Follow The Money: London 2018 Forecast

James Seppala is the Head of Real Estate Europe, based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Seppala has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments across Europe, including Logicor, OfficeFirst, and Mileway. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Seppala was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he spent 10 years focused on equity and debt investment opportunities in Europe and the United States on behalf of Goldman Sachs’s real estate private equity group. Mr. Seppala graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2001. Mr. Seppala currently serves as Chairman of BEPIF. He also serves on the Imperial College Endowment Board and chairs the European Advisory Board of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School.

Rasheed Hassan is Head of Savills Cross Border Investment. His focus is on providing clients with a broader service offering across their portfolios and their chosen investment markets. His role also encompasses Cross Border capital groups, in particular from Asia and Middle East.

Ms. Aznar is the Head of Debt Investments & Special Situations team at LaSalle Investment Management and Chief Investment Officer of LaSalle’s market leading European debt platform. She is responsible for LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies II & III (£1.5bn in committed capital), LaSalle Residential Finance I - III (£1.3 bn in committed capital), LaSalle Whole Loan Strategies (€600m committed capital) and LaSalle UK Special Situations Fund and is on LaSalle’s European and UK Management Boards and chairs LaSalle's European Diversity Board. Amy re-joined LaSalle in 2008 and has spent more than 16 years at LaSalle/JLL. Ms. Aznar has a 20+ year track record of working in real estate principal investment, advisory and investment banking. Ms. Aznar has raised over €4.5bn of capital commitments across the debt and special situations platform and completed over €3.2bn of debt and structured equity investments in 74 transactions since 2010. Her real estate debt investments include over €1.2bn in mezzanine loans and €2.0bn in whole loans, including c. €1.0bn in development lending. Prior to joining LaSalle, Ms. Aznar was a Managing Director of Global Principal Investments at Merrill Lynch in London, where she was responsible for transactions across Europe, including the acquisition of a €13bn portfolio of non-performing loans and a loan servicing company from Banca Intesa in Italy and the acquisition of a €1.4bn non-performing loan portfolio from Dresdner Bank in Germany. Ms. Aznar has an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BSE in Engineering from Princeton University

Tom Lloyd is Partner in the Firm’s London office, where he is a member of the Firm's Banking and Credit and Real Estate practices. Tom advises clients on an array of credit transactions and financial instruments, as well as cross-border finance issues, with a focus on sponsor driven real estate investments. Some of Tom’s clients include Blackstone, KKR, Roundhill, Biomed and Northwood Investors. Tom’s recent transactions include: Blackstone’s creation of Logicor, its European logistics platform, comprising more than 30 financings, across 18 jurisdictions, with an aggregate TEV of more than €10 billion Blackstone’s financing of acquisition of a €6.5 billion Spanish residential mortgage portfolio Blackstone’s financing of the European real estate assets purchased as part of its $23 billion acquisition of real estate assets from GE Capital Multiple financings and loan assumptions in respect of Blackstone’s €2.7 billion acquisition of a Nordic multi-use property portfolio from funds managed by Obligo Investment Management AS €500 million refinancing of Blackstone and Roundhill Czech residential portfolio Financing of KKR’s first European real estate investment, comprising multiple UK retail parks Financing of Blackstone’s development of a new shopping centre in Gdansk, Poland, part of Multi, its European retail platform Financing of Blackstone’s 2011 acquisition of the Chiswick Park office park, London, including subsequent refinancings Financing of the development of Biomed’s new biomedical centres in Cambridge, United Kingdom Tom Lloyd received a Diploma in Legal Practice, with Distinction, in 2005 from Nottingham Law School and his LL.B. degree from the University of Sheffield in 2004. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales as of 2008.

Ms. Trish Geery Barrigan is a Senior Partner at Benson Elliot Capital Management since 10 July, 2006. Ms. Barrigan co-founded Benson Elliot and currently co-heads all investment and asset management activity. She has a global perspective to Benson Elliot Capital Management. Prior to Benson Elliot, Ms. Barrigan spent two years at Dubai Investment Group as a Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Real Estate Investments. In this role, she had responsibility for defining and implementing Dubai Investment Group's global real estate strategy. Ms. Barrigan established a European presence for them through the launch of a London office as well as actively sourcing, structuring and negotiating investments, and establishing operating partner relationships in Europe and the United States. She spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs primarily in real estate principal investing and portfolio management for the Whitehall Funds; latterly as the Head of Acquisitions and Portfolio Management for the GS Core. Ms. Barrigan began her career in the real estate department of the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs in 1994. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute and a Founder of Women in Real Estate (London). She has 20 years of industry experience and has worked in Europe, the United States and the Middle East during her real estate career. Ms. Barrigan has transacted in multiple countries in Europe and is a fluent French speaker. Ms. Barrigan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Boston College.

Mr. Orf is a partner and is head of Apollo’s real estate business in Europe. Mr. Orf oversees all property investments and fund raising activities on behalf of Apollo’s real estate funds throughout Europe. Prior to joining Apollo in 2010, Mr. Orf spent the majority of his career investing in the European real estate markets on behalf of Citigroup, Lone Star, for his own account and at Goldman Sachs. In his last four years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Orf headed the European Real Estate Department and was a member of the European Investment Banking Operating Committee. Mr. Orf is a Founder of E- Shelter GmbH, a German based data centre business. He is a member of the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business Global Advisory Board and the Visiting Committee for the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Orf holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University.

Lesley Males is the Head of Research at Datscha UK, a Swedish proptech company. Lesley joined Datscha in 2017 and is responsible for reporting on trends and insights in the commercial UK property market, particularly within the commercial investment sector. She has over 15 years’ experience working in the property sector. Before joining Datscha, she was the Associate Director for UK Retail Research at CBRE. Prior to this she worked for Tesco within the Site Research department in the Property division managing competitor insight and strategy.

Mr. Howard Meaney serves as Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Real Estate - UK at UBS Global Asset Management (UK) Limited. Mr. Meaney served as the Head of Property Investments at Liverpool Victoria Asset Management Limited and served as its Portfolio Manager since September 2007. He served as Head of Property Investments. He joined Liverpool Victoria in September 2007 and was responsible for coordinating the activities across the various portfolios under management, sourcing new investment opportunities, managing funds, and devising investment strategies. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Cushman & Wakefield. Prior to that, Mr. Meaney was employed at Legal & General Investment Management He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Mr. Meaney holds a Polytechnic Diploma in Estate Management and Valuation from Bristol Polytechnic.

Faisal’s expertise lies in researching and analysing real estate markets, with a focus on the UK and the Middle East. His work focuses on all sectors, examining broader economic drivers that underpin global real estate activity. He oversees Cluttons’ global research programme and works closely with teams across Cluttons’ network to deliver thought leadership research, most recently focussing on cross border capital flows, migration trends and affordability challenges.