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Keefe joins HFF as a director in the Boston office

Boston, MA According to Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF), Patrick Keefe has joined the firm as a director focused on debt and equity placement transactions in the city office. 

Keefe has more than 10 years of experience in commercial real estate lending and joins HFF from M&T Bank where he was a vice president – relationship manager. Prior to M&T, he held similar roles at First Niagara Bank and TD Bank and was involved in nearly $1 billion of commercial real estate transactions during this time. Keefe began his commercial real estate career as a financial analyst intern at CBRE Global Investors. He is a program committee member for REFA and is a council member on ULI’s Housing and Economic Development Council. 

Mr. Keefe received his Master of Business Administration degree from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College and received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University.

“Patrick has established himself within the Boston commercial real estate community as a well-respected, hard-working, client-centric individual,” said Lauren O’Neil Goff, senior managing director and co-head of HFF’s Boston office. “His integrity and client-first mentality are a perfect fit with the HFF culture and we are excited to have him as part of the team.”

HFF and its affiliates operate out of 25 offices and are a leading provider of commercial real estate and capital markets services to the global commercial real estate industry. HFF, together with its affiliates, offers clients a fully integrated capital markets platform including debt placement, investment advisory, equity placement, funds marketing, M&A and corporate advisory, loan sales and loan servicing. 

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