Worldwide Plaza signed a new tenant this week as Nomura Holding America Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Nomura Holdings, Inc., leased over 900,000 square feet of space in the Midtown tower for its Americas headquarters. According to a GlobeSt.com article, Nomura expects that by mid-2013 the company will relocate from its current home at 2 World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan, where it subleases from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. John Cefaly, Rob Lowe, Clark Finney and Anthony Pasqual of Cushman & Wakefield, along with Ed Donery and David Heller of C&W's Transactions Group, represented Nomura in the deal. Peter Duncan, George Comfort and Matt Coudert represented building ownership in-house.
"We are delighted to welcome one of the financial services industry’s global leaders to Worldwide Plaza," said Peter Duncan.
"This demonstrates our long-term commitment to build a top-tier investment bank in the US," said Atsushi Yoshikawa, President & CEO Nomura Holding America Inc.
Nomura has leased 20 full floors in the 1.8 million square foot Class A office tower between 49th and 50th Streets on Eighth Avenue. Nomura is taking 10 vacant floors as well as 10 floors presently occupied by Universal Music Group, which is leaving the building at the end of the year.
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