JLL (company) explained

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
Type:Public
Area Served:Worldwide
Key People:Siddharth ("Bobby") Mehta, Chairman
Christian Ulbrich, President & CEO
Karen Brennan, CFO
Industry:Real estate
Foundation: London, United Kingdom
by the merger of Jones Lang Wootton and LaSalle Partners
Founder:Richard Winstanley
Location:Aon Center
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Revenue: US$20.76 billion (2023)
Operating Income: US$577 million (2023)
Net Income: US$225 million (2023)
Assets: US$16.06 billion (2023)
Equity: US$4.410 billion (2023)
Num Employees:106,100
Num Employees Year:2023
Subsid:LaSalle Investment Management
Footnotes:[1]

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) is a global real estate services company, founded in the United Kingdom with offices in 80 countries. The company also provides investment management services worldwide, including services to institutional and retail investors, and to high-net-worth individuals,[2] as well as technology products through JLL Technologies, and VC investments via its PropTech fund, JLL Spark. The company is ranked 193 on the Fortune 500.[3]

History

After LaSalle Partners' initial public offering (IPO) in 1997,[4] in 1999, it merged with Jones Lang Wootton to form Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) as part of a $435 million deal.[5] [6] Jones Lang Wootton was a London auctioneer that originated in the 1700s. By 1976, Jones Lang Wootton had expanded into the United States real estate market in New York City.[7] The company had 4,000 employees in 33 countries around the time of the merger with LaSalle Partners.[8]

William Sanders founded the real estate company International Development Corp in 1966 in El Paso, Texas.[9] [10] Sanders renamed the company LaSalle Partners in 1968 and relocated to Chicago, Illinois.[9] The company first offered investment banking, investment management, and land services. By 1997, LaSalle had grown into three business divisions, Management Services, Corporate and Financial Services, and Investment Management, with ten U.S. corporate offices and seven international offices.

JLL purchased The Staubach Company in 2008. Roger Staubach served as executive chairman of JLL from 2008 until he retired in 2018. JLL merged with UK-based King Sturge in a £197 million deal in 2011.[11] The combined business, with 2,700 employees and 43 offices, created the largest property agent in the UK, as reported by The Telegraph in 2011.[11] The company acquired Irish-based Guardian Property Asset Management in 2015.[12] LaSalle Investment Management, a subsidiary of JLL, managed $58 billion in real estate investments for institutional and retail clients, as of 2016. JLL had acquired 80 companies and established 100 offices worldwide by 2016.

The company expanded from commercial real estate services to include property technology, or "proptech", with the 2017 launch of its JLL Spark division.[13] In June 2018, JLL Spark created a $100 million venture fund to invest in real estate start-ups, such as a technology to link office users with co-working spaces.[14]

JLL announced the acquisition of HFF in a deal worth $2 billion in March 2019.[15] The acquisition was completed in July 2019 and worth $1.8 billion.[16]

In 2021, the company's technology division sold Stessa, the single-family rental asset management software company it acquired in 2018, to Roofstock as part of a deal in which JLL acquired a minority stake in Roofstock and it would provide services to JLL's clients.[17] [18]

JLL manages the London offices of the social media company Facebook. In July 2021, JLL sought the removal of a cleaner from the offices when, in his capacity as a trade union representative, he organised a protest against a doubling of the cleaners' workloads.[19]

In August 2021, JLL announced the acquisition of Skyline Al which is an AI platform that provides a comprehensive analysis of commercial real estate properties.[20]

In late 2021 and early 2022, JLL made two "proptech" acquisitions. In November 2021, it purchased the property management software company Building Engines,[21] and in February 2022 it acquired Hank, a company developing AI-based technology to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.[22]

In June 2023, JLL launched Carbon Pathfinder, a software tool it had developed for companies to identify the carbon emissions from their buildings and ways to reduce those emissions.[23]

The company developed a large language model (LLM) tool called JLL GPT for its employees, and launched it in August 2023. It was the first such model to be launched by a major real estate services company.[24] The generative AI model is being trained on JLL's data as of 2023 and was developed to be able to answer questions about commercial real estate.[25]

Operations

JLL is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and as of October 2018 was the second-largest, by total transactions, public brokerage firm in the world ($162.12 billion).[26] [27] The company has more than 106,000 employees in 80 countries, .

Services include investment management, asset management, sales and leasing, property management, project management, development, and property technology.[28] [29] In 2014, the organization shortened its name to JLL for marketing purposes, while the legal name remained Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.[30] [31]

Former company president Christian Ulbrich succeeded Colin Dyer as CEO in October 2016.[32] Karen Brennan was named CFO on June 22, 2020 effective July 15, 2020.[33] [34] Sheila Penrose served as board chairwoman starting in 2005,[35] [36] and was replaced by Siddharth ("Bobby") Mehta in 2020.[37]

In 2022, JLL founded the JLL Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on climate change and sustainability. The foundation provides zero-interest loans to startup companies that provide or are developing sustainable products or technologies, for example recycling plastic waste into construction products.[38]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated 2023 Form 10-K Annual Report . February 27, 2024 . U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  2. Web site: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) Company Profile & Facts - Yahoo Finance. finance.yahoo.com. en-US. 2020-04-10.
  3. Web site: Fortune 500: Jones Lang LaSalle . . March 19, 2024.
  4. Web site: LaSalle files for IPO . April 24, 1997 . American City Business Journals.
  5. News: Company News; LaSalle To Buy Jones Lang Wootton For $450 Million . The New York Times . Reuters . 23 October 1998 . March 8, 2019.
  6. News: What's in a name? For Jones Lang LaSalle, a lot less . Ho . Catherine . Washington Post . 17 March 2014 . March 11, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170324223813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170324223813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/2014/03/14/1d169c6e-a3de-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html?utm_term=.7a18e40ad4ee . March 24, 2017 . dead.
  7. News: A Wall St. Realtor Lures Foreign Cash . Scardino . Albert . The New York Times . 30 March 1987 . March 8, 2019.
  8. News: Company News; LaSalle and Jones Lang Wootton in Merger Talks . Bloomberg News . 18 June 1998 . March 8, 2019.
  9. News: Beto O'Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal. Barrio Residents Remember . Saul . Stephanie . The New York Times . 29 October 2018 . February 8, 2019.
  10. News: Is Beto O'Rourke's Wife Really A 'Billionaire' Heiress? Not Likely. . Helman . Christopher . Debter . Lauren . Forbes . February 11, 2019.
  11. News: Jones Lang LaSalle merges with King Sturge to become UK's biggest property agent . Ruddick . Graham . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/constructionandproperty/8541632/Jones-Lang-LaSalle-merges-with-King-Sturge-to-become-UKs-biggest-property-agent.html . January 12, 2022 . subscription . live . The Telegraph . 27 May 2011 . February 11, 2019.
  12. News: JLL moving into residential property with Guardian acquisition. The Irish Times . 12 November 2015 . February 11, 2019.
  13. News: JLL Spark makes first acquisition as industry gets serious about technology . Chen . Jackson . 4 April 2018 . February 8, 2019.
  14. News: JLL Spark leads $5.2M funding round for British office booking platform . Nitkin . Alex . Cretech . 30 January 2019 . August 1, 2019.
  15. News: JLL to buy brokerage HFF in $2 billion deal . Ecker . Danny . Crain's Chicago Business . 19 March 2019 . April 26, 2019.
  16. News: JLL closes $1.8B acquisition of rival HFF . Carlock . Catherine . Boston Business Journal . 2 July 2019 . July 11, 2019 .
  17. News: Dezember . Ryan . Commercial Property Giant Moves Into Rental Houses . Wall Street Journal . 3 March 2021 . March 8, 2021.
  18. News: Nicoll. Alex. Roofstock plans hiring spree even as it scales back its own real estate needs . Business Insider . 18 March 2021 . March 18, 2021.
  19. Web site: 2021-09-12. Facebook office cleaner who led protests at London site fears for his job. 2021-09-12. the Guardian. en.
  20. News: Castellanos. Sara. 2021-08-11. JLL Moves to Acquire Artificial Intelligence Startup Skyline AI. en-US. Wall Street Journal. 2021-08-12. 0099-9660.
  21. News: Chesto. Jon. Real estate giant JLL is buying Boston property software firm Building Engines for $300M . subscription . Boston Globe . 22 October 2021 . February 7, 2022.
  22. News: Man. Pui-Guan. JLL buys US proptech platform in sustainability drive. Estates Gazette . 6 January 2022. JLL has acquired an AI-powered start-up based in Sacramento, in response to growing client demand for more sustainable buildings.Virtual engineering platform Hank, which was sold for an undisclosed sum, applies machine learning and AI to solve challenges such as HVAC programming inconsistencies and energy and equipment inefficiencies. The deal comes after JLL bought building operations platform Building Engines for $300m (£221m) in November..
  23. Web site: 2023-07-18 . The tech to sustain – JLL and Carbon Pathfinder . Brian . Sommer . 2023-10-30 . diginomica . en.
  24. Web site: Bennett-Ness . Jamie . 2023-08-03 . subscription . JLL launches commercial real estate's first AI-driven GPT model . 2023-10-30 . Property Week . en . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230804094635/https://www.propertyweek.com/news/jll-launches-commercial-real-estates-first-ai-driven-gpt-model/5126225.article . Aug 4, 2023 .
  25. Web site: JLL launches in-house generative AI model geared toward commercial real estate . subscription . August 2, 2023 . William . Hicks . 2023-10-30 . Bay Area Inno . live . https://archive.today/20240303203752/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2023/08/02/jll-ai-model.html . 3 Mar 2024 .
  26. News: The gameplan for Roger Staubach? Teaming up with Cowboys pal Robert Shaw and family clock management . Hall . Cheryl . Dallas Morning News . 14 October 2018 . February 11, 2019.
  27. News: Top 10 Brokerage Firms . Bodamer . David . National Real Estate Investor . 1 April 2014 . February 8, 2019.
  28. Web site: Torres . Destiny . 2022-10-31 . Proptech Is Shaking Up the Real Estate Industry . 2023-05-01 . Los Angeles Business Journal . en-US.
  29. News: The Case for Buying Jones Lang LaSalle . Englander . David . Barron's . 28 May 2016 . February 8, 2019.
  30. News: Jones Lang LaSalle becomes JLL . Montgomery . Angus . 5 March 2014 . February 11, 2019.
  31. News: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) Is In Buy Territory (Again) . Mason . Amelie . Post Analyst . May 8, 2019 . May 22, 2019 . April 10, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220410024502/https://postanalyst.com/2019/05/08/jones-lang-lasalle-incorporated-jll-is-in-buy-territory-again/ . dead .
  32. News: Movers & Shakers: NBCUniversal names new chief real estate officer, JLL's new CEO … & more . Chen . Cathaleen . The Real Deal . 8 September 2016 . February 8, 2019.
  33. Web site: 2020-08-10. JLL misses Q2 estimates, appoints new CFO. 2020-08-13. San Francisco Business Times.
  34. Web site: 2020-06-23. Global real estate firm JLL names Karen Brennan chief financial officer. 2020-08-13. BizWomen.
  35. News: Davos 2019: 'I'm the boss, he's the spouse' . Hope . Katie . BBC News . 22 January 2019 . February 13, 2019.
  36. News: Changing the face of commercial real estate . Squires . Paula . Virginia Business . 29 October 2016 . February 13, 2019.
  37. Web site: Change at the top as JLL names new chairman . www.egi.co.uk . February 6, 2020 . 2021-02-26.
  38. Web site: June 26 . Erik Sherman . AM . 2023 at 07:33 . JLL Foundation Supports 15 Climate-Focused Startups in Its First Year . 2023-10-30 . GlobeSt . en.

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