LA Capital Markets & CRE Finance

Mike Hu has over 14 years of real estate and management consulting experience and currently leads the Capital Markets team in the US. He is currently based in the LA office (Gaw USA headquarters) and is responsible for capital formation, co-investments, investor relations and marketing. He joined Gaw in 2011 and was previously a member of Gaw Capital Partners’ acquisitions and investment team based in Hong Kong (the global headquarters), and formerly worked for Tishman Speyer as part of their Leadership Development Program. While at Tishman Speyer, he completed rotations in their London and New York offices, working in acquisitions, debt financing/restructuring, property and asset management, and design & construction. Prior to business school, Mike was a strategy and operations consultant for five years focused primarily on the real estate and energy industries. He has significant experience working in Asia, Europe, and the US. Mike is conversationally fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics/International Area Studies with college and Latin honors from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Master of Business Administration from London Business School.

Jaime Zadra is a Managing Director with PGIM Real Estate. In this role, she is responsible for managing originations for the Western region through a broad range of the company’s commercial mortgage products, including the General Account, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, and core-plus financing. Additionally, Jaime has portfolio management responsibilities, including pricing and credit authority, for the company’s core mortgage portfolios in the Bay Area, Portland, and Seattle. Jaime is located in Los Angeles. Since joining the company in 2004, Jaime has originated more than $10 billion of loans across all property types and all of PGIM Real Estate’s capital sources. Jaime was named as a Managing Director in 2019. Earlier, she served as a Principal and for 10 years was the originations team lead for Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. Jaime started her career at PGIM Real Estate as an Associate covering relationships in San Diego and Los Angeles. Jaime earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology/public policy analysis from Pomona College and her Master of Business Administration degree in finance and real estate from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is a member of the ULI LA Capital Markets Council, a WLI Circle, and the UCLA Real Estate Alumni Group Endowment Circle.

Keith J. Pollock is a real estate partner in our Los Angeles office whose practice involves a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, with a particular focus on leasing, the acquisition and disposition of individual properties and portfolios, and borrower side real estate finance. Keith's clients include investment companies, pension funds, banks, real estate investment trusts and other owners and operators of real estate throughout the country. In connection with his leasing practice, Keith represents both landlords and tenants in office, retail, industrial, medical, shopping center and other mixed-use projects throughout California, Colorado, Arizona, New York and various other states. Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Keith practiced in New York as a real estate associate with Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP and then Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP.