JLL (company)
professional services and investment management company
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) is an American real estate services company headquartered in Chicago. The company has offices in 80 countries. It offers investment management services worldwide, including services to institutional and retail investors, and to high-net-worth individuals, as well as technology products through JLL Technologies, and venture capital investments through its PropTech fund, JLL Spark. The company is ranked 175 on the Fortune 500.
History
After LaSalle Partners' initial public offering (IPO) in 1997, which was led by its first CEO, Stuart Scott, it merged with Jones Lang Wootton in 1999, to form Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) as part of a $435 million deal. Jones Lang Wootton was a London auctioneer that originated in the 1700s. By 1976, Jones Lang Wootton had expanded into the United States real estate market in New York City. The company had 4,000 employees in 33 countries around the time of the merger with LaSalle Partners.
William Sanders founded the real estate company International Development Corp in 1966 in El Paso, Texas.
Sanders renamed the company LaSalle Partners in 1968 and relocated to Chicago, Illinois.
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