Barings Real Estate Advisers has strengthened its platform in Germany with the appointment of Nikolas von Kleist as transactions manager in its Frankfurt office and Ibrahim Awan as a senior analyst in its Munich office.

ibrahim awan

Ibrahim Awan

Von Kleist brings more than eight years’ experience in the real estate sector, most recently at Curzon Advisers where he had worked as part of the Asset Management team since 2015. Prior to this he gained experience in the Sales and Transaction Management team at GE Capital Real Estate and before that was at Cushman & Wakefield in Frankfurt.
 
Ibrahim Awan has recently completed an MSc in Real Estate Finance at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to this he worked as an asset manager for JLL in Germany.
 
Both Von Kleist and Awan will work within the Transactions team which supports the underwriting and due diligence of new investments, as well as the development and maintenance of financial models to underwrite new deals and monitor ongoing investment performance. In addition to this, they will be responsible for assisting with the sourcing of new deals.