Key takeaways
Host: Karen Cronin, Real Estate leader, Audit & Assurance
Presenters: Jonathan Keith, Nathan Florio and Chad Lackey
1 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
The pandemic has reshaped and reprioritized where and how people live, work, and play, and their choices are exerting major influence on commercial real estate (CRE) industry mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. Performance measures across the industry make one thing abundantly clear: sector matters. We’ll discuss:
- 2021 CRE M&A activity from broad industry- and sector-specific perspectives
- Expectations for 2022 M&A in the industrial, office, residential, retail, and hotel and leisure sectors
- Global and US-specific trends and drivers that will influence M&A activity in the coming year
Meet the speakers

Karen Cronin
Karen has been with Deloitte & Touche LLP for more than 20 years and has served a number of different industries. She is designated as a real estate specialist and serves both public and private clients, asset managers, owners, and operators of real estate as well as companies focused on mortgage lending. She has specific experience serving mortgage Real Estate Investment Trust clients, as well as traditional real estate managers and owners.

Jonathan Keith
Jonathan is a managing director with Risk and Financial Advisory and is a member of Deloitte & Touche LLP. Within the M&A group, he is the Real Estate sector leader and he specializes in and sell-side due diligence for real estate clients as well as technology and media clients, both in the private equity and strategic buyer community.
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Nathan Florio | Chad Lackey |
Principal | Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP | Senior Manager | Deloitte & Touche LLP |
naflorio@deloitte.com |
chlackey@deloitte.com |
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