Tishman Speyer

Rob Speyer, President and CEO, leads investment and strategic direction, with Jerry Speyer serving as Chairman. The firm's investment committee reviews all major acquisitions, development starts, and dispositions, drawing on a senior leadership team that includes the global heads of development, acquisitions, and asset management.

Because the firm acts as both developer and operator, sourcing often originates from its own portfolio-long urban rezoning, assembling adjacent parcels, or repositioning distressed assets within submarkets it already dominates. Its multigenerational relationships with municipalities, anchor tenants, and local landowners in cities like New York and São Paulo generate off-market opportunities before institutional bidding processes begin.

Tishman Speyer operates as a private institutional asset manager with family-controlled governance. While the Speyer family retains control through a private ownership structure, the firm raises discretionary commingled funds and separate accounts from sovereign wealth funds, public pensions, and corporate investors globally.

The firm manages discretionary closed-end opportunistic funds, the latest of which, Tishman Speyer Real Estate Venture X, closed at $2.5 billion in 2022 (per PERE, 2022). These funds sit alongside single-asset joint ventures and separately managed accounts, with the firm investing meaningful co-investment capital alongside its LPs in every vehicle.

Tishman Speyer avoids secondary and tertiary markets, focusing capital exclusively on gateway global cities with deep liquid real estate markets. Within those cities, it concentrates on large-scale mixed-use development and Class A office, residential, and retail, generally avoiding single-tenant net-lease assets, industrial logistics, and suburban multifamily.

Tishman Speyer Ventures was launched in 2021 as a strategic venture arm investing in real estate technology companies that can be deployed across the firm's portfolio. The unit, led by a dedicated team, has invested in companies like Latch, VTS, and HqO, pursuing both financial returns and operational advantages for the parent company's 90-million-square-foot portfolio.

Tishman Speyer acts as the GP and operating partner in nearly all its deals, maintaining control over development, leasing, and capital-stack decisions. It invites co-investment from strategic capital partners, including family offices like Raffles Family Office (per Bloomberg, 2023), but rarely serves as a passive LP in funds managed by external GPs.