Professional Summary: James Rainer is a director at Newmark’s Memphis office, where he focuses on attracting new tenants, leading property tours, negotiating leases and sales agreements, and promoting properties to key local decision-makers. He joined Newmark in 2016 following the firm’s acquisition of the locally owned Newmark Grubb Memphis, previously Grubb & Ellis Memphis. Prior to that, Mr. Rainer started at Grubb & Ellis in 2011, forming a team with his father, Jim, and began his commercial real estate career in 2010 at Memphis-based Coleman-Etter, Fontaine Realtors.