France GRI 2021 will follow all the necessary health and safety protocols.
It’s necessary that the attendees present a negative PCR (within 48 hours or vaccination certificate (2nd dose at least 14 days prior) at the hotel reception.
France GRI is a gathering in Paris of senior investors, lenders and developers active in the French and European real estate market.
Much like a conversation in your own living room, these discussions’ exclusive format allows you to interact and engage freely among peers. Find the right partners for your business, build valuable relationships, and keep the conversation going.
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Timetable
13th September
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03:00pm - 04:15pm
Investment Cycle How to get rational values back?
GDP, interest rates & unemployment - Where are we headed in 2021-22?
Diversification as the only safety net?
Market Distortion - Non-cyclical cool down of the markets?
Inflation Risk - Increased concerns or not much to worry about?
04:45pm - 06:00pm
Digitalisation and the New Normal
Opportunities post-Covid
Digitisation & automation - improvement of prime asset rents?
How do landowners make better use of data?
The impact of COVID-19 - data-driven solutions to improve health and safety
Improving the occupant experience - new services and amenities
Paris vs Regions Demand Which has the more attractive metropolis potential?
Institutional Appetite - Flight to Paris or regional opportunities never better?
Commercial Core & Value Add - Repurposing Assets vs New Development Deals
Placemaking and Future of Urban Areas - How has COVID transformed the game?
Global Capital - Paris still a hot destination or any new hotspots?
14th September
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09:00am - 10:00am
Economic Update
France's economic outlook in the context of the European recovery
Inflation & Central Banks - What are the risks, any rewards?
Real Estate Prices & Interest Rates - Never better?
10:40am - 11:40am
Debt Leveraging Post COVID Banks or private funds, who's got the edge?
Asset Classes - Are hotels, retail & offices too risky?
Pricing - Senior, junior & mezzanine; how to stay competitive?
Debt Origins - Are foreign lenders looking to France as a safe haven or too much competition?
Risk Profile - Will lenders have to go up the risk curve post-COVID?
Co-Living, Senior & Student Housing Operators & Investors ready to go mainstream?
Institutional investment appetite: which asset classes are reaching maturity?
Emerging Trends - Alternative Active and Increasing Service Factor?
Demand and supply imbalance
Locations: emerging hotspots for different assets
12:10pm - 01:10pm
Opportunistic and value add Funders ready to play post COVID high stakes?
Private Equity - Dry powder impact on risk and price anticipation?
Asset Classes - Which ones are offering opportunities?
Financing - Any subsidised margins?
French Value Add Markets - How to identify future projects and ensure their quality and profit?
ESG
Time for action, but at what cost and for what income?
Creating Science-Based Net Zero Pathways & Targets
Best Practices - Who is ahead of the competition?
Reporting Sustainability & Impact Investment as Key Non-Traditional Real Estate Investment Factors?
Social Impact Value Returns - How to benchmark and measure impact for business sense?
Shared Value - Increasing business value through ESG considerations
Mixed-Use, Flex Space & Third Places What are tomorrow's alternative asset's values?
Emerging Trends - Alternative assets & rise of the service factor?
Flexible Space - Shorter leases the only way forward?
Blurred Asset Classes - Mixed use & the continued rise of shared economy?
Before joining RedTree Capital in early 2015, Agnes Defix was Associate Director of the Carlyle Group, she joined in 2001 as Asset Manager for the European fund. Agnes Defix was in charge of value creation and sales of French and Belgian assets, mainly for the offices and residential portfolio. During her 13 years with Carlyle, she managed approximately 175,000 sqm of office space, overseeing the major restructuring of Parisian buildings, rental marketing, negotiations for leasing and selling. Agnes Defix was also in charge of the condominium conversion of 1,200 residential units in Paris and Lyon.
Alexandra Vaquin is Stam Europe's Head of Acquisitions. Prior to joining Stam Europe, Vaquin was a director at SG Real Estate Advisory (Société Générale Group), where she advised the group's clients (Société Générale Assurance, family office, private clients and corporates) in their real estate investment strategy (origination and execution) and asset management (sales, forward purchases/development contracts monitoring). Previously, she worked for more than 10 years for a pan-European real estate investment fund, Revcap, in London. As an associate partner, she was responsible for value-added real estate transactions through co-investments with local operating partners. She also worked in real estate debt management in London (LNR Partners)
Arnaud Taverne
Directeur GénéralCDC Investissement Immobilier
France
Arnaud Taverne est diplômé de l’Université Paris IX Dauphine d’un Magistère Banque Finance Assurance (License, Master 1 et Master 2) et d’un Master 2 (DEA) en Economie et Finance internationale. Il a débuté sa carrière chez PWC en 1997 (Auditeur Senior Banques et Assurance) avant de rejoindre Arthur Andersen en 2000 (Restructuring Transaction Advisory Services Paris, Senior Manager).En 2006, il a intégré la Direction Financière de Veolia Transport en tant que Responsable acquisitions. Il a rejoint la Direction Financière du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts fin 2007 au sein du département immobilier compte propre et a pris la direction générale deCDC Investissement Immobilier (anciennement CDC GPI) en juillet 2014.
Cédric Dujardin est nommé depuis Septembre 2019 Managing Director dans l’équipe Investissement Immobilier de BlackRock. Basé à Paris, il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds immobiliers de BlackRock en France, Italie et Belgique, sous la responsabilité de Justin Brown, Head of Real Estate Europe. Cédric Dujardin dispose de près de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fonds, avec une expertise liée à l’impact environnemental et sociétal des actifs immobiliers. Avant de rejoindre BlackRock, il était Directeur des opérations immobilières pour la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg chez DWS. Il avait précédemment été Directeur Investissements Europe chez Ivanhoé Cambridge et occupé différentes fonctions chez Gécina.
Charles de Guerry is Managing Director at Meeschaert Capital Partners, leading the French platform of Real Estate investments. He has over 14 years of experience in real estate, with a primary expertise in value-add deals. Prior to joining Meeschaert Capital Partners, Charles worked for 12 years at BlackRock Real Estate in London and Paris, successively in acquisitions and in asset management, before taking charge of the French platform for real estate investments. Charles started his career in 2006 at Nomura in London, working on the financing of value-add transactions.
With over 18 years of experience in real estate transactions and management, Christel has started to lead the Société de la Tour Eiffel in November 2021.
Cyrille joined Klépierre in 2014 as Head of M&A. From 2007 he worked for HSBC Investment banking in Paris where he started the M&A real estate team in 2009. Cyrille started his career at Deloitte in France and thereafter in the US doing due diligence for private equity funds.
CEO Wainbridge France Deputy CEO and CFO The CollectionWainbridge
France
Edouard serves as Head of France and Caribbean and Board member of Wainbridge International with overall responsibility for development, acquisition, structuring, financing, construction, and market research activity. He plays an active role in originating and executing deals, as well as in tracking investment performance. His overall responsibility includes development, acquisition, structuring, financing, construction, and market research activity.
Edouard is also co-founder and deputy CEO of The Collection (www.the-c.com).
Emanuele Dubini
President-France & Senior Partner IberiaDEA Capital Real Estate France
France
Emanuele Dubini joined, as Managing Partner, DeA Capital Real Estate Building up the French Operations. DeA Capital Real Estate France IS Part of DeA Capital pan-European real estate Expansion Via Group Subsidiaries Through Local Senior Management Teams.The Company, headquarter in Paris, is a joint venture between the DeA Capital Group and a local Senior Management team with a proven track record in the French real estate sector. Emanuele has a proven experience and knowledge of the sector, having held numerous senior leadership roles in companies in Europe and the USA.
Eric Salmon is a Partner and member of BauMont’s Investment Committee. Based in Paris, he is responsible Fund investments in France. Prior to co-founding BauMont, Mr. Salmon was a director with CarVal Investors.
Previously Mr. Salmon was based in London where he worked at LaSalle Investment Management in the special situations group. Mr. Salmon started his career with Lehman Brothers in the real estate investment banking group.
A Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines graduate, Franck Lirzin has held various positions with the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. His career path since 2006 has taken him to the cabinet of the French Minister for Economic Affairs, Emmanuel Macron. Previously Deputy Chief of Staff for the French Secretary of State for Industry, Digital and Innovation, Franck joined Gecina as Executive Director Residential in 2017.
Executive Director Grégoire Deramecourt began his career in 2006 in Mergers and Acquisitions within the Aviva group then at Rothschild & Cie. In 2010, he joined JLL's Corporate Consulting and Transactions Services department, which is dedicated to users. In 2013, he became Senior Asset Manager at Aviva Investors Real Estate France. Since 2018, he was head of AEW's Asset Management Offices, where he was responsible for more than 1.5 billion arbitrations. Grégoire is graduated of IPAG Paris and EM Lyon Business School.
Inès Reinmann began her career in 1980 with the Dumez group. In 1988, she joined Bouygues as Development Manager. She then continued her career at Coprim from 1989 to 2000, where she held various management positions. In 2000, she became MD of Icade Tertial, In 2004, she became the Business Property Market Director at Icade. She is also the President of Icade EMGP, Icade Tertial, Icade Eurogem and Icade Gestion Tertiaire. In 2007 she was MD for Continental Europe at Segro PLC. In 2010 she was appointed partner at Acxior and CEO of Acxior Immo in 2012. In 2014, she becomes Managing Director in charge of Real Estate. Ines is a non exec board member at Gecina and Cofinimmo
Jean-Philippe Besse
Chief Business Development OfficerAccenta
France
Jean-Philippe Besse is Chief Business Development Officer at Accenta, which is a leader of decarbonization solutions for real estate.
Prior to Accenta, he was MD, Head of Investor Relations - Europe at Colony Capital from 2017 to 2022.
Prior to Colony Capital, he was co-founder and partner at La Française Asset Management, a leading asset manager in Europe, as Head of International Development.
He started his professional career within the AXA Group in New York and Paris, where he was Head of Marketing for AXA financial products.
Mr. Besse graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and he is an actuary.
Head of RE Investments France/BeluxJ.P. Morgan Asset Management
France
Jean-Philippe Vergnol is president of JPMAM Real Estate France and serves as Head of Acquisitions for France. With JPM for 17 years, Jean-Philippe successfully deployed both core capital for sovereign wealth funds and value- add capital for commingled funds. Prior to joining JPM in 2006, he was Head of Acquisitions at DTZ AM for 6 years where he advised opportunistic investors. Prior to that he was in Archon Group’s acquisition team analysing investment opportunities on behalf of the Whitehall Funds. Jean-Philippe holds a first class specialized Masters of Private Banking & Financial Planning from ESCP-EAP and a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the ESLSCA Business School. He is fluent in French and English.
Laurent Diot is CEO of HARVESTATE Asset Management. He was previously the CFO of NEXITY, leading French developer, from 2008 to early 2014. He has served as Vice President of NEXITY in charge of international operations and CEO of NEXITY International (2002-2007) and as Vice President, Business Development of NEXITY (2000-2002) in charge of mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the CGIS (Compagnie Générale d'Immobilier et de Services) in the Vivendi group as Director of Audit and Strategy (1996-2000), he served as project manager at the Compagnie des Eaux et de l'Ozone (Générale des Eaux Group). He holds a degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.).
Mr. Pham is a Senior Fund & Portfolio Manager at Swiss Life Asset Managers, responsible for acquisitions in France, Belgium and Luxembourg for Swiss Life’s German and Swiss funds, as well as sourcing, structuring and executing deals in Italy, Spain and Portugal for the group. Prior to that, he was at GE Real Estate in a number of roles, the last one being European Head of Portfolio Management, as well as at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was a Principal responsible for investments in France. Mr. Pham also worked as a project engineer for the City of Vancouver. Mr. Pham holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from McGill University, a Masters in Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Expériences since October 2018 – Managing Director Constructa Asset Management - From June 2015 – October 2018 - Constructa Asset Management- Portfolio Director ( Retail and Offices) -2015 - 20009: The Retail Consulting GROUP -Retail Asset Management Partner -2009 - 2006: ACOFI National Investment Manager -2006 - 2000 : Wereldhave- Retail and Office Asset Manager RICS : Chartered Surveyor – MRICS – ESSEC : Master Management Real Estate – Université Aix en Provence – Marseille : Master in Law and Real Estate
Real estate specialist and entrepreneur. Patrice has 30 years of experience in real estate as executive manager, entrepreneur and investor working cross-borders with international clients and business partners. Patrice has raised, invested and managed over 10 billion € (equity and debt) for French/European and international institutional clients.
Philippe Duvergne
Managing Director Origination Europepbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
France
Philippe Duvergne is a Managing Director for Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and is based in Paris. Philippe, who has over 25 years work experience in real estate and banking, started his career at Group Paribas where he fulfilled a number of functions. In 2000, he joined The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was part of the new team which created the Real Estate Business. He focuses on origination and execution of domestic and cross-border structured real estate finance in France.
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)La Banque Postale
France
Priscilla joined La Banque Postale in 2016 to create the arrangement desk of Structured Real Estate Loans and is currently Head of the Real Estate Lending Department (Structured loans mainly for PE investors / funds and development loans for property developers). She has a 10-year experience in corporate and investment banking with CaCib in New York and Paris and an above 15 -year experience in origination and execution of Real Estate Lending transactions in CaCib, DekaBank and currently La Banque Postale. She also had a 4-year experience as debt advisor in Hong Kong and is professor at Edhec in Real Estate Finance since 2009. Priscilla graduated from Edhec Business School and Oxford Brookes University. She is MRICS since 2016.
Rémi has 24 years of experience in the real estate industry and leads the Firm’s activities in France. Prior to joining Benson Elliot in 2006, Rémi was an Investment Manager at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was responsible for four real estate portfolios in France and Italy. Previously, Rémi spent six years at Archon Group (a Goldman Sachs Group company), latterly as Portfolio Manager where he managed five portfolios valued at €1.8bn. Rémi holds a Masters in Finance & Real Estate from Paris University XII and a Bachelor’s in Law & Tax from the Sorbonne University. Rémi is a native French speaker and is fluent in Italian.
Sandrine has worked in the European Real Estate market for 18 years, and in Real Estate debt since 2005. Sandrine Amsili joined SCOR Investment Partners in November 2013 as Senior Real Estate Debt Manager. She was promoted to Head of Real Estate Debt on the 1st of December, 2018. Sandrine started her career in 2002 as an Acquisition Analyst for several real estate investment funds at CBRE Investors. In 2004, she became Asset Manager for French and German assets. She joined Eurohypo Bank in 2005 as a Credit Manager before being appointed Business Manager in the Origination department, in 2007. Sandrine holds a Master’s degree in Finance from EDHEC Business School. She has been a member of RICS since 2016.
Head of French Branch,UK and BeneluxGenerali Real Estate
France
Sebastien Pezet joined Generali Real Estate in 2001. Nominated as Head of the French Branch in 2015, he is also in charge of UK, Benelux from January 2018 with a total portfolio of €11 billion. Previously he worked 2 years for Archon Group ( Goldman Sachs subsidiary ). Sebastien obtained a Master in Economics and a Master in Real Estate from the University of Paris Dauphine, and is a Chartered Accountant.
Stéphanie joined LBO France in 2003 in order to develop the real estate funds activity. She began her career in Morgan Stanley’s real estate department in London in 1999 then joined the Paris office to work on the MSREF real estate fund. She then moved to the bank’s corporate finance division. In 2002 she joined KPMG’s Marseille operation where she helped to develop the firm’s corporate finance department. Stéphanie graduated from ESSEC Business school.
Head of Investment and Asset ManagementAG Real Estate
France
Thibault Delamain, MRICS, is responsible for AG Real Estate investment and asset management in France. Thibault is in charge of defining and implementing the investment strategy for 1,2 b€ AUM (office, retail, Logistics and diversifies assets). Thibault has 14 years of experience in the field of real estate for private and Institutional Investors.
Frédéric is Managing Partner of Mozaïc AM and has over 15 years experience in the healthcare sector. MoZaïC manages over 250M€ of healthcare assets over 4 geographies (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) Prior to this, he was the President of Senior Santé, an owner and operator of nursing homes in France. During his tenure, he was responsible for operations developing the group's operating model and processes. During that period it funded, developed, built, delivered and sold 11 nursing homes (circa 50,000 m2). Before Senior Santé/B-Patrimoine, Frédéric held various positions within HSBC (London) and Lazard (New York and London) Frédéric graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris and speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
Head of Real Estate France & Head of Living StrategiesSchroder Investment Management
France
Hideki Kurata is Head of Real Estate France & Head of Living Strategies at Schroders Capital.
He has over 25 years of experience in financial services and real estate and has previously held positions at Greystar, AXA IM, GE Capital, JP Morgan and BNP Paribas.
Hideki holds a master’s degree in economics from Paris X University, is a graduate of ESCP Business School and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Isabelle Clerc est Directeur de l’immobilier de placement d’AG2R LA MONDIALE. Isabelle Clerc, 45 ans, est diplômée de l’École nationale des ponts et chaussées et Membre de la Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). Elle était jusqu’alors Directeur de la gestion des fonds Grand Public chez NAMI-AEW Europe. Isabelle Clerc exerce depuis 20 ans ses responsabilités au sein de la Direction des investissements immobiliers d’acteurs majeurs tels que AEW Europe, Unibail-Rodamco, RREEF et BNP Paribas Real Estate.
José Antonio de Pedro Cuadrado
PartnerFluxus Ventures LLP
Spain
Jose is Partner at Fluxus Ventures since April 2020. Prior to that, he co-founded Fluxus Ventures, Commuty Asset Management in 2016 focused on developing and managing value-added funds. With more than €200M of AUM of track record, he has focused his career on innovative usages such as coliving and coworking. Developing the first coliving assets in Spain in 2018, operated by Urban Campus. Currently, he, along with the Fluxus team, focuses on launching new funds to invest in coliving and managing residential with a strong focus on ESG & digital transformation.
He holds an MsC in Industrial Engineering degree with a major in Structural Engineering - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. And B. Architecture - École Nationale d’Architecure Paris.
Cyrille joined Klépierre in 2014 as Head of M&A. From 2007 he worked for HSBC Investment banking in Paris where he started the M&A real estate team in 2009. Cyrille started his career at Deloitte in France and thereafter in the US doing due diligence for private equity funds.
MD, REF Continental Europe Westpbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Norbert Müller is Managing Director at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, in charge of Real Estate Finance in Continental Europe West (Scandinavia, Benelux, France and Spain) with teams in Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Madrid. He has been working in the property industry for more than 30 years of which more than 10 years as International Director in the Capital Markets Group at Jones Lang LaSalle. Norbert Müller has in-depth knowledge of and experience in most of the real estate markets on the Continent, including Germany. He speaks fluently German, French, English and Dutch.
A Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines graduate, Franck Lirzin has held various positions with the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. His career path since 2006 has taken him to the cabinet of the French Minister for Economic Affairs, Emmanuel Macron. Previously Deputy Chief of Staff for the French Secretary of State for Industry, Digital and Innovation, Franck joined Gecina as Executive Director Residential in 2017.
Arnaud Fety
Head of Institutional InvestmentAegide-Domitys
France
My current position: European Director institutional Investment for AEGIDE-DOMITYS the European Leader for Seniors Living (non medicalized) 140 Résidences open Sept 2021
In charge of the sales to Intitutionnal Investors. I'm Chartered Suveyors, FRICS.
Entrepreneur and Senior executive with strong business development capacities, experiences in Team Management, in Investment process and solid track record in Real Estate Transactional experience across both France and Continental Europe.
Very strong personal and professional ethics (RICS)
Experiences:
I used to work for a German Company IVG Asset Management Immobilien AG , as Managing Director, Head of the French Branch.
Residential - Student Housing - Senior Housing
Edouard Deschepper
CEO Wainbridge France Deputy CEO and CFO The CollectionWainbridge
France
Edouard serves as Head of France and Caribbean and Board member of Wainbridge International with overall responsibility for development, acquisition, structuring, financing, construction, and market research activity. He plays an active role in originating and executing deals, as well as in tracking investment performance. His overall responsibility includes development, acquisition, structuring, financing, construction, and market research activity.
Edouard is also co-founder and deputy CEO of The Collection (www.the-c.com).
Grégoire Deramecourt
Managing DirectorColliers Global Investors
France
Executive Director Grégoire Deramecourt began his career in 2006 in Mergers and Acquisitions within the Aviva group then at Rothschild & Cie. In 2010, he joined JLL's Corporate Consulting and Transactions Services department, which is dedicated to users. In 2013, he became Senior Asset Manager at Aviva Investors Real Estate France. Since 2018, he was head of AEW's Asset Management Offices, where he was responsible for more than 1.5 billion arbitrations. Grégoire is graduated of IPAG Paris and EM Lyon Business School.
Real estate specialist and entrepreneur. Patrice has 30 years of experience in real estate as executive manager, entrepreneur and investor working cross-borders with international clients and business partners. Patrice has raised, invested and managed over 10 billion € (equity and debt) for French/European and international institutional clients.
Core Offices Flight to Quality, Bid & Ask Gap Too Wide?
Core & Core+ - Which assets will lose in valuations?
CBD & Prime Locations - What has changed?
Investor Appetite - Capital allocations still going strong or too much risk?
Head of Investment & Divestment FranceGenerali Real Estate
France
Sophie Colin Sansier joined Generali Real Estate as the Head of Investment and Divestment in 2014. Prior to this date, she has developed a consolidated experience during more than 15 years in the real estate market, holding senior positions such as Head of Investments in Beacon Capital Partners France and in charge of development, disposals and renovations for third parties at Bouygues Immobilier. She graduated from the ESSEC and holds a Master’s degree in economics and in finance.
Cédric Dujardin est nommé depuis Septembre 2019 Managing Director dans l’équipe Investissement Immobilier de BlackRock. Basé à Paris, il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds immobiliers de BlackRock en France, Italie et Belgique, sous la responsabilité de Justin Brown, Head of Real Estate Europe. Cédric Dujardin dispose de près de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fonds, avec une expertise liée à l’impact environnemental et sociétal des actifs immobiliers. Avant de rejoindre BlackRock, il était Directeur des opérations immobilières pour la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg chez DWS. Il avait précédemment été Directeur Investissements Europe chez Ivanhoé Cambridge et occupé différentes fonctions chez Gécina.
President / Head of Investments FranceCBRE Investment Management France
France
Gautier Beurnier is President of CBRE Investment Management France and responsible for sourcing french deals for pan European and domestic funds and for international clients through club deals and separate account mandates. Gautier has over 30 years of experience in real estate and risk management, previously as CEO for ATEMI, a French real estate developer and asset management company. He has also worked for Unibail in Paris as well as Marsh Inc in New York, where he specialized in alternative risk finance and risk management consulting.
Philip B. Gaillard is a Managing Director of HRO. Since joining in 1997, he has been instrumental in developing, leasing and selling many of HRO's projects in the Paris Region. Philip holds an AB degree in Economics and MBA in Real Estate, both obtained from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Since 1997, HRO has been a key player in Europe's dominant cities developing over 600,000 m² of offices occupied by some of the world's leading corporations. HRO provides a full range of advisory and asset management services to institutional clients
Managing Director Origination Europepbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
France
Philippe Duvergne is a Managing Director for Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and is based in Paris. Philippe, who has over 25 years work experience in real estate and banking, started his career at Group Paribas where he fulfilled a number of functions. In 2000, he joined The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was part of the new team which created the Real Estate Business. He focuses on origination and execution of domestic and cross-border structured real estate finance in France.
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez is a founding partner of Black Swan Real Estate Capital since 2021. He has more than 15 years of experience in European real estate investment, asset management and business development. Prior to joining Black Swan Real Estate Capital, Rouzbeh was heading investment and asset management activities at Dea Capital in France. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for sourcing and execution for Freo France. He also gained experience of equity and debt structuring as head of business development at Paref and he was responsible for international funds. He started his career as investment and asset management at Atemi (French Lehman Brothers asset management company). Rouzbeh graduated from Bordeaux Business School
Tania Bontemps is President of Union Investment Real Estate France, leading the Paris subsidiary since 2011. She has over 17 years of experience in general management, investment and asset management, leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams for international real estate companies. Prior to joining the real estate sector, Tania started her career in the high-tech sector with the Japanese-American group Senko in Boston (USA). When she moved to Paris in 2003, she joined Renta Corporacion, a listed property company. With Renta as Managing Director, she was in charge of acquisitions and asset management for the French, English and German markets. Tania joined Union Investment in 2011 as Managing Director of the French management company.
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)
La Banque Postale
Benjamin Bill
PartnerCMS Francis Lefebvre
France
Benjamin has extensive experience in the work with clients on complex real estate operations. He advises on a broad range of aspects related to it, including acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies, of French or pan-European portfolios, the structuring of projects and the negotiation of JV and partnership agreements.
Benjamin’s work covers all asset classes (office, retail, logistics, hotel and leisure, residential…).
Benjamin’s work also covers property development transactions, commercial leases and management agreements.
Adrien joined Aviva Investors Real Estate in January 2019 as Head of Asset Management for Continental Europe and managing director for AIREF SA. He is responsible for developing Aviva Investors’ Asset Management platform across continental Europe, leading teams in Paris and Frankfurt. Adrien has 15 years’ experience in a variety of roles within the real estate sector, including in asset management, transactions, fund management and M&A. He joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, where he held the position of Head of Investments France since March 2018. Previously, Adrien worked at Standard Life Investments, AXA Real Estate France, General Electric Real Estate, Société Générale and PwC.
Christophe Bouthors
CEOGroupe Panhard
France
Christophe Bouthors graduated from EDHEC business school, he started his career in 1996 within the Audit company ARTHUR ANDERSEN, in France and in the USA, where he led for 10 years consultancy missions for private equity funds. From 2004 to 2010, Christophe Bouthors took several management positions within AKERYS, which was then one of the major actors in the residential properties in France. He’s nominated CFO in 2007. He then spent 2 years, at ALVAREZ & MARSAL, one of the world leader in management consultancy, time during which he led several consulting missions and interim management. He joined « Groupe Panhard » in 2012 as Chief Executive and became chairman of the executive management board in 2017.
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)La Banque Postale
France
Priscilla joined La Banque Postale in 2016 to create the arrangement desk of Structured Real Estate Loans and is currently Head of the Real Estate Lending Department (Structured loans mainly for PE investors / funds and development loans for property developers). She has a 10-year experience in corporate and investment banking with CaCib in New York and Paris and an above 15 -year experience in origination and execution of Real Estate Lending transactions in CaCib, DekaBank and currently La Banque Postale. She also had a 4-year experience as debt advisor in Hong Kong and is professor at Edhec in Real Estate Finance since 2009. Priscilla graduated from Edhec Business School and Oxford Brookes University. She is MRICS since 2016.
Head of Investment and Asset ManagementAG Real Estate
France
Thibault Delamain, MRICS, is responsible for AG Real Estate investment and asset management in France. Thibault is in charge of defining and implementing the investment strategy for 1,2 b€ AUM (office, retail, Logistics and diversifies assets). Thibault has 14 years of experience in the field of real estate for private and Institutional Investors.
Benjamin Cartier-Bresson, 46, is head of Berlin Hyp representative office in Paris. Cartier-Bresson has extensive knowledge of the French commercial property market. He has specialised in property debt structuring since 2002. He is a former officer of the Royal Bank of Scotland and of Credit Suisse, where he was in charge of debt origination until 2008. More recently he held a senior position at DekaBank.
Directeur général adjoint au Développement économique et aux partenariats stratégiquesGrand Paris Aménagement
France
Il a été précédemment pendant 3 ans Directeur de la Commercialisation des bureaux en France pour Covivio, une des principales foncières cotées européennes. De 2007 à 2013, à la Métropole de Lyon, il participe notamment au grand projet de redéveloppement du quartier de la Part-Dieu à Lyon, comme Directeur du Projet économique sur les sujets tertiaire, commerce, innovation, hôtellerie. De 2014 à 2017, il est Directeur de la Stratégie, du marketing et de l’international à l’Etablissement Public d’Aménagement de la Défense Seine Arche (EPADESA).
Oubay Churbaji
Key Accounts General ManagerAltarea
France
Ingénieur Architecte et DESS des Ponts et Chaussées, Master de Management de l’ESTP, il a commencé sa carrière en 1999 au sein du Groupe Bouygues en tant que chargé d’affaires chez Screg Bâtiment. Dès 2002, il est en charge du développement et du montage financier chez Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France. Il rejoint Bouygues Immobilier en 2005 comme Chef de Service en charge du développement des Grandes Affaires et des Projets Urbains puis, en 2009, du développement de projets tertiaires clé-en-main pour le compte d’Utilisateurs et de Grands comptes en France et en Europe. Il rejoint Altarea-Cogedim début 2013 pour prendre la direction du développement et du montage des opérations tertiaires en Régions. En 2015, il est nommé DG.
ESG
Time for action, but at what cost and for what income?
Creating Science-Based Net Zero Pathways & Targets
Best Practices - Who is ahead of the competition?
Reporting Sustainability & Impact Investment as Key Non-Traditional Real Estate Investment Factors?
Social Impact Value Returns - How to benchmark and measure impact for business sense?
Shared Value - Increasing business value through ESG considerations
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)
La Banque Postale
Eric Cosserat
CEOPerial
France
Diplômé de l'ISG en 1987, Eric Cosserat débute sa carrière dans une banque française à New York, après quoi il revient en France pour travailler dans l'entreprise familiale, PERIAL. Ses premières fonctions reposent sur la diversification des produits financiers tels que les assurances vie et comptes immobiliers, les OPCVM, puis la gestion des SCPI et la responsabilité du service clients et des transactions immobilières. Sept ans après, il devient Directeur Général puis, en 1999, il est nommé Président du Directoire du groupe. Eric Cosserat est également Administrateur de l’ASPIM (Association Française des Sociétés de Placement Immobilier) et Administrateur de l’IEIF (Institut de l’Epargne Immobilière et Foncière).
Arnaud Guennoc is CEO of AG Real Estate France and also in charge of real estate development department. Arnaud Guennoc joined AG Real Estate in 2012 to develop real estate development activity. Currently AG Real Estate France is developing a dozen projects representing nearly 400,000 sqm. Among the most significant projects is the Hekla tower at La Défense and designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, whose delivery is expected in 2022; As Bruneseau project mixed neighborhood of 100,000 sqm located in Paris 13. This project will determine a new way of inhabiting the ring road. ESTP engineer by training, Arnaud Guennoc began his career in 1999 in the real estate department of Kaufman & Broad, before continuing from 2004 to 2012 in Generali RE.
Head of International Real Estate FinanceBerlin Hyp
Germany
Assem El Alami is the Head of the International Real Estate Finance Sales Division of Berlin Hyp AG. As such he supervises four sales teams: Origination International Investors based in Berlin, as well as the offices in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Berlin Hyp's loan book accounts for approximately 26 bn EUR. Being a law graduate, Assem has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate sector of which he has spent 10 years in France. He joined Berlin Hyp in 2010.
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Berlin Hyp is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBBW and specialises in large-volume real estate financing for professional investors and housing companies. It also provides German savings banks with a comprehensive range of products and services.
DirectorInstitut Français pour la Performance du Bâtiment (IFPEB)
France
Jean-Philippe Besse
Chief Business Development OfficerAccenta
France
Jean-Philippe Besse is Chief Business Development Officer at Accenta, which is a leader of decarbonization solutions for real estate.
Prior to Accenta, he was MD, Head of Investor Relations - Europe at Colony Capital from 2017 to 2022.
Prior to Colony Capital, he was co-founder and partner at La Française Asset Management, a leading asset manager in Europe, as Head of International Development.
He started his professional career within the AXA Group in New York and Paris, where he was Head of Marketing for AXA financial products.
Mr. Besse graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and he is an actuary.
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)La Banque Postale
France
Priscilla joined La Banque Postale in 2016 to create the arrangement desk of Structured Real Estate Loans and is currently Head of the Real Estate Lending Department (Structured loans mainly for PE investors / funds and development loans for property developers). She has a 10-year experience in corporate and investment banking with CaCib in New York and Paris and an above 15 -year experience in origination and execution of Real Estate Lending transactions in CaCib, DekaBank and currently La Banque Postale. She also had a 4-year experience as debt advisor in Hong Kong and is professor at Edhec in Real Estate Finance since 2009. Priscilla graduated from Edhec Business School and Oxford Brookes University. She is MRICS since 2016.
Pierre Leocadio is responsible for Oxford Properties’ French platform, including the responsibility of the asset management and leasing strategies for the existing Paris portfolio. Oxford Properties currently owns and manages a portfolio of four offices and one luxury high street retail in Paris, totalling approximately €1.5 billion of assets under management.
Christophe Burckart, est Directeur Général France de IWG, leader mondial des espaces de travail flexibles et innovants. A ce titre, il est en charge de conduire les activités opérationnelles et la profitabilité des marques du groupe telles que Regus et Spaces et siège au conseil de surveillance de Stop&Work, autre réseau de tiers lieux innovants, dont IWG est actionnaire majoritaire. Il est également responsable de définir et de mettre en œuvre les initiatives de croissance, s’associant à des acteurs-clés du marché au travers de partenariats stratégiques. Diplômé de l’Institut Supérieur de Commerce, Paris il a développé sa carrière dans le secteur de l’informatique au sein d’IBM, Compaq, Compaq, HP, Dell et d’Honeywell Safety Products.
Cédric Dujardin est nommé depuis Septembre 2019 Managing Director dans l’équipe Investissement Immobilier de BlackRock. Basé à Paris, il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds immobiliers de BlackRock en France, Italie et Belgique, sous la responsabilité de Justin Brown, Head of Real Estate Europe. Cédric Dujardin dispose de près de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fonds, avec une expertise liée à l’impact environnemental et sociétal des actifs immobiliers. Avant de rejoindre BlackRock, il était Directeur des opérations immobilières pour la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg chez DWS. Il avait précédemment été Directeur Investissements Europe chez Ivanhoé Cambridge et occupé différentes fonctions chez Gécina.
Guillaume has an 18-year experience in the real estate industry and is Managing Partner at FARO CAPITAL PARTNERS, a boutique real estate investment and asset management company. He held senior positions at AEW and CBRE Global Investors from 2006 to 2017. Fellow member of the RICS, Guillaume holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from ESTP School and a Master’s Degree in Finance and Real Estate from Paris Dauphine University – where he is also a teacher.
Head of RE Investments France/BeluxJ.P. Morgan Asset Management
France
Jean-Philippe Vergnol is president of JPMAM Real Estate France and serves as Head of Acquisitions for France. With JPM for 17 years, Jean-Philippe successfully deployed both core capital for sovereign wealth funds and value- add capital for commingled funds. Prior to joining JPM in 2006, he was Head of Acquisitions at DTZ AM for 6 years where he advised opportunistic investors. Prior to that he was in Archon Group’s acquisition team analysing investment opportunities on behalf of the Whitehall Funds. Jean-Philippe holds a first class specialized Masters of Private Banking & Financial Planning from ESCP-EAP and a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from the ESLSCA Business School. He is fluent in French and English.
Mr. Pham is a Senior Fund & Portfolio Manager at Swiss Life Asset Managers, responsible for acquisitions in France, Belgium and Luxembourg for Swiss Life’s German and Swiss funds, as well as sourcing, structuring and executing deals in Italy, Spain and Portugal for the group. Prior to that, he was at GE Real Estate in a number of roles, the last one being European Head of Portfolio Management, as well as at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was a Principal responsible for investments in France. Mr. Pham also worked as a project engineer for the City of Vancouver. Mr. Pham holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from McGill University, a Masters in Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Pierre Leocadio is responsible for Oxford Properties’ French platform, including the responsibility of the asset management and leasing strategies for the existing Paris portfolio. Oxford Properties currently owns and manages a portfolio of four offices and one luxury high street retail in Paris, totalling approximately €1.5 billion of assets under management.
Xavier is a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors at AG Real Estate, a Brussels based real estate investor and developer with an international and diversified portfolio under management in excess of €6bn. As Chief Development Officer, he is responsible for all development projects of the group representing a 1.000.000 m² pipeline. Xavier is also Chairman of AG Real Estate France. Prior to his current positions, Xavier was Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Cofinimmo. Xavier graduated from UCL as Civil Engineer Architect, received an MBA from INSEAD and attended different executive programmes at the Harvard Business School. Xavier is Past Chair of the Urban Land Institute for Belgium & Luxembourg.
Stéphanie joined LBO France in 2003 in order to develop the real estate funds activity. She began her career in Morgan Stanley’s real estate department in London in 1999 then joined the Paris office to work on the MSREF real estate fund. She then moved to the bank’s corporate finance division. In 2002 she joined KPMG’s Marseille operation where she helped to develop the firm’s corporate finance department. Stéphanie graduated from ESSEC Business school.
Jean-Philippe Besse is Chief Business Development Officer at Accenta, which is a leader of decarbonization solutions for real estate.
Prior to Accenta, he was MD, Head of Investor Relations - Europe at Colony Capital from 2017 to 2022.
Prior to Colony Capital, he was co-founder and partner at La Française Asset Management, a leading asset manager in Europe, as Head of International Development.
He started his professional career within the AXA Group in New York and Paris, where he was Head of Marketing for AXA financial products.
Mr. Besse graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and he is an actuary.
Laurent Tarneaud is a Principal in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Group, based in London. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2018, Laurent was an Associate at Square Mile Capital Management in New York. Laurent received a B.S. from Georgetown University.
MD, Head of REF Int. Clients Francepbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
France
Olivier Katan is a Managing Director for pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank , Head of International Clients, France. Before joining pbb in October 2013, he headed since 2005 the Origination team for France at Eurohypo AG. Olivier, who has over 20 years work experience in structured and asset finance, was previously responsible for LBO and asset financing at CDC Ixis and CLF Dexia. He focuses on origination and structuring of “tailor made” financing solutions for international clients buying real estate assets or portfolios in France and throughout Europe. He holds a postgraduate MSc in International Finance from HEC school of management Paris and he is a civil engineer (ESTP).
Laurent Diot is CEO of HARVESTATE Asset Management. He was previously the CFO of NEXITY, leading French developer, from 2008 to early 2014. He has served as Vice President of NEXITY in charge of international operations and CEO of NEXITY International (2002-2007) and as Vice President, Business Development of NEXITY (2000-2002) in charge of mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the CGIS (Compagnie Générale d'Immobilier et de Services) in the Vivendi group as Director of Audit and Strategy (1996-2000), he served as project manager at the Compagnie des Eaux et de l'Ozone (Générale des Eaux Group). He holds a degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.).
Arnaud Taverne est diplômé de l’Université Paris IX Dauphine d’un Magistère Banque Finance Assurance (License, Master 1 et Master 2) et d’un Master 2 (DEA) en Economie et Finance internationale. Il a débuté sa carrière chez PWC en 1997 (Auditeur Senior Banques et Assurance) avant de rejoindre Arthur Andersen en 2000 (Restructuring Transaction Advisory Services Paris, Senior Manager).En 2006, il a intégré la Direction Financière de Veolia Transport en tant que Responsable acquisitions. Il a rejoint la Direction Financière du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts fin 2007 au sein du département immobilier compte propre et a pris la direction générale deCDC Investissement Immobilier (anciennement CDC GPI) en juillet 2014.
Partner, Separate AccountsBauMont Real Estate Capital
France
Mr. Vellay is responsible for BauMont’s separate account activity and business development in Southern Europe. He is based in Paris. Prior to joining BauMont, Mr. Vellay was Head of Europe Investments at M&G Real Estate and Head of European acquisitions at MGPA. Before that he was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley focusing on real estate credit investments. He started his career at GE Real Estate.
Rémi has 24 years of experience in the real estate industry and leads the Firm’s activities in France. Prior to joining Benson Elliot in 2006, Rémi was an Investment Manager at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was responsible for four real estate portfolios in France and Italy. Previously, Rémi spent six years at Archon Group (a Goldman Sachs Group company), latterly as Portfolio Manager where he managed five portfolios valued at €1.8bn. Rémi holds a Masters in Finance & Real Estate from Paris University XII and a Bachelor’s in Law & Tax from the Sorbonne University. Rémi is a native French speaker and is fluent in Italian.
Managing Director, Co-Head Portfolio ManagerBarings Real Estate Advisers
France
Séverine is portfolio manager at Barings after 5 years as Country-Head France at Barings as well. Previously, Séverine spent four years with Standard Life Investments as European Portfolio Manager responsible for transactions and asset management and led the fund management for a separate account, as well as a National Director at LaSalle Investment Management for nine years. Before this, she was a financial analyst for Hammerson plc in France. Séverine has a total of 25 years’ experience in the RE industry and is a member of the Cercle des Femmes de L’Immobilier.
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Adrien joined Aviva Investors Real Estate in January 2019 as Head of Asset Management for Continental Europe and managing director for AIREF SA. He is responsible for developing Aviva Investors’ Asset Management platform across continental Europe, leading teams in Paris and Frankfurt. Adrien has 15 years’ experience in a variety of roles within the real estate sector, including in asset management, transactions, fund management and M&A. He joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, where he held the position of Head of Investments France since March 2018. Previously, Adrien worked at Standard Life Investments, AXA Real Estate France, General Electric Real Estate, Société Générale and PwC.
P3 is a long-term investor, manager and developer of European warehouse properties in Europe, 100% owned by GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Singapore.
Alexandra Vaquin
Head of AcquisitionsSTAM Europe
France
Alexandra Vaquin is Stam Europe's Head of Acquisitions. Prior to joining Stam Europe, Vaquin was a director at SG Real Estate Advisory (Société Générale Group), where she advised the group's clients (Société Générale Assurance, family office, private clients and corporates) in their real estate investment strategy (origination and execution) and asset management (sales, forward purchases/development contracts monitoring). Previously, she worked for more than 10 years for a pan-European real estate investment fund, Revcap, in London. As an associate partner, she was responsible for value-added real estate transactions through co-investments with local operating partners. She also worked in real estate debt management in London (LNR Partners)
Arnaud Fety
Head of Institutional InvestmentAegide-Domitys
France
My current position: European Director institutional Investment for AEGIDE-DOMITYS the European Leader for Seniors Living (non medicalized) 140 Résidences open Sept 2021
In charge of the sales to Intitutionnal Investors. I'm Chartered Suveyors, FRICS.
Entrepreneur and Senior executive with strong business development capacities, experiences in Team Management, in Investment process and solid track record in Real Estate Transactional experience across both France and Continental Europe.
Very strong personal and professional ethics (RICS)
Experiences:
I used to work for a German Company IVG Asset Management Immobilien AG , as Managing Director, Head of the French Branch.
Residential - Student Housing - Senior Housing
N ° 1 in its sector, the AEGIDE DOMITYS Group designs and builds service residences unique in France, placing freedom and quality of reception at the heart of its raison d'être . The control of the entire life cycle of a residence, from its design to its operation, combined with a secure development plan without equivalent on the market, make the Group the benchmark operator in the field of residences senior services.
Cédric Borel
DirectorInstitut Français pour la Performance du Bâtiment (IFPEB)
