As V.P. and Global Disposition Director, Gerard created and led our global disposition team (Leasing and Sales) for all USI clients. He built a reputation for on-time process management and consistently delivering above market solutions. As one example of hundreds, UTC (United Technologies Corp.) had worked for years to dispose of a $36 MM lease obligation on a very large surplus office and industrial property in a tertiary market.

Within 6 months of introduction, Gerard and his disposition team solved the issues and negotiated a complete lease termination with the landlord by identifying the replacement tenant for UTC. This represented a huge savings for UTC. Gerard is the most tenacious disposition expert that I have ever worked with. I depended on Gerard to provide all client disposition solutions as a key contributor to USI’s reputation and growth. Gerard consistently delivered on time as promised.

At IMS, we hired Gerard and his Disposition Team to dispose of (lease and sell) numerous assets including our Corporate headquarters. In this one example, we had a lease obligation on our 123,000 SF. For over a year, we had one of the most respected and well known real estate companies (not Gerard’s team) in the country unsuccessfully working to find a replacement (sub)tenant to so we could get out of the lease. Then we hired Gerard and his Dispositions (Leasing and Sales) Team. The market was close to 30% vacant and had not achieved a lease of more than 40,000 SF in over 5 years. The task seemed impossible.

The Disposition Process that Gerard and his team implemented was excellent. The team met with every qualified broker and resource in the market including our then current broker. The team developed a fast response relationship with the landlord and creating the best local team.As part of the process, Gerard’s team created and delivered an unusually enticing fair incentive fee for the prospect brokers – to ensure a balanced ethical decisions. With his dedicated 100% focus on dispositions, we secured a subtenant, Bayer, as promised. His team seemed to turn every rock and did everything possible to be sure we secured the first and best transaction possible. Once their team secured the subtenant, Gerard’s team gained Landlord approval of the sublease within two days. This sublease created over $5 million in savings for IMS and enabled us to focus on growing our core business. We found Gerard’s Disposition team to be unusually focused, responsive, dedicated and creative.

We appointed Gerard and his Disposition Team to sell, lease and sublease many assets globally – particularly in the Americas. Gerard’s creativity, knowledge and dedication delivered what we the client needed – closed dispositions. There are numerous cases where Gerard’s team, with his consistent direct leadership, delivered as promised on challenging and critical dispositions. One example: Gerard’s team represented us in marketing, delivering and closing 6 difficult transactions in three separate countries and 4 states in one fiscal year end quarter in order to meet our financial goals. Gross proceeds were over $16 million.

Another example is an extraordinarily challenged environmentally sensitive site in very poor condition that we inherited from a company we purchased. With the challenges, including the extraordinarily poor physical condition of the building, the task to sell the asset any time in the near future seemed impossible. With Gerard’s Disposition Team process, attention to detail, and creativity, we sold the asset as promised and more importantly alleviated any future environmental risk to our company. I find Gerard’s knowledge, experience, dedication and creativity to bring extremely positive and rapid results. I strongly recommend Gerard and his Disposition Team for any project you may have.

CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), appointed Gerard’s Disposition team to dispose of many challenging sites through lease and sale.There are many examples of his team’s consistent success on CSC dispositions. As one example, under Gerard’s passionate guidance, we leased and sold 27 assets within 9 months in a very difficult financial climate, and with challenged sites. Gerard and his team created savings of over $250 million with a substantial portion from dispositions (Leasing and Sales of excess real estate)

In Blythewood, South Carolina we owned a 300,000 square foot building.The entire market had typical absorption of under 20,000 SF per year. With Gerard’s leadership, disposition process, creativity and dedication, we secured a lease and a purchaser within 9 months. We absorbed decades of our fair share of the market in 9 mos. Within 30 days, Gerard created a talented multi-expert local team including the governor’s office, consultants, brokers, lawyers, users and the state economic development corporation. CSC and Gerard’s team closed a lease and sale of the property to the DMV. Gerard’s disposition process and results are dependable and provide great savings and value to clients. We at CSC are a “case in point.” You can depend on Gerard and his team.

It is my genuine pleasure to recommend Gerard Staudt whenever a corporate client has a need to dispose of real estate assets (Leasing and Sales) whether on an individual or a portfolio basis. I worked for Gerard directly and daily for 3 years with Gerard as Global Director of Dispositions at USI / Jonson Controls. He was the go-to guy when other people’s dying deals needed a miracle turn around. When he said something would be done, it was not a mere promise….it was a fact you could rely on.

In addition to his complete mastery of the commercial real estate leasing and sales process, Gerard also happens to be a truly caring man who has the tact and grace to handle the most sensitive and potentially difficult situations such as relocations, plant shut downs, etc. And he is very loyal to his team, clients, coworkers and local brokers.

Gerard worked for me at Citibank as VP, Asset Management for over five years. Gerard was responsible for repositioning and increasing value of commercial properties including leasing properties in preparation for sale. Gerard proved reliable in setting accurate expectations for our annual planning and delivered. He performed on time and on financial plan with a great positive “can do” attitude with challenging assets.

We found Gerard to be honest, hardworking and reliable. Where prior teams were not able to solve, ‘turnaround’ and deliver, Gerard did. One example is a Class A Burlington Massachusetts office building that had significant relationship, environmental, and leasing issues. Gerard set accurate aggressive targets and delivered as promised. He solved issues for all types of properties ranging from water treatment facilities and land to office buildings. Gerard is a pleasure to work with, a team player and has a great sense of humor.

Gerard worked for me as a leasing broker in Manhattan just out of college. Gerard was hardworking, honest, creative – and extremely dependable. Gerard developed new clients including MCI, Association of American Publishers, Nationwide Insurance and Castro Convertible Corporation. He created and led client relationships, marketing campaigns, lease negotiations – and beyond. Gerard was appointed Assistant Vice President when he was just 25 years of age.

He was known and respected by his clients, the senior leaders of Cross & Brown and his coworkers for getting space leased on time, and often at a profit above expectation. Gerard was also social and blended well with all levels of leadership groups and staff at our firm. I confidently recommend Gerard and his conscientious work ethic that he will surely bring to the most demanding assignment.

I worked with Gerard as his local broker in analyzing, marketing, and leasing a 300,000 square foot office and retail property for sale. Our broker team was responsible for the interaction with local brokers and prospects. Gerard’s team was responsible for working with the owner, strategy, pricing and approvals. Gerard’s process of meeting all local brokers, leading us in fun broker events for the property and responding quickly and responsibly to prospects and brokers was fast, fair and very well received by the market.

Gerard and his team have a keen knowledge of marketing and setting accurate expectations to stay one step ahead of the competition. His team “gets it done” with local brokers and prospects for his clients. It was a pleasure working with Gerard. He and his team is very firm, fair and fun to work with – and compensated our team as agreed and on time. We achieved the client goals together as the best disposition team in town.