Colliers hires head of retail capital markets from Montagu Evans
Colliers has appointed Mark Girling as an executive director to lead its retail capital markets team.
He will be part of Colliers’ 40-plus member capital markets team, which includes specialists across offices, industrial, living and healthcare sectors, as well as experts in debt and capital advisory. This team collaborates closely with the firm’s sector-focused agency and lease advisory divisions.
Girling joins from Montagu Evans, where he spent two decades and established the commercial transactions department. His previous experience also includes roles at Knight Frank and CBRE.
Colliers has appointed Mark Girling as an executive director to lead its retail capital markets team.
He will be part of Colliers’ 40-plus member capital markets team, which includes specialists across offices, industrial, living and healthcare sectors, as well as experts in debt and capital advisory. This team collaborates closely with the firm’s sector-focused agency and lease advisory divisions.
Girling joins from Montagu Evans, where he spent two decades and established the commercial transactions department. His previous experience also includes roles at Knight Frank and CBRE.
Girling specialises in retail parks, food stores and leisure assets. With more than 40 years of experience in retail and leisure investment across the UK and Europe, he has advised on numerous high-profile acquisitions, disposals and development fundings for institutional investors, REITs, developers, government bodies and property companies.
John Munday, chief executive officer of Colliers UK, said: “Mark’s leadership experience will be invaluable for bringing our team and the wider business together to create opportunities and make strategic connections for our clients – in his areas of expertise and beyond.”
Girling said: “The depth of cross-sector occupational and lease advisory expertise is seriously impressive, and in an uncertain world, the stability and power of leveraging a global platform with such local strengths is attractive and reassuring to clients. There is a laser focus on pulling these diverse, expert service lines together domestically and from overseas, to empower our clients’ decision-making and execution.”
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