German regional bank Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen has appointed Roland Fuchs to become the new Head of Real Estate Finance France. Fuchs, who has been active in pan-European real estate lending for 15 years, formerly built up the origination activities in continental Europe, including the origination office in Paris for Westdeutsche Immobilienbank. In addition, he was global head of Credit Analysis for the entire international business of the bank.

German regional bank Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen has appointed Roland Fuchs to become the new Head of Real Estate Finance France. Fuchs, who has been active in pan-European real estate lending for 15 years, formerly built up the origination activities in continental Europe, including the origination office in Paris for Westdeutsche Immobilienbank. In addition, he was global head of Credit Analysis for the entire international business of the bank.

The appointment of Roland Fuchs, who will be located in Paris, follows Helaba's decision to increase its business activities in France related to real estate finance. Helaba has successfully entered the French real estate lending market from its head office in Frankfurt over the past years. Now the bank will build up a team of professionals in order to better serve French real estate customers such as fund initiators, developers and SIIC's.