CBRE’s Helsinki-based head of Nordic capital markets has left the company.
Sami Kiehela left the firm this month to pursue other opportunities. He told colleagues and clients that he has not yet made a decision on his next move.
Under Kiehela, CBRE’s team advised on some of the largest investment transactions in Finland, in the busy period before the Covid pandemic.
They included the €480 mln sale of the headquarters of Finland’s largest financial company, OP, to a South Korean-Finnish consortium including NH Investment and Varma pension fund, and YIT Construction’s €300 mln sale of part of Finland’s largest urban development project, at Tripla station in Helsinki, which Commerz Real acquired.
He was promoted to head of Nordic capital markets in 2020.
Kiehela was also involved in building up a CBRE debt advisory business in the Nordic region. At the start of 2021, Jorgen Arnesen joined to develop real estate investment banking there.
Patrik Kallenvret, MD of Sweden at CBRE is now interim head of capital markets for the Nordics. Henrik Calton is heading up capital markets in Finland.
