Jones Lang LaSalle

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Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) is a financial and professional services firm speciaizing in real estate and is headquartered in the Aon Center in Chicago, Illinois. It is the only company in its industry making it into Fortune magazine's list of the 100 Best Places to Work in the U.S. and Forbes magazine's "400 Best Big Companies in America".[1]

The company has more than 32,000 employees,[citation needed] approximately 170 offices worldwide and operates in more than 700 cities in 60 countries.[2] Global revenue in 2007 was $2.7 billion and the firm has a global portfolio of 1.2 billion square feet under management.[2]

Jones Lang LaSalle was formed by the 1999 merger of LaSalle Partners Incorporated and Jones Lang Wootton.[3] Jones Lang LaSalle brings together two organizations with long histories of client service. The former Jones Lang Wootton (JLW) had its beginning in 1783, when Richard Winstanley established business as an auctioneer in Paternoster Row, London. LaSalle Partners Incorporated was founded under the name IDC Real Estate in 1968 in El Paso.

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  1. ^ Zajac, Brian. "America's Best Big Companies", Forbes, December 21, 2006. Accessed June 8, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "EFI Retains Real Estate Advisory Firm", Business Wire, 29 May 2008
  3. ^ "Jones Lang, LaSalle merger", The Indian Express, March 19, 1999. Accessed June 8, 2008.

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