Europe Real Estate - Where Are We With Debt Leveraging & Competitive Pricing?

Ali is a Managing Director in the Debt Investments & Special Situations team is the Fund Manager for LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies IV and is responsible for originating, negotiating and executing transactions for clients and managed funds. Mr. Imraan has a 16-year track record of working in real estate, structured finance and investment banking having been involved in originating over £7bn of loans across Europe including UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain and CEE as well as structuring and distributing CMBS. Since joining LaSalle in 2016, Ali has originated and executed transactions for LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies II, III & IV and led the launch of LaSalle Whole Loan Strategies I and II (€900m committed capital)

Bryan is a managing director, head of the U.S. debt business, and chair of global debt for PGIM Real Estate. Based in Arlington, Bryan is responsible for overseeing PGIM Real Estate’s global debt strategy and execution, including oversight of U.S. real estate debt portfolio management, originations and credit teams, the agency lending business, and the agricultural finance and investments strategies. Bryan chairs the U.S. Debt Executive Council and is a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Global Management Council and the Global Operating Risk Committee.

Dale Lattanzio is the Managing Partner of DRC Capital, a dedicated investment advisor specialising in European real estate debt. The DRC team, having created the real estate debt investment platform while at Duet Private Equity, are investment advisors to the European Real Estate Debt Fund I and II, European Real Estate Senior Debt Program and Duet Real Estate Finance (DREF;LN) a London Stock Exchange listed company, as well as various managed accounts. Dale has held senior management positions in real estate and capital markets for over 20 years and was formerly Co-Head of Global Commercial Real Estate at Merrill Lynch.

Duncan MacPherson is a Managing Director and Head of Debt for Europe for Starwood Capital Group. In this role, Mr. MacPherson is responsible for all debt capital markets activities for Starwood Capital in Europe, including financing, foreign exchange and interest rate hedging for the Firm’s European investments. He is also responsible for originating, executing and managing debt investments for Starwood Property Trust and Starwood European Real Estate Finance. Prior to joining Starwood Capital in 2012, Mr. MacPherson spent six years at Citigroup, where he served as a Director on the commercial real estate finance team in London.

John joined M&G Investments in 2008 as Head of Real Estate Finance. . M&G provides senior, mezzanine and whole loan commercial mortgages and preferred equity investments for income producing, transitional and development assets in Western Europe and the US on behalf of Prudential Assurance Company and other global institutional investors. John previously spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs.

Kevin is the Co-Head of ICG Real Estate having joined Intermediate Capital Group plc in 2011. He is a Member of ICG Real Estate’s Investment and Asset Management Committees and ICG plc’s Management Committee. Kevin co-founded Longbow Real Estate Capital, a real estate private capital business, which was acquired by ICG in 2011. Prior to co-founding Longbow, Kevin was a Managing Director, and lead the market entry and expansion of GMAC within the U.K. Kevin spent his early career, from 1987-1996, in corporate banking, credit, and workout roles at Barclays Bank plc. Kevin was born in 1969, has a Masters’ degree in Business Administration from Cranfield School of Management, and is a Chartered Banker (ACIB). mezzanine and whole loans to th

Michael Zerda is the head of Europe for Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies group and is based in London. Mr. Zerda is focused on real estate debt investments across Europe. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Zerda spent six years at LaSalle Investment Management overseeing the set-up and growth of its debt investment and special situations group. Prior to that, Mr. Zerda worked in Merrill Lynch's real estate private equity group as a Vice President focused on pan-European equity investments and at Archon, Goldman Sachs’ real estate and distressed loan management platform. Mr. Zerda received a BA in Finance from the Neely School of Business at Texas Christian University.