Valor appoints former Brookfield executive
Last mile specialist Valor Real Estate Partners has appointed Brookfield head of transactions Matt Ganas as senior vice president, tasked with speeding up the firm’s expansion in Europe.
Ganas will be based in London. In his new role, he will seek to extend Valor’s investment activity outside of the UK, France and Germany, with an initial focus on the Netherlands and Italy.
As head of transactions at Brookfield, Ganas was responsible for pan-European logistics activity. Prior to this, he spent three years at Logicor as director of transactions, overseeing the Netherlands and Southern Europe markets.
Last mile specialist Valor Real Estate Partners has appointed Brookfield head of transactions Matt Ganas as senior vice president, tasked with speeding up the firm’s expansion in Europe.
Ganas will be based in London. In his new role, he will seek to extend Valor’s investment activity outside of the UK, France and Germany, with an initial focus on the Netherlands and Italy.
As head of transactions at Brookfield, Ganas was responsible for pan-European logistics activity. Prior to this, he spent three years at Logicor as director of transactions, overseeing the Netherlands and Southern Europe markets.
Ganas has more than 10 years of real estate investment experience, having transacted on some €4bn (£3.4bn) of primarily logistics assets.
Cane Napolitano, head of investment at Valor, said: “The expansion into the Dutch and Italian markets is a natural evolution, given that the structural drivers underpinning the growth of the last mile logistics sector look highly attractive.
“With a track record of being first movers into supply-constrained and highly fragmented markets, there is an opportunity to replicate our success to date, leveraging Matt’s deep local market knowledge in more nascent markets including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Milan and Rome.”
Ganas said: “With the continued momentum in e-commerce and reconfiguration of global supply chains, Valor’s unique, research-based approach to sourcing, acquiring and asset managing infill logistics assets is well suited to capitalise on opportunities across select major European cities, where rent and capital growth prospects look very favourable on a relative basis.”
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