At Cushman & Wakefield, Vorwaller will be responsible for the division of the firm that specialises in representing third-party investors in the acquisition, disposition, financing and recapitalisation of commercial real estate worldwide. Cushman & Wakefield maintains 231 offices in 60 countries. In 2009, its capital markets group completed sales and financing transactions valued at more than $31 bn (EUR 22 bn) globally.