Personal markets funding agency Companions Group has made three senior appointments to its actual property enterprise.

Karim Habra has been named world co-head of actual property primarily based in Zug, Switzerland, Stephen McCall is world head of platforms and opcos primarily based in London and Henrik Orrbeck has been appointed as co-head of actual property Europe primarily based in London.

McCall will begin in February, whereas Habra and Orrbeck will each be a part of the agency in March.

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Habra will work alongside Mike Bryant, who’s a accomplice and the agency’s present head of actual property. Habra has over 25 years of trade expertise and joins from Ivanhoe Cambridge, the actual property funding arm of Canadian pension fund CDPQ, the place he was head of Europe and Asia-Pacific and world head of strategic partnerships.

McCall has greater than 25 years of operational management expertise and shall be answerable for overseeing the agency’s technique for investing in actual property administration groups and working corporations.

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He was beforehand chief govt at edyn Group, a global hybrid hospitality platform owned by Brookfield Asset Administration. Previous to that, he spent practically 17 years at IHG.

Orrbeck will work alongside AJ Jager, who’s a managing director inside the group. Orrbeck has over 20 years of trade expertise and joins from EQT the place he was a accomplice and founding member of the agency’s actual property enterprise.

Throughout his time at EQT, he raised two funds and constructed a European group which invested in direct property, working companions, and public corporations.

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Companions Group mentioned that the brand new appointments replicate its dedication to additional scaling its actual property enterprise, which presently has $17bn (£13.3bn) in property beneath administration.

“Personal markets are set to play a essential function in remodeling actual property property to satisfy highly effective thematic development traits, comparable to decarbonization, altering shopper preferences, and digitization,” mentioned Juri Jenkner, president, co-head of investments at Companions Group.

“We now have a transparent strategic imaginative and prescient for a way we need to develop our actual property enterprise. The intensive mixed expertise of Karim, Henrik, and Stephen shall be extraordinarily useful as we scale and navigate by means of disruption throughout occupier markets.”