Jeff Samaras

Profile

ROLE & RESPONSIBILIITIES

Mr. Samaras is a shareholder of the firm, on the Chicago Leadership Committee, and the National Tenant Advisory Council, and appointed to the Cushman & Wakefield Global Advisory Board of Directors by Cushman & Wakefield's Chief Executive Officer. He has consistently ranked among the top-producing brokers for Cushman & Wakefield globally.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jeffrey Samaras has specialized in corporate real estate services with the Commercial Brokerage Group of Cushman & Wakefield since joining the firm in 1982. He has negotiated a wide range of transactions including leases, leases with equity participation, build-to-suits, purchases, sales, and sale/leaseback's. Given that the majority of his work focuses on corporate users, his experience is rooted not only in the Chicago metropolitan area but he represents a number of firms nationally and globally.

Assignments

Over the past several years, Mr. Samaras has lead and completed major tenant representation transactions for a number of his clients including:

H&R Block, 550,000 sf

Heller Financial, Inc., 460,000 sf

GE Capital Corporation, 425,000 sf

GE Capital Corporation, 308,000 sf

Robert Bosch Corporation, 245,000 sf

WPP Holdings Inc., 223,000 sf

Tribune Companies, 216,000 sf

Kaplan Education, 208,000

Chicago Public Schools, 203,000 sf

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, 202,000 sf

First Options of Chicago, 201,000 sf

Willis Insurance, 143,000 sf