LaSalle Investment Management hires Lehman veteran

Real-estate specialist LaSalle Investment Management plans to increase its activities in China and Japan and has hired Asia property veteran Mark Gabbay as Asia-Pacific chief investment officer in Hong Kong. Gabbay will join on July 1, having spent more than 12 years in Asia, most recently for two years with Nomura International in Hong Kong and before that at Lehman Brothers as Asia-Pacific co-head of real estate in the same city. The Japanese bank acquired the Asian and European par…