Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area
Independent investment professional with over 20 years of experience across real estate, special situations, and complex cross-border transactions. My background combines top-tier M&A and restructuring training with principal investing roles at leading global platforms, including Rothschild, Morgan Stanley Special Situations, Oaktree Capital Management, and Lone Star Funds. I have worked across the capital stack — equity, structured finance, performing and non-performing debt — with a strong focus on real estate and asset-backed situations. My experience spans direct asset acquisitions, loan portfolios, operating companies, and distressed or transitional situations, from initial origination through structuring, execution, and exit. Geographically, I have led and supported transactions across Germany, Western and Central/Eastern Europe, and selectively the United States, often involving first-time market entry, complex stakeholder environments, or dislocated sellers. Today, I operate independently, working with developers, investors, and intermediaries on capital sourcing and transaction structuring for real estate and asset-backed opportunities. Current mandates include cross-border capital raising for residential and mixed-use developments, as well as advisory on special situations involving debt, transitional assets, and complex ownership or financing structures. I typically engage where situations require judgment, structuring experience, and an investor’s mindset rather than a purely advisory or execution-only approach.
Independent investment professional working with developers, investors, and intermediaries on capital sourcing and transaction structuring for real estate and asset-backed opportunities. Activities include cross-border capital raising, investor engagement, and structuring support across residential, mixed-use, and hospitality developments, as well as special situations involving transitional assets, complex ownership structures, or stressed capital positions. Current mandates include sourcing European capital for U.S. residential developments, alongside selective work on European asset-backed and special situation transactions.
Director role focused on originating opportunistic and value-add direct real estate investment opportunities in Germany. Responsible for sourcing, initial underwriting, due diligence coordination, and investment committee preparation for transactions with typical equity tickets of €10m–€100m. Worked closely with internal stakeholders and external advisors across commercial, financial, and technical workstreams, responsible for transaction structuring and execution processes from screening through closing.
Independent project-based work across real estate and special situations, including portfolio-level review of complex or underperforming investments and development of restructuring or value-preservation strategies. Engagements involved analysis of asset-backed situations, identification of real estate–driven solutions, and structuring of potential transaction or restructuring pathways, working with investment managers and external advisors.
Senior Vice President responsible for origination and execution of opportunistic real estate and asset-backed investments across Germany and Central / Eastern Europe. Focused on sourcing, assessing, structuring, and executing complex transactions involving direct real estate assets, loan portfolios (including non-performing loans), and real estate operating companies, often in situations involving forced sellers, dislocated capital structures, or limited market liquidity. Led and contributed to the deployment of approximately €1.2bn of equity across more than ten transactions, with individual equity commitments typically exceeding €100m. Key transactions included the acquisition of loans secured by major retail assets such as Mammut and Arena Plaza shopping centres in Hungary, the acquisition of Riga Plaza shopping centre in Latvia, and participation in the acquisition of a €2bn+ European commercial real estate loan portfolio from Commerzbank. Played a central role in establishing Lone Star’s origination footprint in new markets, including Hungary, the Baltics, Greece, and Turkey, building relationships with local banks, advisors, brokers, and operating partners. Responsibilities covered end-to-end transaction execution, including investment underwriting, complex financing negotiations, coordination of internal asset management teams and external advisors, and active involvement through exit.
Vice President in Oaktree’s European Principal Opportunities platform, focusing on control-oriented private equity and loan-to-own investments across distressed and complex situations. Worked on a range of European special situations involving stressed capital structures, operational underperformance, or dislocated ownership, including healthcare services, leisure assets, industrial businesses, and residential development platforms. Covered the Polish real estate investment platform Griffin, overseeing assessment and execution of opportunistic real estate transactions and add-on investments. Responsibilities included investment analysis, financial and operational due diligence, modelling oversight, transaction structuring, and preparation of investment committee materials, working closely with senior partners, local management teams, and external advisors.