NEW YORK CITY—JLL has hired Natalie Touzet as a VP here. She will be responsible for overseeing client relationships and strategic partnerships, complete financial analysis of overseas investments, and generate international business and market analysis.

Touzet has more than 12 years of experience in global business endeavors. Her expertise focuses on business decision-making, lending support to clients in litigation matters, managing investigative and business intelligence projects, risk assessment and economic development.

“Natalie's background and linguistical skills will enhance our assistance of current French- and Spanish-language speaking clients in navigating the New York real estate market,” says Phil Palmer, executive managing director. “Her expertise will provide JLL with a major advantage in business development efforts in that community.”

Prior to joining JLL, Touzet served as an investment manager with Catalonia Trade & Invest, where she assisted companies based in the United States and Canada with projects to establish operations in the Catalonia region of Spain. Her efforts included location studies, incentives negotiations and start-up business operations. Touzet was instrumental in establishing a new research and development center in Barcelona for a global independent software company. She has worked with several biotech/medical device companies involved in advanced drug trials and newly patented technologies.

Earlier, she was a senior analyst with Kroll, where she managed business intelligence and investigation projects for US, European and Latin American businesses. Before that, Touzet worked with companies that included Citigate Global Intelligence and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, handling business intelligence investigations, and mergers and acquisitions advisory efforts for European and Latin American operations and investments.

She is fluent in French, Spanish and English, and has lived in France, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US.

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Rayna Katz

Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.