Chris Edmonds to Head City National Bank’s Commercial and Corporate Banking

City National Bank has announced the appointment of Chris Edmonds as executive vice president and head of commercial and national corporate banking, where he will lead the strategy and execution across the bank’s middle market and large corporate client segments nationwide. In this role, he will be responsible for driving business growth, deepening client relationships and guiding high-performing teams across key markets. Edmonds has more than 20 years of financial services industry experience and a solid track record of delivering results. He will be based in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Reed Smith Appoints Benjamin Fliegel as L.A. Office Managing Partner

Global law firm Reed Smith has appointed Benjamin Fliegel as the new office managing partner of its Los Angeles office. He succeeds Jennifer Terry, who led the office through a successful relocation, fostered a culture of collaboration and provided critical support during the L.A. wildfires. Terry will return to her full-time practice as a leading employment partner. Fliegel represents policyholders in major disputes with their insurance carriers and is widely respected for his deep understanding of juries and judges, as well as his pragmatic approach to advancing clients’ business objectives. Prior to joining Reed Smith, he worked as an assistant district attorney of Bronx County, N.Y. and clerked for the Hon. Sandra J. Feuerstein of the Eastern District of New York. Fliegel is a native Angeleno with active practices in both California and New York.

Cushman & Wakefield Names Chase Tagen Managing Director

Cushman & Wakefield has announced that the real estate services firm has hired Chase Tagen as a managing director in the firm’s national debt & equity practice. Based in the firm’s Century City office, he will play a vital role in delivering strategic advisory and liquidity solutions for Cushman & Wakefield’s clients. With over 12 years of capital markets experience, Tagen has executed more than $30 billion in capital markets transactions, including programmatic joint ventures, recapitalizations, GP-led secondaries, GP stakes and capital raising efforts across a broad spectrum of asset classes. His work spans platform capitalizations, portfolio transactions and single-asset equity raises, demonstrating his versatility and expertise in the industry.

JLL Names Scott Smith Senior Director

JLL’s Value and Risk Advisory platform announced that Scott Smith has joined the firm as a senior director based in Los Angeles. As part of the West Region multi-housing team, he will focus primarily on California multi-housing property appraisals. Smith joins JLL from Curtis-Rosenthal, Inc., where he was an associate director and a commercial real estate appraiser. During his more than 20-year career, he has worked as a review appraiser at First Republic Bank, a multi-family appraiser at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and a generalist at other independent appraisal firms. Smith’s experience ranges from small privately owned individual properties to large institutionally owned multi-property portfolios, working with a variety of clients, including small and large lenders, insurance companies, investors, attorneys, accountants and private parties.

-Paul Williams

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