BNPPRE adds senior banker to investment management team

Lucie Bordelais Charneau has joined BNP Paribas Real Estate in the investment management business line reporting to David Aubin.

She will be in charge of developing and coordinating international operations for future global clients and more specifically to raise funds in Asia and the Middle East.

Bordelais Charneau’s assignment is structured around consulting and asset sourcing. She will also analyse the needs and expectations of investors in these countries to negotiate separate account contracts and to advise institutional and professional key clients in the real estate sector (sovereign funds, insurance companies and pension funds, etc.) to enable them to invest in real estate in Europe and award asset management to BNP Paribas Real Estate investment management estates.

Charneau started her career in 1991 at Arthur Andersen where she conducted banking audit assignments before moving to Deutsche Bank in Paris in 1995 as Business Area Controller assisting heads of Corporate and Investment banking and structured finance divisions.

Her real estate career began in 1998 at Archon Group France (Asset Manager for Goldman Sachs funds) as senior portfolio manager with the task of optimising the profitability of managed portfolios and with responsibility for relations with investors and lenders. In 2001, she began to make a major contribution to the launch of the German platform, AGD (Archon Group Deutschland).

In 2004, she joined the real estate acquisition team at General Electric Real Estate based in Paris before moving at the end of 2005 to Société Générale as Director of structured real estate financing in SGCIB Real Estate and Lodging (SGCIB-REL) in Paris and London where she completed about EUR 1 bn of structured credit lines.