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Ms. Copley is President and Founder of Copley Advisors, a
strategic real estate advisory and transaction services
firm. Ms. Copley is known for her experience, leadership,
strategic perspective, financial expertise, negotiating
skills and achieving outstanding results for her clients.
Experience:
Ms. Copley began her business career in 1983 as an associate
in banking with Citibank in Midtown Manhattan. Beginning in
1985, while attending evening graduate business school, Ms.
Copley worked full time as a venture capital financial
analyst for RBK Management in Chicago. Upon graduation from
business school, in 1988, Ms. Copley joined LaSalle
Partners, now Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), in Tenant
Representation.
Ms. Copley was with JLL for over 17 years. In 2002, she
became a JLL International Director. This top designation was
shared at the time by only 130 of JLL’s 17,000 + professionals.
Ms. Copley was Managing Director and Team Leader of JLL’s
largest tenant representation team, which closed over 20 million
RSF in transactions. She was Chairman of JLL’s Global Law Firm
Practice and was personally credited with a number of the firm’s
important client relationships and large complex transactions.
Ms. Copley was JLL’s strategic alliance Oversight Executive for
Foley & Lardner, GATX Corporation, Huron Consulting, Katten
Muchin Rosenman, Seyfarth Shaw and Sprint. Other important
clients included: Baker & Hostetler, Jones Day, PageNet,
Prudential, Unilever, UnitedHealth Group, and Vedder Price.
In 2005, Ms. Copley founded Copley Advisors, a firm designed
to be client focused and offering a strategic and in-depth
approach to real estate occupancy issues, free from conflicts of
interest. Ms. Copley is committed to providing the highest
quality tenant representation services in the industry and
outstanding results for her clients. Since 1989, Ms. Copley has
represented GATX Corporation, now a core client of Copley
Advisors, across multiple locations, including its 125,000 RSF
Chicago headquarters, a sale of GATX’s 60,000 RSF Eden’s Prairie,
Minnesota building, a 44,000 RSF sublease in San Francisco,
California, and two advisory assignments. Other current clients
include The Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, Consolidated
American Services, EF International Language Schools, European
Metal Recycling, First American Commercial Real Estate Services,
Mr. James J Glasser (Chairman Emeritus of GATX), Lannon, Lannon
& Barr, Ltd., Mason Avenue Investments, Matushek, Nilles &
Sinars, L.L.C., Michael J. Wilson & Associates, Integrys
(Peoples Gas), and Victorinox/Swiss Army.
Education, Licensing and Affiliations:
Ms. Copley holds an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. in economics from the University of
Michigan. She is a licensed Illinois Real Estate Broker.
Ms. Copley is a Board Member of the Boys and Girls Clubs of
Chicago, Vice Chairman and a Board Member of the International Association of
Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate (AECRE), and a
member of CoreNet Global, Chicago Chapter of CoreNet, and Lambda
Alpha International, a land economics society.
Industry Recognition:
2008:
- Panel Moderator on the General Market Overview at the
Real Estate Publishing Group's Downtown Office & Property
Management Conference (Chicago, IL); panelists from CB
Richard Ellis, Development Resources, Inc., Golub & Company,
Jones Lang LaSalle and Tishman Speyer.
- Panel Moderator on the Chicago Downtown Office Market at
the Real Estate Publishing Group’s Commercial Real Estate
Forecast (Chicago, IL); panelists from Colliers Bennett &
Kahnweiler, Hines, Jones Lang LaSalle, Tishman Speyer and
J.F. McKinney.
- Executive Women in Corporate Real Estate Leadership
Retreat (Harvard University) participant.
2007:
- Panelist at AECRE Fall Forum, “Landlord versus Tenant –
The Letter of Intent Battle”; panelists from Seyfarth Shaw,
Tishman Speyer, and former Equity Office Properties.
- Panelist at Property Development Due Diligence
Conference produced by Incremental Advantage; panelists from
Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP and S&B Construction Company, LLC.
- Panel Moderator on the Chicago Downtown Office Market at
the Real Estate Publishing Group’s Commercial Real Estate
Forecast (Chicago, IL); panelists from MB Real Estate, The
John Buck Company, Equis, Hines and Staubach.
- Executive Women in Corporate Real Estate Leadership
Retreat (New York City) participant.
2006:
- Named 2005 CoStar Power Broker.
- Panel Moderator at AECRE’s Annual Meeting (Santa Fe, NM)
on Maximizing Corporation’s Value of Excess Properties;
panelists from Prudential and Sprint.
- Panel Moderator at Executive Women in Corporate Real
Estate Leadership Retreat (Harvard University) on Generational
Issues and Real Estate; panelists from Microsoft, Google,
MTV, Viacom, and Hartford.
- Chicago CoreNet Panelist with BP Amoco and Rockwell
International on Supporting Business Objectives Through Real
Estate.
- Panel Moderator on the Chicago Downtown Office Market at
the Real Estate Publishing Group’s Commercial Real Estate
Forecast (Chicago, IL); panelists from The Prime Group, JF
McKinney Assoc., Staubach, and CBRE.
2005:
- Panelist at the Law Firm / Financial Services conference
of the Real Estate Communications Group.
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NAIOP Panelist on Downtown Chicago Market
Forecast
2004: Speaker
and Educator at the Association for Legal Administrators in
Jacksonville, Florida
2003: Named
one of Commercial Property News’ “Hottest Brokers”
2002: Speaker
at the Toronto Law Office Management Association Conference
Authorship:
- The Copley Advisor: The Chicago Real Estate Quarterly
Market Report for Tenants
- Ms. Copley has written and contributed to numerous real
estate articles in a variety of publications.
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