Kevin McLennan
Vice Chairman, CBRE
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone (312) 861-7802
Specialties
Tenant Rep (Office)
Property Types
Office, Retail
Markets
Chicago, New York City, Nashville
Languages
English
Bio
McLennan advises publicly traded companies, private equity sponsors, and portfolio company management teams on complex real estate and capital structure decisions. His work spans leveraged buyouts, public-to-private conversions, and post-IPO real estate strategy across healthcare, industrial, life sciences, consumer, logistics, office, retail, specialty manufacturing, and mission-critical sectors.
Alongside business partner Paul Diederich, McLennan has led more than $15 billion in aggregate transactions, including over $12 billion in lease and structured occupancy transactions and more than $3 billion in capital markets activity.
Prior to joining CBRE, Kevin spent seven years at Studley where he was as a Senior Managing Director in their tenant representation group and focused on representing occupiers of real estate. Kevin has consistently been recognized as a market expert in both the downtown and suburban Chicago office markets and has written extensively on office market trends in local and national publications.
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