Christopher Knight

Christopher Knight

Managing Director, Capital Markets

Career summary
Chris is a Managing Director in the Chicago office of JLL Capital Markets. He joined JLL as part of the 2019 acquisition of HFF and has more than 15 years of experience in commercial real estate.  He focuses on arranging asset-level financings and subordinate debt transactions for all product types along with joint venture equity partnerships.  Over the course of his career, he has completed more than $4 billion of commercial real estate transactions.

Before joining HFF in 2013, Chris was a manager in the finance group of General Growth Properties (GGP). During his seven-year tenure at GGP, he was responsible for property financings, enterprise analytics and loan restructurings during the company’s bankruptcy.