MGPA pounds pavement to find Japanese properties

MGPA has got cash to spend on Japanese property acquisitions. It comes from MGPA’s third Asian fund and its Tokyo-based fund management team envisages that they will be allocated about $250 million. Tom Mills is the CEO of Japan for MGPA. He was formerly with LendLease in San Francisco, and during 2001 and 2002 worked with LendLease Global Properties Fund team (now MGPA) on acquisitions in Tokyo. He moved to Tokyo in 2007, and joined MGPA earlier this year. Last week he raced in t…