Real Assets
Real Estate
Our team, established in 2019, has delivered on many high-profile strategic investment hires and team build-outs with leading investment firms across buy-side organisations: institutional investors, SWFs, hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks. Our practice operates globally. We focus on solving for talent needs that are critical for the success and growth of our clients’ investment strategies. We regularly work against narrow role specs to fill defined coverage or skills gaps on a team; we also lead with comprehensive talent landscape analyses to identify growth avenues and then execute a subsequent search.
Our longstanding practice experience means the team has access to a fully developed network of often personal relationships across the senior investment communities in our coverage verticals, which gives us unparalleled market insights and access to top talent.
Aside from our search activities, and based on our in-depth market knowledge, we also provide bespoke commissioned research and business intelligence pieces, such as specialised market maps and competitor analyses.
Our expertise covers:
Value Add & Opportunistic Real Estate
Real Estate Debt
Non-Performing Loans
Asset Management
Case Studies
| 06.05.26 |
VP Hospitality Investing, Family Office ($4bn AUM)
We were mandated to build out the investment team for a newly formed real estate strategy focused on high-profile luxury hospitality assets globally. Our client had recently appointed a CIO with a background in special situations investing, having worked at several of the most prestigious US private equity and alternatives firms with exposure across real estate, real assets, and corporates. He was seeking two driven individuals with six to eight years of total experience and a strong track record in luxury hospitality investments. We developed a shortlist of qualified candidates from all the specialist hospitality investment firms in London and successfully delivered two VP-level hires to support the initial buildout of the strategy.
Case Studies
| 12.03.26 |
Real Estate
After a successful period of capital raising a UK based real estate debt fund engaged us to find an Originator for a large ticket UK debt mandate. We had previously worked with this client on a hire for an Asset Manager three years prior. Having been successful on the prior mandate the client reengaged us..
This was an interesting opportunity with a lot of dry powder for the successful candidate however, the business was looking to hire nine months into the typical bonus cycle. This could significantly lower the successful candidate’s earnings for the year. From our research we knew that historically this business hired predominantly from the Sell Side. However, they did not have the network to engage or asses the abilities of the current pool of sell side candidates. They required our knowledge of suitable candidates in this space. This is a typical mandate on the Real Estate desk and having successfully completed a mandate a few months prior for another client we were well placed to update them on current team structures and potential candidates for this role from both the sell and buy side.
Initially, the business did not think they could attract someone from the buy side considering the time of year and compensation structure. Through our network and market maps we were able to present the client with suitable buy and sell side candidates. We helped the Client hire an Originator from another debt fund who had executed on a very similar mandate. Acting between both parties we brokered a suitable deal for the candidate to move late in the bonus cycle. The candidate was able to move quickly and help the business deploy the capital.
Thought Leadership
| 30.01.20 |