UK-based asset manager M&G Real Estate, part of M&G’s €85.6 bn private assets and alternatives division, has boosted its German team with four key appointments at the Frankfurt office.
With over 15 years’ industry experience, Robert Scheer joins from ING Bank in Germany, where he was a director in the acquisition finance team. As director for corporate direct lending, he will lead direct lending efforts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Scheer will be supported by Hao Wang, the new associate director of corporate direct lending with six years of industry experience and joining from Bank of Ireland Group’s acquisition finance team in Germany.
Both Scheer and Wang will report to team head James Pearce.
Also joining M&G Real Estate is Martin Kübler in the newly created role of director of Institutional Business Development for Germany.
He has been working in financial services for 18 years including at both NIBC Bank and WestLB AG in Germany.
Reporting to Werner Kolitsch, Kübler will work alongside the head of Institutional Business Development, Ingo Matthey, further developing and expanding client relationships with insurance companies, pension funds and institutional investors.
Lastly, Victoria van Blanken joins M&G’s Private & Alternative Asset division as associate director, focusing on the asset management of German real estate assets.
With nine years’ experience in the sector, she joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate.
Werner Kolitsch, head of Germany and Austria at M&G Investments, said that the new appointments ‘will contribute to further growing our footprint for origination in Germany, allowing us to serve our local and European partners in the Direct Lending and wider institutional business with increased knowledge and expertise.’
James Pearce, head of direct lending, M&G, added: ‘We see growing opportunities in our core focus area which has always been more conservative senior, secured lending with lower leverage, and by expanding our origination team to Frankfurt, we will be better able to serve companies and financial sponsors in mainland Europe.’
