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Emma Matebalavu
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EVENT MANAGERS
Loredana
Loredana Carollo
Director Southern EuropeGRI Club
Matheus Campion
Director Real Estate - UKGRI Club
United Kingdom
Discussions will touch on:
Power Continued - Can real estate co-exist with power companies to ensure a healthy asset life?
Underwriting - What are investors doing to help get to accurate liquidity?
Tenant & Operator Trends Impacting Supply/Demands Opportunities
Power Up! Development & Assets - How much depends on regulations and accessing power?
Accessing Institutional Investment
Power & the Environment - Know and map the carrot and sticks over the course of your deal
Power Landed - Strategic land, buy what and where?
Operators, Investors, Owners - Who’s got what risk?
Exit Strategies - Is there a silver lining or just grab what you can and hope for the bucks?
9:00 - 10:15
The Critical
Power, planning, regulation, risk and reward
- Understand Demand - Where are the hotspots to build, buy and develop?
- Understanding the Hyperscale Market - Working out the Operator, Owner, Investor and Lender dynamic
- Access to Power - Strategic land, co-location, partnerships and value drivers
- ESG: The Elephant in the Room - Tackling the rising importance of ESG mandates and their real (and perceived) impact on demand, regulation, operations, and growth
- Navigating Global Regulation and AI Laws -The evolving landscape of global regulations on AI, data and trade tariffs in order to anticipate their impact on occupier demand and investment decisions.
- Demand Drivers and the Role of Policy - How are FDI, EU-style regulations, and data sovereignty concerns are shaping demand — and how local governments and private sectors can accelerate data center builds.
10:45 - 11:45
Finance & Investment
Finding liquidity, underwriting opportunity and understanding the capital
- Mapping Demand and Supply - Who holds the cards in an increasingly fast-moving environment?
- Structuring Capital and Deals - Exploring financing options, access to capital, and innovative deal structures in today’s market
- Case Studies in Financing: Lessons from recent European DC financings, and evolving approaches to capital deployment
- Accessing Institutional Investment - Strategies for attracting and securing large-scale institutional capital
- Risk, Underwriting, and Exit Strategies - Understanding underwriting practices, who holds the risk across operators, investors, and owners? Debating realistic exit strategies in volatile conditions
Moderator
Emma Matebalavu
Partner, Global Head of Global Financial Markets
Clifford Chance
David
Smith
Chief Investment Officer
Echelon Data Centres
Ira
Panova
Director
CPP Investments
James
Halstead
CIO Value Add Real Estate
BlackRock
Justin
Hildebrandt
Sr. Managing Director - Head of Europe
Affinius Capital
Partha
Sarathy
Head of Asset Management
Pictet Group
Richard
Le Cras
Senior Director
Pure DC
Richard
Revess
Director
HELABA
Matt Taylor
PartnerClifford Chance
United Kingdom
Matt Taylor is a Partner in the Real Estate Practice at Clifford Chance and leads the UK data centre team. Matt also specialises in complex real estate matters, with a focus on joint ventures and indirect acquisitions/disposals, as well as large-scale occupier transactions. Matt's client base is international and includes the largest financial investors, sovereign wealth funds and property companies. Matt leads our thought leadership around PropTech and is also part of the core leadership team of the global Clifford Chance Tech Group. Matt is a Member of Clifford Chance's London inclusion committee, executive sponsor of Enable (Clifford Chance's Disability and Neurodiversity affinity group) and the lead partner for diversity and inclusion for UK Real Estate.
Christian Goldsmith
Senior Programme Director, Data Centres Global Solutions LeadArcadis - UK
United Kingdom
Dame Childs
CEOPure DC
United Kingdom
Dawn is the Chief Executive of Pure; an accomplished engineer and operator who was honoured with a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and appointed DBE in the 2023 New Year honours list for her services to engineering. After leading the operational arm of Pure for two years, ensuring the delivery of resilient 24/7 operations globally, Dawn moved into the role of CEO. Prior to joining Pure, her career spanned several engineering sectors and industries including UK Change Director for National Grid across both the gas and electricity transmission businesses; Group Engineering Director for Merlin Entertainments.
Mike Carlin
FounderLatos DC
United Kingdom
Tim O'Reilly
Director of Strategic PowerTritax Management Llp
United Kingdom
Tim joined Tritax in January 2022 after 10 years at National Grid working across a number of technical and leadership roles. He is responsible for power strategy across the Tritax Group – developing and implementing a co-ordinated, resilient and futureproof offering. His project experience spans managing significant asset management portfolios, developing cutting edge and innovative designs for the UK power system, and working on some of the UK’s largest projects. Most recently he was focused on the strategic development of the UK power system to facilitate net zero transition, notably developing in conjunction with government a national charging strategy for EVs and facilitating the connection of the first battery storage portfolios to the
Emma Matebalavu
Partner, Global Head of Global Financial MarketsClifford Chance
United Kingdom
Emma Matebalavu is a Partner, Global Head of Financial Markets at Clifford Chance and
Global Partner Sponsor for Accelerate, our gender parity network. She specialises in in all
forms of UK and European Real Estate Finance, CRE loan portfolio sales, CRE back leverage
and CMBS. Emma advises on data centre financings in particular she acted for Vantage on the
first European data centre ABS which won GlobalCapitalEuropean CRE Securitisation Deal
of the Year and Overall Securitisation Deal of the Year. Emma has been with the firm for 24
years and acts for a range of clients, particularly financial investors such as hedge funds and
debt funds, investment banks and insurance companies. Emma featured in The Lawyer Hot
100 List 2020, Financial News 100 Women in Finance 2022 awards, Leading Individual,
Property Finance, Legal 500 UK 2024 and Capital Markets: Securitisation, Chambers UK 2024
and Chambers Global 2023.
David Smith
Chief Investment OfficerEchelon Data Centres
United Kingdom
Ira Panova
DirectorCPP Investments
United Kingdom
Ira Panova is a Director in the Real Estate Investment team at CPP Investments based in London. Ira has been covering the Data Center strategy and origination since she joined CPPIB in 2017. In addition to that, she is responsible for origination, execution and asset management activity in the real estate sector across Europe. Prior to joining CPP Investments, Ira was a Vice President in the Real Estate Investment Banking team at JP Morgan, focused on M&A in the real estate sector across EMEA. She has also spent four years in Strategy Consulting at Charles River Associates in Boston, USA. Ira holds an MBA from Columbia Business School
James Halstead
CIO Value Add Real EstateBlackRock
United Kingdom
James Halstead, Director, is a member of BlackRock's Real Estate Team. He is responsible for sourcing and managing value add and opportunistic real estate investments in the UK, Ireland and Spain. Prior to joining BlackRock Mr. Halstead was a director at MGPA and lead Transactions team working on opportunistic pan-European acquisitions. Before this he practised as a corporate real estate lawyer at Berwin Leighton Paisner. He holds an MBA from London Business School and LLB from University of Southampton.
Justin Hildebrandt
Sr. Managing Director - Head of EuropeAffinius Capital
Netherlands
Justin Hildebrandt serves as Executive Managing Director, Head of Europe, for Affinius Capital, where he is responsible for overseeing all European operations and investments, including fund management, joint venture relationships, acquisitions, developments, and dispositions. Justin sits on the Board and is actively involved in the pan-European logistics joint venture, Mountpark Logistics EU Sarl, and its majority ownership of the Mountpark Logistics development company for which he is also CEO. In addition to the logistics businesses, Justin leads the firm's growing investment activities in Europe in purpose-built rental housing, data centers, and credit.
Partha Sarathy
Head of Asset ManagementPictet Group
United Kingdom
Richard Le Cras
Senior DirectorPure DC
United Kingdom
Richard Revess
DirectorHELABA
United Kingdom
Richard works in Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba)’s project finance team based in London focusing on digital infrastructure, energy transition, and economic infrastructure for the UK and Ireland but also in wider Europe following clients. This has involved arranging and lending to a number of landmark transactions including carbon capture and storage, fibre, data centres, offshore wind and PPPs, under corporate, acquisition and project finance structures. Prior to Helaba Richard worked in KPMG in their advisory and consulting business advising Government and private side clients on project finance transactions.
Timetable
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 10:15
Discussion
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45
Discussion
11:45 - 12:15
Closing Networking
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