JLL Welcomes Industry Vets Matt McDonough & Dan Ligorner

PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 28, 2021 — JLL has hired commercial real estate veterans Matt McDonough and Daniel Ligorner to join the firm’s New Jersey office. McDonough, who has a 38-year industry career, joins as managing director and Ligorner, with 32 years of experience, joins as executive vice president. They will work within the Northern New Jersey office team, led by Tim Greiner, focusing on leveraging JLL’s deep talent base, diverse service line expertise and world-class platform to deliver new opportunities to existing and future owner and occupier clients. 

“We are pleased to welcome these industry leaders to the New Jersey office as we continue to expand our team of leading professionals that fit within our collaborative culture,” said Greiner. “Matt and Dan’s expertise and experience provide a powerful asset to our clients and to the rest of our team.” Together, McDonough and Ligorner currently represent approximately 1.5M square feet of Class-A office product in premier submarkets across New Jersey.

McDonough, former managing director with Transwestern, brings an extensive understanding of commercial tenant representation as well as a specialty assisting corporations as they acquire facilities. During his career, he has served as vice president at top real estate brokerage firms. McDonough graduated from Lehigh University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and finance as well as a MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Ligorner, former managing director with Transwestern, brings deep experience in organizational and operational leadership. During his career, Ligorner has provided business consulting services to high-performance, high-potential business across healthcare, media, real estate and entrepreneurship. Prior to entering commercial real estate, Ligorner served as COO at a top publishing and media company, providing market-leading information products. Ligorner graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and English.

“This is a time of significant change in the market, and it provides extraordinary opportunity for tenants, property owners and the real estate industry as a whole” said McDonough. “I am pleased to join the JLL platform, which is positioned to provide comprehensive support to businesses negotiating complex real estate decisions.”

“Joining the team at JLL enables me to drive superior value to clients during a critical period of flux in the real estate industry and economy as a whole,” said Ligorner. “The depth of experience on the team and the powerful resources of the international company position the New Jersey team to achieve creative solutions for clients.”

JLL is a leader in the northern/central New Jersey commercial real estate market, with more than 1,260 professionals and support staff providing agency leasing and property marketing, tenant representation, industrial services, strategic consulting, occupancy planning, workplace strategies, project and development services, property and facility management, and investment sales/capital markets debt and equity services to New Jersey's leading corporate tenants, investors and landlords. The firm, which assists clients from five full-service offices in Parsippany, Iselin (Metropark), Princeton, Morristown and East Rutherford, also acts as a local service provider for JLL’s global and national corporate clients in need of real estate assistance in New Jersey. NJBiz ranked JLL’s New Jersey operations as the No. 1 commercial real estate brokerage in the Garden State in 2020.