Colvill Team Departs Cushman & Wakefield For Rival Firm
Five years after Cushman & Wakefield acquired Colvill Office Properties, the major players from the former landlord representative firm have left to join a rival brokerage.
Chip Colvill has joined Partners Real Estate as an equity partner, along with Michael Anderson, Win Haggard and Damon Thames, Partners announced. Brad Beasley, Diana Bridger and Connor Saxe also joined the firm as senior vice presidents.
All seven new Partners team members left Cushman & Wakefield and had previously worked for Colvill Office Properties. That company, which Colvill founded in 2001, handled direct leasing and marketing for 17M SF of Class-A office space in Houston at the time of acquisition.
“This latest addition also further validates Partners’ unique equity partnership structure at the top level and the ability for our professionals to leverage the investment and development side of the business,” Partners CEO Jon Silberman said in a statement.
Eleven brokers and nine employees from Colvill's firm joined Cushman & Wakefield following the 2020 acquisition. Colvill didn't respond to a request for comment. Cushman & Wakefield declined to comment.
Partners Real Estate is a full-service CRE firm with brokerage, property management, development and investment arms that ranks as Houston’s third-largest brokerage shop. It has been on a growth trajectory since it severed ties with NAI Global in 2022.
The firm opened an Atlanta office in March 2024, hiring Cushman & Wakefield's former U.S. multifamily capital markets president, John O’Neill, to lead the launch. The firm poached another Atlanta office brokerage team from Cushman & Wakefield in September.
Partners leased a bigger office space for its Houston headquarters last year, saying at the time that the firm had doubled in size over the previous half-decade. Partners has been “laser-focused on adding the industry’s top talent,” the company said in Wednesday's news release.
