Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
ANREV Training
This training course was successfully held on 2 October 2024 in Singapore. Industry experts explored key strategies, legal considerations, and valuation techniques related to Private Real Estate Debt in the APAC region.
This training was hosted by CapitaLand.
Details
1:30 - 5:00 PM
Capital Tower, Level 29 (Taishan & Huashan Rooms), 168 Robinson Road, Singapore 068912
- Strategies for Private Real Estate Debt in APAC
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Navigating Legal Aspects of Real Estate Credit Funds in APAC
- Real Estate Valuations for Debt Strategies in APAC
For the last-minute registration, please email [email protected]
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Debt training slidesPDFDownload
Speakers
Amélie Delaunay is the Senior Director of Research and Professional Standards for ANREV, the Asian association for investors in non-listed real estate vehicles where she leads a team of six, responsible for the development and implementation of ANREV’s Research, Market information and Professional Standards programmes in Asia Pacific, including ANREV indices, global surveys and promotion of best practices for the industry. Amélie has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry and a strong real estate consulting background initially with Ernst & Young. She has been based in Asia since 2006. Educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she was awarded a post graduate degree in Urban Geography, Town Planning and Real Estate, Amélie also has an Advanced Master's Degree in Urban and Real Estate Management from ESSEC Business School in Paris. Amélie is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Arjun Pandit is responsible for managing all aspects of the real estate private debt funds business at CapitaLand Investment. As one of the most experienced commercial real estate professionals in Asia Pacific, Arjun has a consistent track record of over 24 years in establishing, running and managing businesses related to commercial mortgage and asset-backed lending, hard assets investing, real estate operating platforms and distressed debt investment platforms across the breadth of asset classes over business cycles. Over this period, Arjun has participated in over US$20bn of real estate-related transactions, including some of the largest commercial real estate financings in the region. He has done transactions of over A$8bn in Australia, including over A$4bn of commercial real estate mortgages and A$4bn of asset-backed loans with a track record of zero defaults.
Prior to CapitaLand, Arjun was the head of the Asia Pacific asset finance group at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for managing the lending platform across the region with a primary focus on Australia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and India. Under his leadership, the bank commenced, for the first time post global financial crises, non-recourse real estate lending activities in Asia Pacific. Prior to Credit Suisse, Arjun was the Asia Pacific head of global mortgages and securitized products at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was in charge of managing commercial and residential mortgage platforms in Japan, Korea and Australia, and also led some of the largest buyout related financing transactions in the region. Prior to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Arjun was one of the key members of Morgan Stanley’s Asia Pacific commercial real estate mezzanine lending team, where he was involved in some of the largest financing transactions in Japan and Australia. He started his real estate career in Asia Pacific, post Asian financial crisis, at Lehman Brothers’ principal transaction team based in Japan and was one of the early members of a business platform that went on to establish itself as one of the leading distressed debt and real estate investment platforms in the region.
Arjun received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Delhi in India and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales in Australia.
Rohan Ghosh is responsible for the overall development of the credit platform within CapitaLand Investment (CLI) alongside originating and executing transactions in the APAC region. He has over 15 years of experience in real estate and real assets credit across key geographic sectors including UK, Europe, India and the Middle East. Prior to joining CLI, Rohan spent three years at Brookfield Asset Management where he led Brookfield’s capital markets function for India and the Middle East region, including transacting over US$5bn in debt and equity capital markets transactions. He led the formation of the first REIT for Brookfield in India, alongside executing some of the largest debt recapitalizations in the country. Rohan also worked on two large and significant recapitalizations amounting to US$1bn in the UAE including refinancing construction debt in volatile markets during the pandemic. Prior to Brookfield, Rohan spent 13 years in London covering real estate and real assets credit across the UK, Western and Southern Europe. Most recently, he was a portfolio manager for Cheyne Capital, a US$6bn alternative real estate debt fund, where he ran the structured credit and mezzanine debt funding solutions. Rohan started his career with the European Real Estate Finance and Securitisation team at Credit Suisse focusing on structuring and executing Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Rohan obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Franklin and Marshal College Pennsylvania and Master’s in Finance degree from The London Business School
Greg Barclay is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Investment Funds group, specializing in complex fund formation and capital structuring transactions. He also chairs the Singapore office and serves on the firm's Partnership Committee. Greg’s practice focuses on the structuring of international private investment funds, including real estate, credit, infrastructure, private equity, venture capital and hybrid funds, and related carried interest and management-focused corporate arrangements. He also advises on investor relations, fund operations, joint ventures, and secondaries transactions. Greg is recognized as a leading lawyer for Investment Funds by Chambers Asia Pacific 2024 and highly regarded in IFLR1000 2023.
Matt Nortcliff is a real estate funds lawyer and a partner at Goodwin, a global law firm that has over 200 funds lawyers globally and which includes more than two thirds of the PERE Top 100 amongst its global client base.
Matt has been based in Singapore since 2010 and advises a broad range of asset managers on the establishment, closing and operation of real estate, credit and PE funds, structured investments and joint ventures. He also advises investors on their fund investments and real estate transactions across Asia and globally. Matt has been recognized as a leading lawyer for Investment Funds in both the Legal 500 and Chambers Asia Pacific directories since 2020 and his clients include institutional GPs and LPs, boutique fund managers and major global and regional property companies.
Stephen heads JLL’s Southeast Asia and India Value and Risk Advisory businesses, and heads client engagement for international institutional valuation work across Asia Pacific. Stephen currently chairs JLL’s Regional Valuation Governance Board and sits on the Global Valuation Risk Committee. He has been in the real estate industry since 1999 and is a Fellow of the RICS. Prior to working for JLL Stephen had stints with KPMG Singapore and RICS.