Mr. Hayes brings almost 20 years of Capital Markets experience. Currently, Mr. Hayes is a Managing Director in Cushman & Wakefield's Portfolio Sales and Transaction Advisory Practice. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Hayes spent 7 years with CBRE's National Loan & Portfolio Sales Group executing over $15 billion of sales and advisory assignments. Before CBRE, Mr. Hayes spent 3 years at FBR Capital Markets in the Investment Banking Group covering Financial Institutions focused on Equity Capital Markets. Mr. Hayes began his career and spent 7 years at Merrill Lynch in the Debt Capital Markets Investment Banking Division.

In his capacity at Cushman & Wakefield, Mr. Hayes oversees all aspects of the sale process including development of prospective sales strategies, capital markets implementation, institutional contact liaison, negotiation and closing with buyers/sellers, portfolio structuring and financing on behalf of sellers with all related ancillary advisory functions.