Zenith Global Consulting — Retail Real Estate Advisory, Beverly Hills
Retail Real Estate • Strategy • Performance
Retail real estate strategy measured in EBITDA, not square footage.
Zenith Global Consulting advises retailers across the full real estate lifecycle — from identifying high-performing locations and negotiating the right economics to restructuring underperforming stores. Every decision starts and ends with the bottom line.
600+
Retail locations managed in the past
40+
Countries of direct operating experience
3
Global retail brands led at the executive level
20+
Years shaping retail real estate strategy
Services
Where retail growth and disciplined real estate strategy meet.
Every engagement draws on the same operating lens applied to a 600-store global footprint — now scaled to fit businesses of any size.
Growth & Expansion Strategy
Translate business objectives into a real estate footprint — market sequencing, format strategy, and store economics built to scale profitably, not just quickly.
Site Selection & Lease Negotiation
Landlord relationships built over two decades, deployed to secure the locations, rent structures, and lease terms that protect margin from day one.
Portfolio Restructuring & Optimization
Rationalize underperforming footprints, renegotiate from a position of leverage, and rebuild a portfolio around the locations that actually earn. Includes lease renegotiations and renewals to keep terms aligned with current performance.
Advisory & Family Office Services
Board-level counsel on capital allocation, real estate-backed investment, and long-horizon strategy for principals and family enterprises.
Global Partnerships & Franchise Structures
Design and negotiate the joint venture, master franchise, and distribution structures that let a brand enter new markets through the right local partner — with a particular focus on Latin America, India, Mexico, and the UK.
How We Think
We always think like a retailer, not a transactor. Store economics must always work — every deal is judged first by whether the store actually makes money, not by whether the deal gets done.
The Principal
Built inside the rooms most advisors only study.
Zenith Global Consulting is led by a former retail executive who ran global real estate for one of the largest specialty retailers in the world — over 600 locations across more than 40 countries, spanning malls, strip centers, and free-standing flagships. That experience — earlier shaped at H&M and Coach — is now applied on behalf of a smaller roster of clients: retailers, landlords, and family offices who need the judgment of an operator, not just the opinion of a consultant. A Penn State finance and economics background grounds the strategy in numbers; two decades on the ground grounds it in reality.
Approach
How an engagement runs.
Assess
Diagnose the current footprint, lease obligations, and business goals — no recommendation before the numbers are understood.
Structure
Build the strategy: markets, formats, and terms sequenced against the client's growth or restructuring timeline.
Negotiate
Sit across the table using relationships built over 20 years to secure terms that hold up past the first year.
Deliver
Coordinate the process to opening day — and stay engaged as an advisor as the portfolio evolves.
Contact
Let's talk about your footprint.
Whether you're opening your first ten stores or restructuring your last hundred, the first conversation is free and direct — no intake team, no junior associate.