Greg Stampley (top left) and Justin Shepherd (top right); David Magnuson (bottom left) and Jessica Henning.
Greg Stampley, Justin Shepherd, David Magnuson and Jessica Henning
Managing director; directors at Eastdil Secured
Eastdil Secured claims to be the largest privately held commercial real estate investment bank in the world by sheer volume. At nearly $3 trillion worth of deals completed over the past 15 years, it’s hard to argue.
Yet four individuals on the firm’s West Coast team — Greg Stampley, Justin Shepherd, David Magnuson and Jessica Henning — personify that success, with tens of billions of dollars of financings and equity sales arranged and closed between them over the past several years. Each brings his or her own areas of expertise.
Aside from the odd $720 million, grocery-anchored retail portfolio refinancing brokered on behalf of investment firm Merlone Geier Partners earlier this year (which he arranged with Henning), Stampley primarily focuses on industrial and multifamily deals. That includes nearly $300 million in construction financing for Affinius Capital and McDonald Property Group’s The Hub @ ONT, a 4.3 million-square-foot industrial project at the Ontario, Calif., airport.
Then there’s Shepherd, who has led the charge on the firm’s growth in the medical and life sciences space. Most notable is his advising of Medical Properties Trust’s $1.2 billion sale of its majority stake in five Utah hospitals to a newly formed, yet unnamed, joint venture this past spring. Shepherd was also involved in the $57.7 million June sale of the 12-story office tower at 2020 Main Street in Irvine and the $45.7 million sale of the 34-story Symphony Towers in Downtown San Diego in September.
Along with luxury hotels and industrial assets, Magnuson specializes in creative office and studio projects, such as the $475 million fixed-rate mortgage he arranged in March for Worthe Real Estate Group and Stockbridge’s new Warner Bros. headquarters in Burbank.
Henning, meanwhile, focuses on retail, industrial and medical office building deals. Along with the Merelone Geier portfolio financing, Henning helped arrange nearly $1 billion in health care property and portfolio-level financing across Arizona, California and Washington state last year, according to Eastdil.
