W. Bret Hardy | Executive Managing Director
Bret Hardy, CPA is Executive Managing Director and co-leader of the Integrated Real Estate Solutions (IRES) group. In this capacity, Mr. Hardy utilizes his nineteen plus years of real estate knowledge and expertise in structured finance products to optimize capital and tax and accounting aspects to assist corporate and institutional clients in maximizing real estate value.
Mr. Hardy’s professional strengths result from his strong background in corporate services and finance. Balancing the goals and objectives of corporate and institutional clients, which are often competing, serves as a basis for IRES’s services. In each of his assignments, Mr. Hardy assists clients in developing and evaluating real estate alternatives based on an assessment of the client’s operational needs, credit and specific strategic financial goals and objectives. He then provides and implements executable advice to maximize critical benefits including cash flow optimization, tax mitigation, GAAP/financial statement enhancement, and the most efficient deployment of the client’s capital resources. Mr. Hardy has successfully translated these skills and lessons learned from the private sector corporate clients, to implementation of real estate and financial advisory services in the public sector, including federal government, state and local municipal clientele.
RELATED PROJECTS | ASSIGNMENTS | EXPERIENCE
Colliers International, Executive Managing Director – Integrated Real Estate Solutions Group
Mr. Hardy joined Colliers International in 2001 and has provided direct consulting and transaction execution for both private and public sector clientele. Specific services include corporate real estate finance strategy development, real estate portfolio evaluation and due diligence coordination, project feasibility analysis and development underwriting, and real estate finance structuring, procurement and execution.
SELECTED REPRESENTATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
| Invensys plc |
128,000 SF HQ Early Lease Renewal |
| MCAS El Toro |
$649.5MM Online Auction Sale — 3,700 Acres, Irvine, CA |
| San Pedro Navy Housing |
$122MM Online Auction Sale — 62 Acres, Los Angeles, CA |
| Delphi Corporation |
$68.5MM Online Land Sale & Corporate BTL — Anaheim, CA |
| Lexicon Genetics |
$60MM HQ Sale/Leaseback Financing |
| AIC Ventures Portfolio |
$115.4MM Single Tenant Portfolio Sale — 11 Assets, Eastern US |
| Convergys Corporation |
750,000 SF HQ Relocation and Consolidation Financing |
| Judicial Counsel of CA |
Acquisition Advisory — 450 Facilities throughout CA |
| Phillips Petroleum |
$104.5MM HQ Sale/Leaseback Financing — Anchorage, AK |
| Fritz Companies |
$60.0MM Portfolio Sale/Leaseback Financing — Throughout US |
| Great Western |
$96.7MM Portfolio Sale/Leaseback Financing — Throughout US |
