New York People and Company News, Week of Dec. 12, 2025

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  • Newmark Group has hired Peter Trollope as Global Head of Occupier Solutions. A globally recognized real estate executive who has guided complex real estate strategies for some of the world’s largest corporations, Trollope will oversee the continued growth and evolution of Newmark’s integrated Occupier Solutions business.  
  • As part of its promotion of 27 lawyers to partner and 17 to counsel, King & Spalding promoted two New York-based real estate attorneys. Steven Mare represents banks, debt funds and other financial institutions in real estate finance transactions, while Alec Rubenstein represents institutional lenders, alternative capital providers, insurance companies, and debt funds in the origination of commercial real estate financings. 
  • CREW New York announces the newly appointed 2026 CREW New York Board of Directors. The 2026 leadership team includes Farrah Forbes, Kimco Realty Corporation (President-Elect), Maria Elefante, Arbor Realty Trust (Treasurer), and board directors Robin Landow, Landow & Landow Architects, Michelle Quirk, US Insurance Services, Allison Robin, Envoie Projects and Iris Rosa, CBRE.   
  • Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. announced that the Empire State Building has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification under the Existing Buildings: Operations + Maintenance Version 5 program, the highest level of recognition under the U.S. Green Building Council’s latest standard. The Empire State Building is the largest LEED v5 Platinum project in the United States and the first in the state of New York to earn this recognition. 
  • Lument Finance Trust, Inc. has closed LMNT 2025-FL3, a $663.8-million managed Commercial Real Estate Collateralized Loan Obligation. The company placed approximately $585 million of investment-grade securities with institutional investors, providing LFT with term financing on a non-mark-to-market, non-recourse basis. LMNT 2025-FL3 includes a 30-month reinvestment period, an advance rate of 88.1%, and a weighted average interest rate at issuance of Term SOFR plus 1.91%, before transaction costs. The initial collateral pool consists of 32 first-lien floating-rate mortgage loans and participations secured by 49 multifamily and commercial real estate properties located across the U.S.

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