March 19, 2025
Newmark announces the company has hired Chris Hope, a renowned General Partner (GP) Solutions advisor with nearly two decades of private market and secondary advisory experience, as Senior Managing Director in its Strategic Advisory division, where he will lead its General Partner Stakes and Capital Solutions business. In this new role, Hope will focus on helping real estate GPs secure innovative capital solutions, including selling minority stakes and raising Management Company preferred equity financing.
Hope, based in New York, will partner with Andrew Warin, Co-Head of Strategic Advisory and Liquidity Solutions, and report to Chad Lavender, President of Capital Markets for North America.
“Newmark continues to expand its comprehensive suite of capital markets services with strategic hires across the U.S.,” said Lavender. “Attracting top-tier professionals like Chris enhances our ability to deliver innovative capital solutions and drive the best possible outcomes for our clients.”
The GP stakes market has emerged as one of the fastest-growing segments in alternative investments, with over 140 GP stake or control acquisitions completed in 2024[1]. More than 15 dedicated GP stakes funds are actively raising over $30 billion to deploy into transactions[2].
“As we have worked on a number of general partner solutions-oriented mandates, more clients have asked us how they can scale their business through creative structures to generate liquidity and/or raise capital,” said Doug Harmon, Co-Head of U.S. Capital Markets.
“Our pipeline of GP solutions-oriented mandates is growing, highlighting how important it is we bring in dedicated resources to offer a deeper and more strategically oriented suite of advisory offerings for our clients,” added Jordan Roeschlaub, Co-President, Global Debt & Structured Finance. “Increasing our capabilities in GP financing allows Newmark to offer a deeper pool of debt, equity and liquidity solutions for a more diverse client base.”
Recent reports indicate that between 40% and 50% of limited partners (LPs) have allocated capital to GP stakes funds[3], with Sovereign Wealth Funds increasingly interested in direct GP stake transactions. These transactions offer investors enhanced alignment with managers, recurring revenue and preferential co-investment access. GPs benefit from strategic growth capital, LP capital for fund expansion and liquidity solutions for succession planning.
“The primary objective of our practice is to help our clients continue to scale from a capital formation perspective,” said Warin. “Chris’s expertise will strengthen our ability to address the evolving needs of GPs and provide comprehensive guidance tailored to their goals.”
Hope brings over 18 years of private market and secondary advisory experience, with a proven track record of arranging debt and equity solutions for GPs including NAV loans, preferred equity financings, Collateralized Fund Obligation (“CFO”) securitizations, fund restructurings, captive spin-outs and asset and fund level capital raises. He has advised on over $8 billion of secondary market debt and equity transactions for institutions and private clients across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Before joining Newmark, Hope led CFO equity distribution for Evercore. Prior, he was at PJT Park Hill as an original member of their secondary advisory unit, and also previously worked for Blackstone.
“I look forward to joining Newmark,” said Hope. “GP stakes have become an established and investible asset class in the corporate private equity market and are going to become increasingly relevant in the real estate industry and for our clients.”
[1]
Pitchbook, US Public PE and GP Deal Roundup
[2]
https://www.bfinance.com/insights/gp-stakes-funds-seek-us-30bn-with-promise-of-private-equity-plus-yield
[3]
McKinsey & Company’s Global Private Markets Report 2025
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Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries (“Newmark”), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark’s comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform’s global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2024, Newmark generated revenues of over $2.7 billion. As of December 31, 2024, Newmark and our business partners together operated from approximately 170 offices with more than 8,000 professionals across four continents. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
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