Bruce Mosler (left), Ethan Silverman (top right), and Toby Dodd.
Bruce Mosler, Ethan Silverstein and Toby Dodd
Chairman of global brokerage; executive vice chair; chief revenue officer for the Americas at Cushman & Wakefield
Last year's rank: 22
It isn’t easy to become the year’s top broker at a firm with around 5,000 brokers globally, but Ethan Silverstein was able to do just that at Cushman & Wakefield in 2024.
“I’ve been here [since 2007 and] probably closed about 2,500 transactions,” Silverstein said. “But last year was really — I feel — the culmination of many years of hard work where things just aligned in one calendar year, and I became the company’s top broker.”
One of the biggest deals for C&W in 2024 was the 303,741-square-foot WeWork lease at Vornado Realty Trust’s 330 West 34th Street, which Silverstein and Bruce Mosler brokered alongside C&W’s Anthony LoPresti.
“Reintroducing WeWork to the marketplace was a significant thing,” Mosler said of the coworking giant that emerged from bankruptcy last June. “After all that they’ve been through under the leadership and a new CEO, I think we both took great pride in doing one of the largest transactions for them.”
On the landlord rep side of things, Mosler pointed to the success the firm has had at 245 Park Avenue, which is owned by SL Green Realty. “245 Park is a very important assignment that signifies what was happening in the broader sense on Park Avenue as a whole in seeing the lease-up at that building take place at the rate and pace that it did,” Mosler said.
Some leases at 245 Park from 2024 included the investment firm Ares Management expanding to 307,366 square feet within the building and business marketplace platform Tradeweb Markets inking a 15-year, 75,823-square-foot deal over the summer.
Cushman & Wakefield’s presence is, of course, national, but last year New York City was the standout in terms of office leasing, and the firm was on both sides of many deals throughout 2024, Chief Revenue Officer Toby Dodd said.
“New York was absolutely out front and was the real bright spot,” he said. “The office market performed incredibly well. We as a firm were involved in advising either the landlord or the tenant on half of the large transactions up and down both Park and Sixth avenues, which were two of the most active corridors in the office market. So we just dominated there again.”
