Injecting Capital into Portugal Real Estate - Can new LP/GP Partnerships innovate fundraising structures?

Paulo Loureiro is the Founder and CEO of Bondstone. He was formerly the Managing Partner of Louvre Capital, a real estate developer focused on high-end residential projects. Since 2016, Paulo has structured real estate projects representing an investment of more than €100 million in Portugal. Prior to founding Louvre Capital and Bondstone, Paulo was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in New York. He started his career with Schlumberger, spending six years in Argentina and Brazil holding various operational and management positions. Paulo received his MBA with honors from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and holds a Master of Science degree majoring in Maths and Physics.

Brian has worked for 25 years in the RE sector investing in 6 countries covering a wide range of products in Private Equity RE including CRE value add, turnarounds and residential, hotel and resort development in addition to alternative asset classes. Brian has a further specialty in debt and NPL acquisitions and workouts navigating insolvency processes to unlock value in distressed special situations. He spent 14 years in North America and Europe at a major PE fund with his final position as MD in Spain before opening the ASG Iberia office in Spain as the Managing Partner and setting up ASG Homes Propcorp as a Founding Partner currently developing multifamily residential projects in ten cities throughout Spain with 1,750 condominiums.

Mr. Bashir joined the firm in 2020 and is Chief Executive Officer of Europe. In this role Mr. Bashir leads the expansion of Harrison Street’s European strategies and he is also responsible for overseeing and growing the firm’s team of professionals across the U.K. and Europe. Mr. Bashir brings over 20 years of experience in private equity real estate, operations and corporate finance to Harrison Street. Prior to joining Harrison Street, Mr. Bashir was most recently President and Chief Operating Officer at Round Hill Capital, a real estate investment and asset management firm with a global footprint. While at Round Hill Capital, he managed a business with an $8+ billion portfolio as well as a team of 260 people across 15 offices.

Mr. Favieres is responsible for sourcing both new real estate investment opportunities in Spain as well as capital from Spanish institutions wishing to invest in Barings’s real estate debt and equity products in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining Barings in 2015, Mr. Favieres was Principal of the H.I.G. Capital European Real Estate Group, where he was responsible for overseeing European acquisitions, asset management and dispositions across multiple real estate asset classes. Preceding this, Mr. Favieres held various management positions in Bank of Scotland, Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank and Hypo Real Estate Bank. Mr. Favieres earned a BA degree in Economics from Universidad Complutense and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School.

Graduated in Hotel Management and Postgraduate in Business Management, he began his career as a Cost Controller in a Portuguese hotel group being later promoted to Director with responsibility over the group's hotel units in Lisbon. Later, he performed the same role in the Algarve in an internationally branded beach resort. Since 2015 has been working as an Investment Consultant in Commercial Real Estate, participating in several transactions in segments such as hotels, offices or logistics within Capital Markets and Development departments which in total achieved +150k sqm and +€ 200m.

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Urbania international. The firm’s main areas of expertise include residential development, alternative investments and real estate debt. Mr. Lopez has overall responsibility for all aspects of the business and is directly involved in the execution of all transactions – originating, underwriting, financing and asset managing properties. He is Chairman of Syllabus a first-class student living concept with over 3000 beds. Mr. Lopez oversees the real estate debt strategy, an alternative advisory lending firm focused on providing capital solutions for southern European developers with a specialized focused on the Iberian market across several assets class.

Alexandre is CEO of Estamo since 2018. He has a large experience in banking management and worked for Banco Espírito Santo, ABN AMRO Bank and Banif. Degree in Bank Management at Instituto Superior de Gestão Bancária and Post Degree in Luxury Products & Services Marketing at Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics.

André has accumulated extensive experience in the Construction and Real Estate sectors, since 2002, having led €1.8Bn of buy and sell-side transactions and managed assets of +500.000 sqm, across all segments and in different markets (Australia, Belgium, Japan, Portugal, UK, USA)

Main skills: Structuring/Execution, Strategic Asset Management, Licensing, Development

Prior to founding Bedrock Capital Partners, André was Head of International Real Estate Investment at Fidelidade. Previously worked at ECS Capital, Crimson and Savills / Aguirre Newman

MS Civil Engineering, IST Lisbon | Master in Real Estate Valuation and Management, ISEG Lisbon | Master in Finance, UCP Lisbon

20 years operational, management and consultancy experience in Europe and the U.S.A. dealing with real estate development, private equity investment, resort development, asset management and consultancy in national and multinational companies.

Brian has worked for 25 years in the RE sector investing in 6 countries covering a wide range of products in Private Equity RE including CRE value add, turnarounds and residential, hotel and resort development in addition to alternative asset classes. Brian has a further specialty in debt and NPL acquisitions and workouts navigating insolvency processes to unlock value in distressed special situations. He spent 14 years in North America and Europe at a major PE fund with his final position as MD in Spain before opening the ASG Iberia office in Spain as the Managing Partner and setting up ASG Homes Propcorp as a Founding Partner currently developing multifamily residential projects in ten cities throughout Spain with 1,750 condominiums.

Bruno Lobo is the co-founder and managing partner of S+A Capital, where he leads the strategic direction of the company, the sourcing and structuring of new deals and oversees its investment activities. Bruno Lobo started his career in New York as an associate with the global real estate group of Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM). He was then a founding director of AshmoreAvenida, based in New York focused on ground-up urban development projects in key markets of Latin America, majority own by the Ashmore Group plc (LSE: ASHM). He was then the Director of Real Estate for AECOM Capital, the investment and development arm of AECOM (NYSE: ACM). Bruno Lobo holds a PhD from Columbia University in NYC and an MArch from the T.U of Lisbon.