Wednesday, December 8, 2010

HFF expands national hotel group with addition of Holden Lim in San Francisco office

 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that Holden Lim (top right photo) has joined the firm as a managing director in their San Francisco office and will focus on institutional grade hotel and resort property transactions throughout North America.

Mr. Lim has more than 21 years of experience and most recently was the president of Hospitality Link, a real estate advisory firm specializing in the hospitality sector.

 Prior to that, he was a senior director with Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman where he completed more than $3.4 billion in real estate transactions, representing a variety of structures including dispositions, debt financings and equity recapitalizations.

 Prior to Cushman, Mr. Lim was a senior associate at HVS International where he appraised more than $1.9 billion in hotel and resort real estate.  Mr. Lim has also held various management positions at Westin Hotels.  He has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of California.

“We are very excited to welcome Holden to our growing hotel team, and look forward to his contributions to the growth of our platform in 2011 and beyond,” said Daniel Peek (lower left photo), senior managing director and hotel practice leader at HFF. 

“He brings a tremendous amount of hotel sector experience to our team, something that will benefit our firm greatly.” 

“The recruitment of Holden Lim is another step in a substantial commitment HFF has to growing our hotel practice and our West Coast platform,” added Bruce Ganong, senior managing director and co-head of the HFF San Francisco office.


Contacts:
 Daniel Peek, HFF Senior Managing Director, (305) 448-1333, dpeek@hfflp.com
 Bruce Ganong, HFF Senior Managing Director, (415) 276-6300 bganong@hfflp.com
Kristen M. Murphy, Associate Director, Marketing, (713) 852-3500,  krmurphy@hfflp.com

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