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California People and Company News, Week of Jan. 3, 2025
- Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, a leading full-service law firm specializing in real estate, has elected three attorneys to the firm’s partnership, effective Jan. 1. They include Laura Cable (Los Angeles), a leading tax attorney whose practice focuses on income tax planning for real estate transactions; Robbie Hull (San Francisco), a leading land use, natural resources and environmental attorney; and Ira Klein (Los Angeles / San Francisco), a leading environmental attorney who represents developers in the remediation and redevelopment of complex contaminated properties.
- Lion Real Estate Group, LLC, a Dallas-headquartered real estate investment and asset management firm focused on acquiring value-add and opportunistic multifamily properties, hired Hunter Heatly as SVP of asset management in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He will lead Lion’s Asset Management department, focusing on optimizing portfolio performance, innovating strategies, and working closely with all teams to align efforts with the firm’s corporate vision across its U.S. portfolio. Most recently, Heatly was VP of asset management at Sares Regis.
- Transwestern Real Estate Services promoted Allan Shapiro to VP of construction & engineering, asset services for the firm’s Northern California region. Before joining Transwestern in 2022, Shapiro served as facility manager at ON Semiconductor and in roles at Swift Real Estate Partners, Carr America/Equity Office Properties and CBRE.
- Cushman & Wakefield added Tyler Epting, managing director and Kris Hagar, senior director in the Walnut Creek office. Focused primarily on the San Francisco East Bay market, including Contra Costa, Solano and Napa counties, Epting and Hagar will work as a collaborative team specializing in industrial, manufacturing, logistics, flex, and R&D leasing and sales transactions. Both join Cushman & Wakefield from Newmark.
- CBRE has bolstered its operations in the northern Baja-California region, adding Rafael Garcia-Roviros as an SVP who will establish a CBRE office in Tijuana. Garcia-Roviros and the team in Tijuana will provide enhanced services to CBRE’s clients on both sides of the border and deliver localized expertise in the growing region. He joins CBRE from Cushman & Wakefield, where he served as a managing director for Mexico.
- The board of CareTrust REIT, Inc. has appointed Lauren Beale as chief accounting officer, after serving in different leadership roles since the inception of CareTrust. The company also added Tri Tran as its newest SVP, investments. Additionally, CareTrust promoted Stephanie Singer to VP, financial reporting and Michael Sotelo to controller.
- Gary Smalley has become the CEO and a member of the board of directors of Tutor Perini Corporation, a leading civil, building and specialty construction company headquartered in Los Angeles. Smalley, formerly president, succeeds Ronald N. Tutor, who has transitioned to the role of executive chairman in a planned succession after serving as chairman and CEO since 2008.
- StoragePRO Management, Inc., an independent third-party property management company specializing in self-storage and headquartered in Walnut Creek, has acquired New York-based boutique storage management company Storage Investment Management, Inc. (SIMI). The acquisition of the SIMI portfolio of 20 managed properties adds 1 million square feet and more than 8,700 units to the StoragePRO Management portfolio.
- Fresno-based Wellpointe Inc. has selected Moss Adams as its independent auditor for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2024. It represents Wellpointe’s first external independent audit.
- ◦People
