{"id":1004170172,"date":"2017-03-24T06:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004170172"},"modified":"2022-12-08T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:09:40","slug":"hff-appoints-new-senior-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/hff-appoints-new-senior-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"HFF Appoints New Senior Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004170195\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/03\/Roland-Merchant-Jr..png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004170195\" data-attachment-id=\"1004170195\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/hff-appoints-new-senior-managing-director\/roland-merchant-jr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/03\/Roland-Merchant-Jr..png\" data-orig-size=\"300,420\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Roland Merchant Jr., senior managing director, HFF\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Roland Merchant Jr., senior managing director, HFF&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/03\/Roland-Merchant-Jr..png?w=300\" class=\"wp-image-1004170195 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/03\/Roland-Merchant-Jr..png\" alt=\"Roland Merchant Jr., senior managing director, HFF\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/03\/Roland-Merchant-Jr..png 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/03\/Roland-Merchant-Jr..png?resize=214,300 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004170195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roland Merchant Jr., senior managing director, HFF<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New York<\/strong>\u2014HFF hired Roland Merchant Jr. as a senior managing director for its New York office.<\/p>\n<p>Merchant will bring two decades of experience in sales, finance and real estate investment to HFF and will focus on investment sales and structured transactions. Before joining\u00a0the firm, Merchant worked with Eastdil Secured, in the Capital Markets Group at Cushman &amp; Wakefield and the Leveraged Finance Group at Merrill Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHFF is thrilled to have Roland join our firm and strengthen our New York investment sales team,\u201d said Andrew Scandalios, senior managing director &amp; co-head of HFF\u2019s New York office, in prepared remarks. \u201cRoland has a wealth of experience, deep relationships and thorough real estate knowledge, which will be of great value to HFF\u2019s existing and future clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merchant holds a M.B.A degree from Columbia Business School and a B.A degree\u00a0from Dillard University. He is a licensed securities representative, a licensed real estate salesperson in the state of New York and a member of Urban Land Institute, the National Multifamily Housing Council, the Real Estate Roundtable President\u2019s Council and Real Estate Executive Council. He\u00a0is the board chairman for the Robert Toigo Foundation Alumni Endowment Board and vice-chairman on the board of trustees for the City Parks Foundation of New York.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of HFF<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merchant will focus on investment sales and structured transactions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":1004170195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600,21742,10,21744],"tags":[34568,32799,33101,32792,34567],"class_list":["post-1004170172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-latest","category-northeast","category-people","tag-andrew-scandalios","tag-cushman-wakefield","tag-eastdil-secured","tag-hff","tag-merrill-lynch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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