Senior Managing Director Leo Paytas joined 星空体育app下载鈥檚 Rutherford, New Jersey, office in 2018. Paytas has more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience, representing tenants and landlords globally. Paytas鈥� vast real estate expertise includes working on behalf of tenants and landlords in the financial, insurance and legal industries. This expertise combined with his Fortune 500 company relationships offers a unique value to the client. In the last two years, Paytas has represented clients in either the sale or lease of more than 2.4 million square feet, with a total market value of $264 million.
Paytas has managed the accounts of a number of household name companies. These include Prudential鈥檚 7 million-square-foot portfolio, for which he oversaw real estate transaction activities including acquisitions, dispositions and sales. His previous account management experience also includes services on behalf of a notable confidential insurance client, which were instrumental during the strategic reduction of its real estate portfolio, generating significant cost savings.
Partial List of Transactions
- Celgene: 1.5 million SF
- Equinix: 355,000 SF
- Cuisenaire Co. of America (Orange, NY): 298,000 SF
- Maersk (Madison, NJ) 146,000 SF
- Confidential Financial Client: 117,000 SF
- RXR Realty (Madison, NJ) 113,000 SF
Partial Client List
- Ameriprise
- Benfield Holdings, Inc.
- Ceridian
- Continental Airlines
- Chubb Insurance
- DLA Piper
- GMAC
- Healthstar
- R3
- Merrill Lynch
- MetLife
- Intel
- Plainfield Asset Management
- Prudential Insurance
- Schering-Plough
- Schlesinger Associates
- TA Associates
- TigerRisk
- Thacher Proffitt & Wood
- Varagon
Professional Experience
- Licensed real estate broker, state of New Jersey
- Licensed real estate salesperson, state of New York
Education
Paytas holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.