James Evans Joins Talmage as Managing Director

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Talmage, LLC announced today the hiring of James Evans as Managing Director. Evans will be responsible for the company's capital markets activities with a particular focus on fundraising. In addition to these roles, Evans will assist with the origination of large loan special servicing opportunities, development and marketing of future Talmage offerings and implementation of Talmage's Investor Relations program.

Edward L. Shugrue III, Chief Executive Officer of Talmage and Evans have a long-standing relationship that began with the formation of Sam Zell's Capital Trust CT in 1997.

“We are thrilled and delighted to have James Evans on the Talmage team as we continue to grow our business and expand our footprint,” said Shugrue.

Evans brings nearly 30 years of experience in the institutional real estate industry. Over the course of his career, he has led or participated in capital markets offerings totaling more than $3 billion. In addition to his capital markets experience, Evans has lent or invested more than $1 billion of capital in a broad range of real estate products, markets and structures.

Talmage is an active investor in, and advisor/special servicer on, large and complex commercial real estate transactions. Since 2003, Talmage has made in excess of $10 billion of commercial real estate fixed income investments, acted as the special servicer on $10 billion of transactions and advised on more than $30 billion of loan restructurings and modifications. Talmage is independently owned and offers conflict-free advice to its institutional clients.