In 1974, John Fowler and Peter Goedecke founded Fowler, Goedecke & Company. In 1982, Holliday Fenoglio & Co was founded by Harold E. (Hal) Holliday and John Fenoglio. In 1994,
Amresco acquired Holliday Fenoglio Dockerty & Gibson. In 1998, Amresco acquired Fowler, Goedecke, Ellis & O'Connor Inc. and merged the two companies to form Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. In 1999, the company was sold to
Lendlease for $228 million. In 2007, it became a
public company via an
initial public offering that raised $257 million. In 2012, founders Holliday and Fenoglio went to work for
CBRE. In July 2019,
JLL acquired the company for $1.8 billion. ==References==