is the world economy at risk? - Global Real Estate Institute

CHRISTIAN DAUBENSPECK
senior manager
ERNST & YOUNG AG
ADVISOR
the real estate group provides:
transaction support •
m&a and capital markets services •
audit and tax services
Christian is Senior Manager in Ernst & Young’s Transaction
Advisory practise specialising in providing IPO, financial
due diligence andtransaction support services to clients,
particularly in the real estate sector. Recent assignments
include listings of Real Estate Companies at the London and
Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Buy Side Advisory for various
bidders for German residential housing and commercial
property companies.
MARIANNE DE BATTISTI
directrice de la communication
ICADE
full-service property company
• develops • invests
• provides services in: housing•
commercial property • PPPs
Marianne de Battisti graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et ChaussÃes. Operational
experiences: Managing Director in Lyon, Agency Director in Grenoble
and Rouen, Manager of several mixed publicâ‘rivate real estate
companies, General Manager of Icade CitÃs. Since 2004 Director of
Communications, President of Icade Pierre Pour Tous. In 2005, she
became Director of the International Department.
Icade provides services to key international accounts, investors or
users in several European countries. During 2006, Icade acquired a
property portfolio from DaimlerChrysler, a combination of office
buildings and property reserves.
GUNTHER R DEUTSCH
managing director
METIS ASSET MANAGEMENT
Gunther Deutsch is founder and Managing Director of Metis
Asset Management GmbH, a company specialised in asset
value improvement, based in Munich. He has more than
16 years of international real estate experience in leasing,
investment and development, working for companies like
Jones Lang Lasalle and Deutsche Bank in Germany, the
USA and Asia. Since 2005 Deutsch runs his own asset
management business and oversees the asset management
and sales of real estate owned by investors like RREEF
Europe/DB Real Estate and Citigroup Property Investors.
PETER DAVIES
fund director
ARLINGTON SECURITIES PLC
Peter is now the Fund Director of the Arlington European
Logistics Fund which was recently launched in December 2006
with a total equity commitment of Euro 625m. It is anticipated
that this fund will grow in the short term to in excess of Euro
1bn and ultimately in excess of Euro 3bn. Prior to joining
Arlington in 2005, Peter was the Managing Director of ING
Real Estate Investment Management Central Europe, based
in Prague. He was responsible for launching the ING Property
Fund Central Europe and all property investment activities in
the Central European region. Peter has been working in the
property industry for over 18 years.
TOMAS DE VARGAS MACHUCA
vice president
CREDIT SUISSE
LENDER
residential • hotels • office • retail •
other • germany • central europe CEE •
euro 30m-euro 1b
Tomas is a Vice President at Credit Suisse’s European Real
Estate Finance and Securitisation team (“EREFS”) providing
Mortgage Lending across Europe and in particular in Germany
and Central Europe. Tomas has been at Credit Suisse since
2001 and has been involved in real estate transactions
amounting to more than Euro 10bn in debt being provided to
Real Estate Investors across CEE. Tomas holds a degree in
Economics from Bocconi University and is fluent in English,
French and Italia.
NICOLAUS DIEDRICH
head of asset origination germany
DEUTSCHE BANK
Nicolaus Diedrich is director for asset origination for all assetbased
principal and financing transaction at Global Markets,
Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt. His focus is real estate.
Nicolaus has more than 20 years of business experience
in capital markets, fixed income and derivatives. He was
responsible for trading, sales and origination departments of
several German and International banks.