Jonathan Schaefler is a Managing Director on the Northern California Capital Markets team with Newmark. He leads the team’s equity structuring efforts and serves as the team’s chief liaison for overseas marketing campaigns. Previously, Schaefler was a real estate attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in their Los Angeles office, where he focused on representing large capital providers in joint venture transactions for office, multifamily, retail, and other product types. Schaefler also has extensive experience in corporate real estate transactions and sale leasebacks. He has structured and negotiated joint ventures for over 40 properties with an aggregate value of over $2.3 billion and has closed more than $3.1 billion in sale transactions encompassing more than 7 million square feet throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Schaefler splits his time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Partial list of sale transactions
Property | Location | Type | Value |
HQ @ First | San Jose, CA | Office | $429,000,000 |
Uptown Station | Oakland, CA | Office | $415,000,000 |
Treat Towers | Walnut Creek, CA | Office | $190,000,000 |
180 Grand Avenue | Oakland, CA | Office | $175,000,000 |
Market Square | San Jose, CA | Office | $141,350,000 |
123 Townsend Creekside @ 17 | San Francisco, CA Campbell, CA | Office Office | $140,000,000 $139,100,000 |
Murphy Crossing | Milpitas, CA | Office | $130,000,000 |
Seagate HQ | Cupertino, CA | Office | $107,500,000 |
Netflix HQ | Los Gatos, CA | Office | $85,000,000 |
Belvedere Place | Mill Valley, CA | Office | $70,500,000 |
260 Townsend | San Francisco, CA | Office | $66,000,000 |
Partial list of joint venture transactions
Camden Portfolio | Las Vegas, NV | Multi-Family | $630,000,000 |
63-67 Wall Street | New York, NY | Multi-Family | $430,000,000 |
San Francisco Ferry Building | San Francisco, CA | Retail | $291,000,000 |
Taj Hotel | Boston, MA | Hotel | $203,000,000 |
300 Lakeside | Oakland, CA | Office | $197,000,000 |
50 West San Fernando | San Jose, CA | Office | $166,500,000 |
Lafayette Parc Apartments | West Covina, CA | Multi-Family | $74,000,000 |
810 Third Avenue | Seattle, WA | Mixed-Use | $70,000,000 |
1402 3rd Avenue | Seattle, WA | Mixed-Use | $43,300,000 |
Universal Lofts | Los Angeles, CA | Multi-Family | $39,000,000 |
Marathon Towers | Los Angeles, CA | Multi-Family | $34,000,000 |
Professional licensing
- California Dept of Real Estate – Broker
- California State Bar – Member
- New York State Bar – Member
Education
- J.D., University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2010
- M.B.A., University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, 2010
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2004