SINGAPORE :  Tony Ryan, an industry specialist with 30 years’ experience providing commercial and legal services to the hotel and hospitality industry in Asia Pacific, is joining JLL.

In a newly created role, Mr Ryan will be the global head of Mergers & Acquisitions for the firm’s Hotels & Hospitality Group. He will report to Mark Wynne Smith, Global CEO, JLL Hotels & Hospitality Group and be based in Singapore.

Starting in December 2015, Mr Ryan will provide hospitality industry clients with strategic advice on growing their local and international businesses through corporate and portfolio acquisitions, capital sourcing, joint ventures, business restructuring and cross border transactions.

“With Tony joining, we now have an even stronger team to service our clients in Asia Pacific and beyond. We are confident that our existing deep knowledge base, combined with Tony’s stellar expertise and network, will give us the most compelling hotels M&A offering in the market.”

Scott Hetherington, CEO Asia, JLL Hotels & Hospitality Group, says: “We are delighted to be bringing Tony into the business. He will be a huge asset to JLL as he has a skill set that is complementary to our current team in Asia Pacific. With him on board, we expect to grow the M&A part of our business to meet the demands of our current clients and of the market in general.”

in New South Wales in 1984. He graduated from the Advanced Management Program at the Hotel School, Cornell University, New York, USA in 1999.