Jonathan Schaefler
Senior Managing Director at Newmark Knight Frank
- Role
- Senior Managing Director at Newmark
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Senior Managing Director
Oct 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
o Facilitate transaction negotiations, advise on market norms, brainstorm solutions, and resolve communication and conceptual disconnects between transaction parties and respective legal counselso Direct operations of 15-person real estate brokerage investment sales team responsible for over $8.3 bb in sales across 80 office, life science, R&D, and covered land transactions during 4-year period o Collaborated with firm’s foreign capital team to travel on two overseas road shows, generating $950 mm in saleso Execute marketing processes, including investor outreach, leading tours, briefing clients, revising materialso Formulate and implement new business strategies with head of brokerage team, leading to doubling of annual team revenue and increasing market share 67% between 2018 and 2021o Streamlined deal execution process and overhauled team structure, yielding increased deal throughput and improved employee retention while reducing partner headcount and maintaining near static fixed costsRepresentative Transactions- Gilman Gateway: Berkeley, CA;$34.0 mm; July 2023; Pension Trustees🡪HNWI; Personally sourced industrial covered land from receiver and aggregated with adjacent properties into 10.5-acre campus- Moffett Green: Sunnyvale, CA;$867.5 mm; June 2022; Tishman Speyer→Commonwealth Partners; Metaverse headquarters; largest single asset deal in Silicon Valley history; REIT insurance- Shops at Tanforan: San Bruno, CA;$128 mm; November 2021; Seritage→ARE; marketed joint venture to redevelop property, sold into land aggregation to develop $1.5 bb life science and multifamily - HQ@First: San Jose, CA;$535mm; July 2021; Mori Trust→KKR; represented foreign seller in first disposition of US asset, significant liaising between parties to manage cultural disconnects- Uptown Station: Oakland CA;$419 mm; March 2021; CIM Group→Mapletree Investments; Square headquarters; marketed in foreign capital roadshow, foreign buyer’s first purchase on West Coast
Education
University of California, Berkeley
BA, History
2000 — 2004
USC Marshall School of Business
MBA
2008 — 2010
USC Gould School of Law
Juris Doctor
2006 — 2010
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