Eigenbrodt servea as general counsel; Jafarnia sees to brokerage compliance. Real-estate investment company Behringer Harvard has added two members to its legal team, expanding the department to 12 members in all. The firm says the moves answer an increased need for legal as the firm grows.

Stan Eigenbrodt will join the firm as a counsel for general legal matters, taking up operational responsibility for the department. Kamal Jafarnia will join as assistant general counsel for compliance relating to Behringer Harvard subsidiary Behringer Securities. He will also "oversee selling group due diligence and legal matters related to the firm's growing securities sales network of independent financial advisor firms," according to the firm.

Growth period

Gerald Reihsen, executive v.p. of corporate development and legal affairs at Dallas-based Behringer Harvard says calls Eigenbrodt and Jafarnia "valuable assets during what we anticipate [will be] a period of continued growth for Behringer Harvard."

Eigenbrodt has more than 16 years of experience as an attorney, author and speaker with a specialization in corporate and securities issues. Most recently, he was a member of the Dallas-based law firm Glast, Phillips & Murray.

Jafarnia has been engaged in the financial services industry for more than eight years, most recently as vice president of Orlando, Fla.-based real-estate investment manager CNL Capital.

Behringer Harvard says it provides real-estate investment trusts and limited partnerships reflecting core, value-added and opportunistic investment strategies. -FWR

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