Real estate finance expert Clint Frease has joined Newmark as vice chairman, responsible for leading Newmark’s debt capital markets efforts across Texas and the Central Region, as well as providing national debt advisory for the Data Center Capital Markets team. Frease will focus on debt placement, structured finance and loan sales, further expanding Newmark’s leading debt advisory services across data centers, industrial, retail, hospitality, multifamily and office.
Based in Dallas, Frease will report to Newmark’s Co-Presidents of Global Debt & Structured Finance Jordan Roeschlaub and Jonathan Firestone and will work closely with U.S. senior capital markets executives. He will also collaborate closely with Brent Mayo, leader of Newmark’s Data Center and Digital Infrastructure Capital Markets practice. His addition bolsters Newmark’s debt capital markets presence in Texas, where he will work with Senior Managing Directors Chris McColpin and Andrew Porteous and Director Josh Francis. The strategic hiring follows the expansion of Newmark’s industrial, office and retail capital markets practices in Texas over the past year.
“The opportunity to hire industry experts with such impressive track records is a testament to our growth trajectory and the talent we’ve amassed in our Capital Markets business,” said Chad Lavender, president of capital markets for North America. “Our commitment to providing comprehensive, differentiated and strategic guidance to our clients remains at the forefront of our strategy, and bringing on Clint further enhances the depth of our capabilities.”
Frease brings two decades of in-depth knowledge and experience covering the placement, origination and structuring of commercial mortgage-backed securities, balance sheet loans, mezzanine and preferred equity financings, construction loans, bridge loans and structured financings. He has executed more than $75 billion of commercial real estate financing, loan sales and structured transactions on behalf of institutional and private clients across the U.S. Before joining Newmark, Frease served as managing director at Eastdil Secured in the Dallas and Washington D.C. offices. Prior, he was at Wells Fargo Bank in the real estate capital markets group, where he originated CMBS loans. He was also a member of the Special Situations Group, focusing on managing a highly distressed commercial real estate loan portfolio.
