Jeffrey M. Bramson

Career summary

Jeff is a Senior Managing Director and co-head of the Los Angeles office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joined JLL as part of the HFF acquisition in 2019 and, at the time, was responsible for overseeing the investment advisory business in Chicago for HFF. Jeff relocated to Los Angeles in January 2022 to continue his role as co-leader of the LA Capital Markets office specializing in investment sales advisory throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

Since joining HFF in 2005, he has closed more than $13 billion of investment advisory transactions. Jeff became the co-head of the Chicago office in 2014 and oversaw the business which more than doubled gross revenues during his tenure. Throughout this time, Jeff worked on notable, record-setting transactions such as the Blackstone/Equity Office Properties portfolio sale, 300 North LaSalle and the McDonald's Global Headquarters building.

Jeff has been in the real estate transaction business since 1990. Prior to joining HFF, he was a co-founder and partner at Cooper Conlin Partners, where he specialized in investment brokerage for Chicago and other Midwest cities. Prior to that, he was a senior director of acquisitions and development with Tishman Speyer Properties, director of acquisitions for Equity Office Properties Trust and a vice president of capital markets at JMB Realty Corporation.

In addition to his transaction advisory role, Jeff is also a former adjunct professor at the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Jeff is a Global Governing Trustee for the Urban Land Institute. He is a current member of the Advisory Board for TopMed Realty, a value-oriented private equity firm focused on healthcare real estate. Jeff is also an advisory board member of the Lusk Center for Real Estate Research at the University of Southern California.