Tom Rugg is the Co-Head of U.S. Large Loans in Debt & Structured Finance at CBRE focusing on institutional debt advisory, with specific expertise in originating, pricing, negotiating, structuring, syndicating, and securitizing large commercial real estate finance transactions.
Tom joined CBRE in December 2023 and brings over 20 years of large loan and capital markets experience. Since 2016, the U.S. Large Loans team has arranged more than $49 billion in fixed and floating-rate financing transactions on large single assets and portfolios. Throughout his career, Tom has originated commercial real estate loans for institutional clients throughout the United States, spanning all property types, and has syndicated over $25 billion of fixed and floating-rate subordinate debt to capital providers both domestic and international, including debt funds, mortgage REITs, banks, money managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and hedge funds.
Prior to CBRE, Tom was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank where he spent over 12 years within the commercial real estate group with responsibilities related to large loan origination, subordinate debt distribution, and warehouse facilities.
Prior to Deutsche Bank, Tom held senior capital markets roles at Wells Fargo Bank and Wachovia Securities.