Paris-based Beverley Kilbride is taking on a new role as head of transactions and asset management in Europe for LaSalle Investment Management, PropertyEU can reveal.
Kilbride will head up a pan-European team responsible for managing the full lifecycle of assets, including acquisitions, leasing and sales, across all of LaSalle’s European funds and products. She is currently country manager for France, a role she has held since 2018, and has been with LaSalle for over 15 years.
The news comes in a sit down with LaSalle’s new Europe CEO, Philip La Pierre, who is the subject of PropertyEU’s Big Interview for the April/May combined edition.
While individual team members will continue to focus on specific services and local markets, LaSalle expects that operating as ‘one unified team’ will enable it to ‘better share best practice across the region and deliver best-in-class services for its clients’.
Separately, in April, LaSalle announced that Michael Zerda would be rejoining the firm in Q4 2021 as head of debt and special situations to oversee its existing multi-strategy debt business and spearhead the growth of its higher-return special situations and value-add equity strategies. Zerda was most recently head of Europe for Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies.
Amy Klein Aznar will transition to the role of executive chair of LaSalle’s debt and special situations platform when Zerda joins. LsSalle said she will remain closely involved in investment strategy, decision-making and client relationships while reducing her day-to-day responsibilities, enabling her to devote more time to her family’s business interests.
Zerda and Klein Aznar previously worked together from 2009 to 2016 while building the debt and special situations platform at LaSalle.
The company currently has around $22 bn (€18.2 bn) of AUM in the UK and Europe.
The full interview with La Pierre is available to subscribers here.
