MARISA MANLEY, President
Since 1989, Ms. Manley has handled over $1.5 billion of transactions nationwide, and over $3 billion of consulting assignments – exclusively for space users. She has helped her clients reduce real estate costs by over $120 million. Ms. Manley’s clients have included AT&T, IBM, Time Warner, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Nomura Securities, Depository Trust, the State of New York and other sophisticated space users as well as younger, fast-growing companies who seek to maximize the value they receive for the real estate dollars they spend. Manley and CTRR provide comprehensive expertise to find space, negotiate transactions, and manage the on-going real estate process to save executive time and reduce project risk.
Ms. Manley has spoken nationwide before the American Corporate Counsel Association, the New York State Bar Association, and other legal and professional organizations.
Ms. Manley has written extensively on how corporate space users can structure and negotiate more cost-effective real estate transactions. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Barrons, Inc. Magazine, and other publications.
She has been quoted on industry trends in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Crain’s New York Business, CFO, Bloomberg, and other media.
Ms. Manley graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
mmanley@ctrr.net