About John

John Gray brings more than 38 years of experience in commercial real estate, specializing in landlord and tenant representation, sales, and capital markets. Over the past five years, he has played a key role in some of the largest transactions in the New York area, including:

• Amherst, Multiple Locations – 100,000 sf
• ICAP Partners, Jersey City – 125,000 sf
• Bottega Veneta, Inc., New York – 24,000 sf
• J.P. Morgan Chase, New York – 300,000 sf
• CUNY, New York – 137,119 sf
• Lord Abbett, Jersey City – 150,000 sf
• C.V. Starr & Co. LLC, New York – 243,254 sf
• NewsCorp, New York – 800,000 sf
• Enstar, Multiple Locations – 200,000 sf
• Ropes & Gray, New York – 250,000 sf
• Financial Security Assurance, New York – 120,000 sf
• Wasserstein Perella, New York – 130,000 sf

In addition, John has represented more than 4 million square feet of building agencies, including 1211 Avenue of the Americas (1.9 msf), One Pepsi Way (600,000 f), Battle House Tower (700,000 sf), and 740 Madison Avenue (24,000 sf).

Education

Groton School and Hobart College

Affiliations and awards

• Member of the Real Estate Board of New York
• New York Real Estate Board Robert T. Lawrence Award (1999)
• New York Real Estate Board Henry Hart Rice Award (2005)
• Among the Top 100 Brokers at one of the top three estate companies in 2014
• Recognized as one of the “Top 25 Brokers” in the United States
• Three-time recipient of the Real Estate Board of New York “Deal of the Year”
  • Restructuring of 1301 Avenue of the Americas
  • Ropes and Gray/NewsCorp/JP Morgan Chase Transaction at 1211 Avenue of the Americas
  • 740 Madison Avenue

Client list

• Arbed Americas, Inc.
• Chase/USI
• Chrysler Corporation
• Citibank
• Gannet Company (now known as USA TODAY Co.)
• Generale Bank
• Gen RE
• GRP Records
• J.H. Whitney & Company (now known as J.H. Whitney Capital Partners)
• Kleinwort Benson
• Lee Hecht Harrison
• MassMutual
• Mayer Brown LLP
• Merrill Lynch
• New York Life Insurance Company
• Penn Corp. Financial
• Pittsburgh National Bank
• Reuters America, Inc.
• Scholastic Corporation Scholastic Inc.
• Siemens Corporation
• Stone Consolidated Container Corp.
• Sulzer, Inc.
• SITA
• Westdeutsche Landesbank
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation
• Xerox