
Industry Veteran Adrian Lee Joins Tishman Speyer’s New Singapore Office as Part of Its Asia Pacific Growth and Diversification Strategy
Tishman Speyer today announced that industry veteran Adrian Lee will join the firm’s recently-established Singapore office as Senior Director of Acquisitions. The announcement comes as the firm grows its presence in the Asia Pacific region with seasoned investment professionals.
Lee joins Tishman Speyer with more than 15 years of experience in Asia Pacific and an established global real estate transactions track record totaling close to USD 4 billion. In his new role, Lee will source and execute new investment opportunities across a wide range of asset classes in Asia Pacific, including the office, retail, industrial, life sciences and multi-family sectors.
Lee most recently served as Director, Head of Investments and Asset Management at AEW Asia, where he was responsible for AEW’s investment and asset management functions in Singapore as well as supporting the capital raising efforts for the firm. Prior to AEW, Lee had served as Head of Real Estate Investments at Homax, and Director and Portfolio Manager at UBS Asset Management. He also held leading investment positions at PGIM Real Estate and Union Investment.
Lee will report to Managing Director, Graham Mackie, who was appointed in June 2022 to spearhead Tishman Speyer’s Asia Pacific expansion beyond its long-established operations in China and India.
“The addition of Adrian to our Singapore office is an important milestone in the build-out of our Asia Pacific investment platform,” said Mackie. “Adrian brings a deep understanding of the region, excellent relationships and an impressive investment track record across gateway cities in Asia Pacific.”
Mackie and Lee are joined in Tishman Speyer’s Singapore office by Director Jian An Tan, who came to the firm in October 2022 from real estate equity fund manager Gaw Capital Partners. Tishman Speyer is also working to add investment professionals to source acquisitions for its offices in Japan, South Korea and Australia. In each region, Tishman Speyer will focus on core, value-add and opportunistic investments, as well as brown-to-green office refurbishments in the region’s gateway cities.
Tishman Speyer has been active in China for well over a decade. Led by Senior Managing Director Wilson Chen, Tishman Speyer’s China portfolio of existing assets and development projects encompasses 19.4 million square feet. Major developments include The Springs in Shanghai, which will feature 10 million square feet of offices, residences, hotels, restaurants, retail, entertainment and cultural venues, and Chang’an Mills, a former Beijing manufacturing plant that has been transformed into a vibrant mixed-use office and retail campus.
In India, Tishman Speyer has developed 5.2 million square feet of mixed-used projects since 2006, including WaveRock, a 2.5 million-square-feet sustainable office campus in Hyderabad. Tishman Speyer recently entered into a strategic partnership with Axis Asset Management Company on a new fund and strategy to develop office buildings that are future-proof and ecologically efficient across key cities of India.
About Tishman Speyer (tishmanspeyer.com)
Tishman Speyer is a leading owner, developer, operator and investment manager of first-class real estate in 33 key markets across the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Our portfolio spans market rate and affordable residential communities, premier office properties and retail spaces, industrial facilities, and mixed-use campuses. We create state-of-the-art life science centers through our Breakthrough Properties joint venture, and foster innovation through our strategic proptech investments. With global vision, on-the-ground expertise and a personalized approach, we are unparalleled in our ability to foster innovation, quickly adapt to global and local trends and proactively anticipate our customers’ evolving needs. By focusing on health and wellness, enlightened placemaking and customer-focused initiatives such as our tenant amenities platform, ZO., and our flexible space and co-working brand, Studio, we tend not just to our physical buildings, but to the people who inhabit them on a daily basis. Since our inception in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed, and operated 525 properties, totaling 218 million square feet, with a combined value of over $129 billion (U.S.). Our current portfolio includes such iconic assets as Rockefeller Center in New York City, The Springs in Shanghai, TaunusTurm in Frankfurt and the Mission Rock neighborhood currently being realized in San Francisco.