Gideon Gil serves as a Vice Chairman in Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets Group focused on raising debt and equity for client properties and development projects throughout New York City, and has collaborated on industrial, multi-family, self-storage and development projects nationally.  Mr. Gil leads the New York City Debt Capital Markets practice working with C&W’s Institutional and Private Capital Investment Sales Teams.  Mr. Gil has been an advisor to or a principal investor in over $25.0 billion of commercial real estate transactions throughout his career.  Mr. Gil joined C&W in 2012.  

Mr. Gil began his real estate career at Clarion Partners, working in the Acquisitions and Development Group rising to the level of Vice President.  From 2004 through 2008, Mr. Gil was a Portfolio Manager and Lead Originator at RCG Longview (now CenterSquare), a private equity fund focused on high-yield debt positions in commercial real estate.  Mr. Gil was a Managing Principal at Madison Realty Capital from 2008 through 2010 focused on purchasing distressed debt from financial institutions and originating high-yielding mortgage loans.  In 2010, Mr. Gil co-founded Columbia River Capital Advisors (“CRCA”) an advisor to Family Office clients and advised on the investment of over $100 million of equity into opportunistic debt and equity investments in commercial real estate. 

Mr. Gil holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a member of The Advisory Board of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School.