Chicago Corporate Solutions Team

David Burden leads Occupier Services Chicago Area, a team that provides transaction and corporate advisory real estate services from Chicago across NA and the world.  David advises clients locally and accounts globally for space requirements in office, lab, industrial, retail, hospitality and specialty uses.  His experience stems from thousands of lease and sale transactions ranging from small offices to headquarters, restaurants, land and distribution spaces to manufacturing.  

David is currently the director of the firm's Life Sciences Practice Group, working closely with biotech companies.  He is also a founding member of the Tenant Advisory Council (fka Occupier Services Group) consisting of the firm's Top 100 "Tenant Rep" brokers who colloborate on multi-city assignments globally.  His hospitality, food company and financial services clients also hve given him the opportunity to develop expertise in Retail Services Group and as member of the Food & Beverage Practice Group.  He and his team of transaction management professionals take a comprehensive approach to be a one-stop point of contact for account management, lease administration, workplace strategy, labor analytics, capital markets, project management, demographics and incentives procurement services. 

Prior to joining Colliers in 2008, he worked in similar corporate services capacities at CBRE and C&W.  Earlier in his career, David worked on Capitol Hill in economic development roles before pursuing his MBA while working as a site selection consultant at Arthur Andersen LLP.  

David and wife Kristy met at the University of Illinois, married in 2001, and are blessed with three sons.

As a senior vice president within the Corporate Solutions team, I am focused on tenant representation services in Colliers International’s Chicago office.  I specialize in the optimization of a company's real estate holdings through workplace strategy development and implementation, site selection, property disposition and acquisition, financial analysis and modeling, deal negotiation and construction project management. My clientele and area of focus is primarily in the downtown Chicago marketplace.

I am a leader on a team committed to delivering comprehensive real estate solutions to some of Colliers' most valued customers.

I have been recognized for exceptional service and am just one of  a few professionals nationwide selected to play an active role in a development council that is focused on creating workplace solutions to satisfy the evolving demands of technology, space compression and design preferences while satisfying a wide range of work activities.

My team received the Service Provider of the Year award at the 2015 CoreNet Global REAL Awards, which recognizes exceptional service delivery on a consistent basis while bringing innovative ideas to the table.

I joined the Colliers team in August 2012. My prior work experience involved working as an associate director at Newmark Knight Frank where I specialized in tenant representation and corporate advisory services. While there, I represented a diverse group of clients who provided real estate strategies ranging from acquisitions and dispositions to lease restructures and consolidations.

I previously served as an associate vice president at UGL Equis, where I provided tenant-focused commercial real estate advisory services.