Kevin McCarthy joins Cushman & Wakefield brokerage team

Commercial office broker Kevin J. McCarthy has joined Cushman & Wakefield Inc. as senior director at its Fairfield-Westchester office in Stamford, the commercial real estate firm announced.

McCarthy, whose real estate career began 11 years ago, had served as first vice president in the Westchester and Fairfield office of CBRE Group Inc. At Cushman & Wakefield he joins his brother, Michael J. McCarthy, an associate director in the firm”™s White Plains office.

The son of John R. McCarthy, a commercial broker in the region for more than four decades, McCarthy “has been a part of the industry way beyond 2005, when he first entered the business,” said James Fagan, managing principal of Cushman and Wakefield”™s Connecticut and Westchester offices. “He brings with him a high level of dedication, creativity and work ethic and we are pleased to have someone of his caliber join the firm.”

McCarthy has brokered several significant deals in the last decade, representing IBM Corp. in the sale of its 620,000-square-foot office complex at 1133 Westchester Ave. in White Plains; Goldman Sachs in its 125,000-square-foot lease deal in Greenwich, and 30 Glenn Street Associates in the sale of an 85,000-square- foot office building at 525 N. Broadway in White Plains to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

He also been national real estate advisor for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, headquartered in Rye Brook with more than 75 offices in North America, and for Nexant Inc, an energy innovation company based in San Francisco with more than 35 offices around the world.

A Villanova University graduate and lifelong White Plains resident, McCarthy in 2010 received the Westchester County Association”™s Young Professional of the Year award. He is a founding member of the WCA”™s Young Professionals organization, which has grown to more than 650 members.

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