Commercial real estate advisor Newmark Group has hired Matthew Featherstone as head of debt & structured finance for Newmark in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe.
Featherstone will work with Newmark’s UK & EMEA Capital Markets teams, including Newmark’s head of London Office Markets Tony Gibbon, Newmark’s president for the UK Michael Lehrman, and John Rodgers, head of the UK Capital Markets and Corporate Finance teams for Gerald Eve, a Newmark company.
In addition, Featherstone will work closely with Charlie Foster who was recently hired by Newmark affiliate Cantor Fitzgerald Europe to head up the real estate investment banking group, bolstering Newmark’s debt and equity capital markets services in the UK and Europe.
Based in London, Featherstone joins Newmark from CBRE, where he served as executive director, debt & structured finance, capital advisors. With nearly 20 years of finance experience spanning various real estate subsectors, including heading HSBC’s Global Banking UK Real Estate division, Featherstone has executed over $75 bn of financing and loan origination transactions.
Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, Foster served as the managing director and head of Real Estate, Europe at RBC Capital Markets, where he originated and executed M&A, ECM, private capital and DCM transactions directly, alongside product specialists and regional teams (Europe, US, Canada and Australia).
