James Travers

Principal

Cresa

THE LATEST: Travers specializes in tenant representation. His clients include AIG SunAmerica, Bank of the West, California Bank & Trust, Colony Capital, Edmunds.com, Gensler, Hogan Lovells, Houlihan Lokey, Lions Gate Entertainment, PennyMac, Preferred Bank, Broad Foundation, Warner Music Group, Wells Fargo, Western Asset Management, the W.M. Keck Foundation, TCW, Jeffer Mangels, Freeport-McMoRan, Macerich, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Leonard Green & Partners.

BACKGROUND: Travers founded Travers Realty Corp. in 1978 and served as company chairman until 2014, when the firm merged with Cresa Partners to form Travers Cresa. Travers Realty successfully negotiated more than $12 billion in real estate transactions. Travers has said that one of his career highlights was representing SunAmerica Life Insurance Co. for more than 20 years and relocating the company to the top of 1999 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, in a move that included top-of-the-building signage. Travers is a founder of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and a member of the executive committee, governing board at FIDM.

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