LOS ANGELES-Cushman & Wakefield has named longtime real estate finance and investment professional Curtis Magleby as senior managing director of capital markets and US western region leader. Magleby, who has more than two decades of experience at leading Wall Street firms and joins Cushman & Wakefield from RBR Capital, will be based in Los Angeles.

In his new post, Magleby will oversee Cushman & Wakefield’s investment sales, debt and equity finance and investment banking divisions in the western half of the US. His appointment, on which Cushman & Wakefield was advised by the executive search firm Korn/Ferry International, follows the recent hiring of Matthew Gworek to lead the company’s eastern region and Steve Weilbach to lead the company’s multifamily practice.

Before RBR Capital, Magleby held posts in real estate asset management and investment at firms including Wachovia Securities, Lehman Bros. and Salomon Smith Barney in New York and Los Angeles. At Wachovia, from 2005 to 2009, he was a managing director in charge of lodging and gaming in investment banking, where he established new revenue streams and executed more than 100 capital markets transactions. At Lehman Bros., he served in various leadership roles from 1998 to 2005, including serving as a managing director of the firm’s real estate and leisure/casino group. There, he was the primary team member responsible for the execution of various financings and M&A transactions totaling more than $8 billion. Before Lehman Bros., Magleby spent six years at Salomon Smith Barney in its real estate and lodging group, focused on analysis and structuring of debt and equity financing for public and private investors.