Professional Experience
Associated Office
Dan Lyne is an Executive Vice President on the Advisory & Transaction Services team for CBRE. He holds leadership positions for both the Global Health & Life Sciences Practice, as well as the Global Technology & Media Practice. Dan’s career has long focused on the interdependence of life science disciplines with advanced technologies and data analytics.
A well-regarded leader throughout the Chicago business community, Dan represents clients both large and small on complex real estate transactions. Dan is also a senior advisor on public/private client engagements and manages portfolio company services for several notable venture capital and private equity funds. Through his career, he has advised and led transactions for a wide range of both tenants and investors/developers including:
- Novartis Gene Therapies
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals
- AveXis
- Baird Venture Capital
- Portal Innovations
- Builder’s Vision & S2G Ventures
- The American Medical Association
- Motorola Solutions
- Lightbank
- Horizon Therapeutics
- Soli Organics
- P33
- PayPal
- Whirlpool
- SMS-Assist
- Assertio
- Spotify USA
- DocuSign
- The State of Illinois
- The University of Chicago
- Trammell Crow Company
- Ventas
- Wexford Life Sciences
- Beacon Capital Partners
- Aptinyx
As it is his passion, Dan has focused much of his career on addressing talent attraction and corporate culture via the need for transformational and world-class creative space and R&D environments.
Dan is also the co-founder of "1871" – a 170,000 square foot co-working center for digital startups located in Chicago’s famed Merchandise Mart. Two years later, Dan was on the
founding team that launched MATTER, a 25,000 square foot co-working venture dedicated to entrepreneurs focused on healthcare and life sciences innovation.