Colorado Real Estate Journal - January 6, 2016
As part of its efforts to build a full-service capital markets team in the Rocky Mountain region, JLL Capital Markets hired Baxter Fain as a managing director. Fain has more than 20 years of commercial real estate finance experience and is tasked with securing debt and equity for all property types, including office, retail, industrial, hotel, multifamily and self-storage financing. Fain came to the firm from Sunflower Bank, where he was a senior vice president and regional president. Prior to that he was a managing partner at Trinity One Group. He also spent nearly five years at a global commercial real estate firm. Fain began his career at Goldman Sachs, handling loan originations and underwriting for the Midwest region. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Southern Methodist University. Greg Hundley joined national health care real estate developer NexCore Group as executive vice president and general counsel. In his new role, Hundley is responsible for all legal matters related to the development, construction, ownership, leasing, management, conversion, financing and acquisition of the company’s health care real estate portfolio. Hundley has more than 18 years of experience in commercial real estate and corporate matters, 11 of which have been focused on health care real estate development. He formerly served as vice president and assistant general counsel with Lend Lease Healthcare Development LLC in Nashville. Hundley has expertise negotiating and closing complex, multiparty transactions; financing projects through various governmental and private-sector debt and equity sources; overseeing the details of large-scale health care real estate projects; drafting/ negotiating related transaction documentation and business agreements; managing acquisitions, dispositions and mergers; overseeing commercial mortgage financing; implementing and managing joint ventures and partnerships; overseeing property and infrastructure development; and handling commercial leasing, loan workouts and litigation with respect to transactions totaling approximately $3 billion. Hundley received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor from Southern Illinois University. Lindsey A.L. Diedrich joined law firm Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC as an associate. Diedrich received her Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law and her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa. She concentrates her practice in real estate law, with a focus on sales, acquisitions, development and real estate finance. She has represented buyers, sellers, developers, landlords and tenants in a variety of real estate transactions. She is a member of the firm’s real estate and real estate finance practice groups Bob Ambrosius joined API Sheldon-Gold Realty Inc. Commercial Real Estate Services as senior adviser. He most recently was with Cresa Partners and brings 35 years of experience in office leasing and tenant representation to the commercial real estate firm. Ambrosius’ focus started with the southeast suburban market and business parks, including Denver Tech Center, Greenwood Plaza, Inverness, Panorama Park and Meridian, and branched into the downtown market, when he took an assignment at the Tabor Center and leased the property to 100 percent occupancy. At API Sheldon-Gold Realty, he will focus on expanding his service offerings to his clients to include user purchases of office buildings as well as leasing. Colorado Enterprise Fund appointed three new members to its board of directors: Haroun Cowans, executive director of Impact Empowerment Group, Heidi Ganahl, CEO of Camp Bow Wow, and Jay Spader, an attorney at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP. CEF provides loans up to $500,000 to small businesses and start-ups unable to secure traditional financing. CEF has loaned more than $46 million since 1990 to nearly 1,700 businesses. Chris Peter rejoined The Laramar Group, a national real estate investment and management company, as the regional vice president of operations over the firm’s Western region. Peter will be based in Laramar’s Denver corporate office. Peter has over 15 years of industry experience and is returning to Laramar after four years as managing director for Equity Residential in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to working for Equity Residential, Peter was a general manager for the Laramar Group in the Bay Area, managing a complex portfolio of REO/bank-owned assets. Prior to Laramar, Peter held the role of senior asset manager at Prana Investments, a real estate investment firm with operations in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.