Daniel Leahy

Executive Vice President

NAI Hiffman
One Oakbrook Terrace Suite 400
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181
United States
T +1 630 691 0604
dleahy@hiffman.com

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Specialties

Industrial, Logistics / Intermodal / Supply Chain

Scope of Experience

Dan Leahy is an Executive Vice President and Partner at NAI Hiffman and specializes in assisting industrial users, owners, and institutional REITs with their real estate strategies and implementation. He offers prolific expertise on all matters of corporate real estate, including lease negotiation/restructuring, strategic planning, build-to-suit oversight, site selection consulting, logistical consulting, labor analysis, incentive consulting and disposition/leasing services.  As the founding member and Managing Director of NAI Global Logistics, he applies an integrated approach to assist shipping, manufacturing and logistics companies with complex real estate, transportation and supply chain solutions. 

Background & Experience

Dan has completed an impressive 630 transactions totaling more than $6 billion in volume and is distinguished as one of the nation’s top industrial brokers. He has assisted such notable clients as Walmart, Sanyo, APL Logistics, Henkel, Ingersoll Rand, Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery, TTX Company, Prologis, TA Realty, AEW Capital Management, ML Realty Partners, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, JP Morgan, IDI Logistics, Brookfield Properties and CenterPoint Properties.

Real estate organizations, trade publications and industry peers continue to recognize Dan for his significant achievements and contributions to commercial real estate. He has been nominated for the prestigious “Chicago Industrial Broker of the Year” award fifteen times and has won the coveted award five times. Crain’s Chicago named him as one of the “Most Influential Commercial Real Estate Brokers in Chicago”, and NAIOP awarded him “Industrial Broker Transaction of the Year” on five separate occasions. In 2021, he was inducted into Midwest Real Estate News’, “Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame”. Dan has also appeared as keynote speaker, moderator, and/or panelist at numerous industrial real estate events and has been published in a variety of industrial real estate and logistics trade publications. 

Education

Southern Illinois University

Bachelor of Science, Communications and Economics

Professional Associations & Designations

Licensed Real Estate Broker, Illinois

Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE)

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)

NAI Global - --Industrial Council Chairman (2002), Leadership Board Member (2004-2009), NAI Global Logistics, Managing Director & Founder (1999-Present)

National Association of Industrial & Office Properties (NAIOP), Board Member (2017-2021)

Young Industrial Real Estate Brokers, Founding Member

Awards & Recognitions

Connect Media’s Top Leasing Broker (2018)

CoStar’s Power Broker Award (19 times)

Crain’s Chicago List of Most Influential Commercial Real Estate Brokers in Chicago (2017)

Greater Chicago Food Depository CRE Awards - Industrial Broker of the Year (recipient 5 times, nominee/finalist 10 times)

Midwest Real Estate News’, Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame, 2021 Inductee

NAI Global - Top Producers Award (7 times), President’s Award & Fitzgerald Award

National Association of Industrial & Office Properties (NAIOP), Industrial Broker Transaction of the Year Award for Excellence (recipient 5 times, nominee 9 times)

Transaction History

CenterPoint Properties / CenterPoint Intermodal Center (31 Transactions) Over 20M SF

TA Realty (54 Transactions) 7,411,145 SF 

International Storage Properties (30+ Transactions) 1,695,343 SF

Con-Way Logistics (12 Transactions) 1,280,900 SF

Heads & Threads International (11 Transactions) 653,106 SF

Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery (27 National Transactions) 714,192 SF

APL Logistics  421,000 SF

Sanyo Logistics 400,600 SF

CenterPoint Properties Land / Land Assemblage   6,390 AC 

Environmental Systems Products (50+ National Transactions)