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John Alascio

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John Alascio

Broker • United States


John Alascio is a Vice Chairman in the firm’s Equity, Debt & Structured Finance practice.  John is based in Cushman & Wakefield’s Manhattan offices and Co-Heads the National Industrial Debt and JV Equity practice as part of the Industrial Advisory Group. He is also responsible growing the firms Tri-State Equity, Debt, and Structured Finance platform. The team conducts transactions across all major U.S. markets.  

John has extensive expertise in structuring transactions involving single asset, portfolio, and entity level financing. He also works on highly structured equity deals including joint ventures, preferred equity, recapitalizations, and programmatic ventures.  

John’s experience spans property asset classes including industrial, office, retail and mixed use, multifamily, as well as specialty property types including cold storage, self-storage, and life sciences.  He has specialized expertise and experience in logistics and industrial real estate and related property uses including land and pre-development, speculative construction, build-to-suit financings, and large portfolios requiring senior and sub-debt structures, note on note financing, and SASB executions in the securitized markets. Over the course of his career, John and his team has been actively involved in the sourcing, underwriting and execution of over $50 billion in transaction volume. 

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, John spent the last 11 years in commercial banking and investment banking, working for Oberon Securities, USA Bank, and Lighthouse Business Group.  

Since joining Cushman & Wakefield in 2013, John and his team has successfully closed over $50B of equity, debt, and structured financed investments. Some notable financings include the $450MM financing and sale of the UPS warehouse facility in Bayonne, NJ on behalf of Lincoln Equities Group, the $285MM recapitalization and joint venture of National Capital Business Park in Washington D.C., the $208MM acquisition financing for Novo Nordisk’s North American headquarters in Princeton, NJ, arranging and syndicating a $200MM build to suit construction financing on behalf of Centene Corporation (CNC:US) in Clayton, MO, and securing $400MM of acquisition financing for 375 Hudson Street in New York, New York. Most recently John advised on ARES REIT IV $350,000,000 refinance of 24 industrial assets. John also advised on the $100MM financing of Merrill Lynch’s office campus in Hopewell, NJ, and was part of the team that executed Unilever North America’s Sale/Leaseback headquarter building that won NAIOP’s Deal of the Year honours in 2017.  

John received a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University in Political Science, and additional degrees in Criminology, and Italian.  He also completed additional studies at Lorenzo Di Medici in Florence, Italy, the New York Institute of Finance, and the Risk Management Association. 

John is an active member of the National MS Society, NY Stage & Film, as well commercial real estate affiliations through NAIOP, ULI, and NMHC. 

John is a founding board member of American Immobiliare, a not-for-profit organization focused on raising funds to support scholarships and mentorships in commercial real estate.  

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