Services provided by the Savills Corporate Finance unit include capital markets and strategic planning, restructuring and distressed situation advisory along with debt, equity and note sales assignments.  Mr Hayes will focus primarily on the Asia Pacific markets, whilst working closely with Savills’ global capital markets network.

Prior to joining Savills, Mr. Hayes spent ten years with Citigroup’s Capital Markets and Banking division where he served as a banker in New York and eventually established Citigroup’s commercial real estate lending business in Japan. His real estate finance experience has encompassed a variety of transaction roles including structured finance, M&A advisory, recourse and non-recourse lending, syndicated lending and securitization. 

Chris Mancini, CEO of Savills Japan K.K., says: "This is great news for our business. Kelly Hayes’ arrival in Asia Pacific adds to Savills growing global corporate finance offering.  He will be working closely with our European and US offices to build a solid real estate finance advisory business.”

“Given the massive changes that are underway in the real estate capital markets we anticipate a robust demand for these services going forward.”

Robert McKeller, CEO of Savills Asia Pacific added: “Kelly brings a range of skill sets and experience to our business that we need if we are to deliver a comprehensive service offering to our clients in Asia Pacific in these rapidly changing markets. I am delighted to have him on board.'”

Mr. Hayes said: "I am delighted to be joining the Savills Japan team and very much look forward to building Savills' corporate finance advisory practice across Asia Pacific. My new role should provide an excellent platform from which to develop an advisory practice with real scale and, most importantly, provide value to our clients"