LaSalle Investment Management (“LaSalle”), leading global real estate investment manager with approximately $40 billion assets under management, today announced the appointment of Mark Gabbay as International Director and Chief Investment Officer for Asia Pacific.  He will be based in LaSalle’s Hong Kong office.  Mr Gabbay joins LaSalle after spending more than 12 years in Asia, most recently with Lehman Brothers as Managing Director and Co-Head of Real Estate for Asia Pacific and a transition stint with Nomura International.    

Commenting on the appointment, Jack Chandler, LaSalle Asia Pacific CEO, said: “We are delighted that after an extensive global search Mark will join us as a terrific supplement to our existing management team.  His experience across the region in both debt and equity investing will increase the capacity of our Acquisition team to source and structure the broad range of opportunities we are seeing in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis.  We expect that the next few years should be very attractive vintage years for real estate investments in the region and look forward to Mark's assistance in helping us deliver superior performance for our investors.

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LaSalle Investment Management, Inc., a member of the Jones Lang LaSalle group (NYSE: JLL), is a leading global real estate investment manager, with approximately $40 billion of assets under management. LaSalle Investment Management is active across a range of real estate capital and operating markets including private and public, debt and equity. For more information, visit www.lasalle.com.