Jay Lamy

Jay Lamy founded AQUILA Commercial in January 2007 after spending seven years growing The Staubach Company’s Austin office. During his tenure at The Staubach Company, Jay was honored numerous times by the Austin Business Journal and others for his outstanding work on some of Austin’s most highly visible transactions.

Jay has leveraged his background in investment banking and venture capital to better serve his clients in the commercial real estate arena, specifically on lease acquisitions and dispositions and asset purchase and sale transactions. Prior to joining The Staubach Company, Jay worked with Bariston Partners (1998 - 1999), a merchant bank / venture capital group in Boston. At Bariston, Jay focused on new company acquisitions and financial advisory work for existing portfolio companies seeking additional equity and debt financing. From 1996 - 1997, Jay worked in CIBC Oppenheimer’s investment banking group in New York, where he was an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group focusing on merger and acquisition transactions and public equity offerings.

Tenant Representation
2012 - Qualcomm, 53,000 SF Stonebridge Plaza
2011 - Green Mountain, 51,000 SF 300 W. 6th St.
2011 - Brown McCarroll, 46,000 SF One Congress Plaza
2010 - Stone Solutions, 30,000 SF Metric 3
2010 - Crossroads Systems, 38,000 SF Stonelake 6
2010 - Goodwill Industries of Central Texas, 124,000 SF Commerce Center South
2010 - BancVue, 62,000 SF Lakeview Plaza A
2008 - Charles Schwab, 166,000 SF Research Park Place
2008 - Compass Bank, 29,000 SF Capstar at Compass Plaza
2008 - Sony Online Entertainment, 38,000 SF Prominent Point II
2007 - RGM Advisors, 33,000 SF Chase Tower
2004 - AMD, 98,000 SF Rialto
2003 - Broadwing Communications, 28,000 SF Cityview Center
2002 - Cadence Design Systems, 68,000 SF Research Park Place I

Advisory
2010 - Catholic Diocese of Austin - Negotiated the purchase of a 53,000 square foot owner occupied building in Northeast Austin from the Texas Hospital Association
2010 - 400 Bowie - Sold the 20,000 square foot office building located across the street from the Whole Foods market

Achievements
2003 & 2005 Austin Business Journal #1 Heavy Hitter for tenant representation
2004, 2006 & 2008 Austin Business Journal #3 Heavy Hitter for tenant representation
2004 & 2007 Austin Business Journal Real Estate Transaction of the Year for work on the Goodwill and Concordia site disposition and acquisition, respectively
1995 1st Team GTE and CFA Academic All-American Football player
1996 Bob Quin Outstanding Scholar Athlete Award (highest award given to a student athlete at Rice University)
1996 Southwest Conference Jacoby Sportsmanship Award in recognizing the student who best displays the attributes of sportsmanship, leadership, citizenship and academic integrity

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Managerial Studies & Economics, Cum Laude, Rice University