Multinational petroleum firm Shell has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle's EMEA Corporate Solutions team as its primary provider of real estate support services across the EMEA region.

Multinational petroleum firm Shell has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle's EMEA Corporate Solutions team as its primary provider of real estate support services across the EMEA region.

The contract will be for an initial term of three years with an option to extend for up to two years for project management, real estate consultancy, brokerage, valuation and other services.

The Shell EMEA portfolio consists of some 4,000 leased and owned assets, including commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural land, former operational land, leisure and hotel facilities, operational plants and depots with supporting infrastructure such as pipelines.

Cushman & Wakefield will provide services as a secondary provider in the outsourcing agreement.

The business was won in a competitive tender with DTZ, Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE all bidding for the contract. CB Richard Ellis will retain its existing instruction in connection with the redevelopment of the Shell Centre in London and separate responsibility for Shell's 6,000-site retail portfolio across 17 countries in the EMEA region.