Daniel Leahy
Executive Vice President
NAI Hiffman
One Oakbrook Terrace Suite 400
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181
United States
+1 630 691 0604
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)
