PE-backed Avison Young buys Arizona's GPE Companies
Avison Young Inc has acquired Phoenix, Arizona-based GPE Management Services LLC and GPE Commercial Advisors LLC, which together do business as the GPE Companies. No financial terms were released. The acquisition of GPE, a commercial real estate business and healthcare real estate specialist, provides Avison with a new office in Phoenix. Avison, a Toronto-based commercial real estate services company, has been backed by Tricor Pacific Capital since 2011. It is now part of the portfolio of Tricor's successor Parallel49 Equity.





