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For Immediate Release
MOHR PARTNERS APPOINTS MELISSA COPLEY AS MANAGING PARTNER OF CHICAGO OFFICE, JOINING CURRENT MANAGING PARTNER CHRIS BARGOWSKI
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Mohr Partners, Inc., an international corporate real estate advisory firm, has appointed Melissa Copley as Managing Partner of its Chicago office. She joins Chris Bargowski, Managing Partner of Mohr's Chicago office since 2005.
Ms. Copley brings 22 years of commercial real estate experience to Mohr Partners with extensive expertise in managing strategic relationships, providing portfolio strategic planning and negotiating large complex transactions.
Ms. Copley's career includes 17 years with Jones Lang LaSalle, where she was an International Director, served as Chairman of its Global Law Firm Practice Group and was Managing Director of the firm's largest Tenant Representation team, closing over 20 million square feet in transactions.
In 2005, Ms. Copley founded Copley Advisors where she provided strategic planning and specialized tenant representation to a broad range of sophisticated companies and law firms. Ms. Copley began her career in 1983 in banking and venture capital, joining LaSalle Partners, now Jones Lang LaSalle, in 1988.
Ms. Copley has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. Ms. Copley is Chairman of AECRE, the International Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate; she serves on the Corporate Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago; and she is an active member of CoreNet Global and Lambda Alpha International Land Economics Society.
Mr. Bargowski, a 15-year industry veteran, has been a Managing Partner with Mohr Partners since 2005. While at Mohr, Mr. Bargowski has led teams to strategically assist clients throughout the United States and internationally on various types of real estate asset classes. He has been instrumental in managing portfolios in excess of 9 million square feet as well as corporate and regional headquarters locations. His extensive real estate experience includes build-to-suits, leasing, investment sales, sale leasebacks and strategic planning.
Mr. Bargowski was named Mohr Partners' Partner of the Year for 2006. He began his real estate career with Galbreath and Jones Lang LaSalle representing landlords on their office portfolios throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Prior to real estate, he was in sales with a Swiss Robotics firm and in management with Motorola's Semiconductor division. Mr. Bargowski has a BA in Materials and Logistics Management from Michigan State University.
"Chicago is an important market for Mohr Partners and a key geographic area for our clients. We are fortunate to attract esteemed professionals like Melissa Copley, who adds her impressive background and extensive experience in corporate services and tenant representation to our dedicated CRE professional team. Melissa brings depth of experience in the financial and legal sectors along with intimate knowledge of the Greater Chicago market, and will deliver true value to Mohr Partners' clients," said Ted Fredericks, President of Mohr Partners. "Our corporate objective is to continue expanding our presence nationally and globally to enhance the breadth and depth of corporate services that we provide our clients."
"Mohr Partners is unique in its core values, services platform and employee compensation structure, all of which fully aligns Mohr Partners with its clients' best interests and business objectives," said Copley. "This combination is unmatched in the industry today. I could not be more pleased to have found Mohr Partners and am extremely excited to introduce this high value corporate real estate services company to my clients and other occupiers of commercial real estate."
Dallas-based Mohr Partners Inc. is an international corporate real estate services, advisory and consulting firm with 15 U.S. offices. Since 1986, Mohr Partners has been managing real estate portfolios for corporations and completes in excess of 2,500 transactions each year for its clients. U.S. offices are located in Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX, Los Angeles, CA, Melville, NY, Minneapolis, MN, Newport Beach, CA, New York, NY, Orlando, FL, Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, AZ. Mohr, through its Joint Venture partnership with AsiaPac International, seamlessly provides corporate real estate services globally in over 42 locations worldwide and 71 countries. For more information on Mohr Partners please visit:
www.mohrpartners.com.
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