JWA Partners

An independent retail real estate advisory firm partnering with brands, landlords, and investors to optimise retail portfolios, leases, and location decisions across Asia Pacific and key global retail markets.

Core Capabilities

JWA Partners fills a crucial gap between brokerage and remote consulting. We embed directly with senior leadership teams — providing tailored, strategic advice and hands-on delivery across high-stakes transactions in complex, competitive markets. We enable faster decisions and execution confidence.

Brands

Strategic advice and execution for international luxury, fashion, lifestyle, and F&B brands entering new markets, expanding store networks, or rationalising existing portfolios.

We work together to understand the brand’s vision and deliver strategies and execution by region and market.

outdoor shopping mall

Landlords

Tailored support for landlords and developers to create a property-wide strategy to deliver stronger leasing solutions, sharper tenant mix and adjacency curation, elevated asset positioning, footfall enhancements and an improved retail experience.

flagship corner retail shop

Investors

Investors and asset owners assessing retail opportunities, repositioning strategies, and value creation across operating portfolios.

We work together at all stages of the asset’s life cycle from acquisition to leasing and ultimately sale.

JWA Partners is led by James Assersohn, a global retail real estate executive with over 20 years’ experience in Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. James brings a proven track record of execution, having:

  • Led LVMH owned DFS’s real estate strategy and execution for a 2 million sq. ft., US $300M per annum global retail portfolio across three continents.

  • Delivered >US $700M of dollars in savings through portfolio restructurings and lease optimisation programmes.

  • Negotiated complex and high-value leases across Asia Pacific, U.S. and Europe up to US $85M per annum.

  • Advised major institutional landlords and global retailers whilst at leading real estate firms in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, and London.

  • Global mindset and cross-cultural awareness built from having lived and worked in Europe, China, Hong Kong and Korea.

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