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Fred Smith

Vice Chairman

New York - Headquarters
Fred Smith - Newmark
E: fred.smith@nmrk.com P: 212-372-0728
  • NY RE License #30SM0670703
  • Tenant Representation
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Fred Smith serves as a Vice Chairman with Newmark at the company’s New York headquarters. Over the course of his 38-year career, Smith has completed more than 30 million square feet of tenant representation assignments for major organizations.

Smith joined Newmark in 2016 after 31 years with Cushman & Wakefield, where he most recently served as vice chairman. During his tenure at Cushman & Wakefield, Smith closed the ninth-largest real estate transaction in the U.S. and the largest sale leaseback in Silicon Valley history, as well as the largest transatlantic transaction ever between C&W’s U.S. and European operations. He is the recipient of C&W’s 2003 Global Deal of the Year Award, Downtown Deal of the Year Award and various top producer awards.

Partial Client List

  • Air France
  • Anbang Insurance Group
  • AT&T
  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
  • BayernLB
  • CBS Corporation
  • Daiwa Bank & Trust Co.
  • Facebook
  • General Services Administration
  • Macromedia
  • Metropolitan Transit Authority
  • Molloy College
  • Oracle
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
  • Suntory International Corp.
  • Univision
  • XL Global Services
  • Young & Rubicam

Representative Engagements

  • XL Capital – Consolidation and headquarters strategy
  • Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse – Assisted with merger and national portfolio of 8.0 million SF
  • Silicon Graphics – 800,000 SF corporate campus sale to Goldman Sachs in Mountain View, CA
  • Sycamore Partners – Sale leaseback of Talbots headquarters and distribution center, collectively 846,000 SF
  • The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Mitsubishi Financial Group – 715,000 SF, including two headquarters, each in excess of 200,000 SF
  • Anbang Insurance Group – Exclusive leasing agents for 717 Fifth Avenue
  • CBS Interactive – 285,000 SF headquarters lease restructure
  • BayernLB – 100,000 SF lease restructure and sale of 25% stake in 560 Lexington Avenue
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd. – Termination and swap of a 53,000 SF lease for 45,000 SF
  • General Services Administration – 10-year, 25,000 SF lease for elite enforcement agency in New York City
  • Molloy College – 15-year, 16,540 SF lease for its first New York City campus, at 50 Broadway
  • Suntory International Corp. – 10-year, 5,250 SF lease at 600 Third Avenue

Consulting Assignments

  • Sears Holdings – Valued and advised for transfer of 261 stores totaling 42.0 million SF into a REIT, Seritage Growth Properties. Sears raised approximately $2.7 billion
  • Sycamore Partners – Valued and advised for the acquisition of Belk Dept. stores, 299 locations, 19 states
  • Bell Canada – Led a Capital Markets and Canadian team to formulate a broker opinion of value for 10.0 million SF portfolio
  • CBS (Paramount Theme Parks) – Valued five properties, 1,950 acres owned, 108 acres leased, U.S. and Canada

Personal Affiliations

  • Founder, Light Up New York
  • Member, St. Lawrence University Parents Committee
  • Member, Parent’s Club, Southern Methodist University
  • Volunteer, New York Youth at Risk
  • Former parent volunteer, Middlebury College, Tulane University and Texas Tech University

Education

Smith is a designated Certified Commercial Investment Member. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from the City University of New York and has attended courses at New York University’s School of Continuing Education for Real Estate and Finance.

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