LaSalle Investment Management announced that Andy Watson, an international director in the Paris office, has taken on a newly created role as head of Core Funds and Separate Accounts, Continental Europe.

LaSalle Investment Management announced that Andy Watson, an international director in the Paris office, has taken on a newly created role as head of Core Funds and Separate Accounts, Continental Europe.

LaSalle said the position, effective from 1 January, is a key pillar in the realignment of its European business.

Watson will have responsibility both for the company's existing core funds and separate accounts under management and for growing future business where he is liaising closely with the Global Client Services team in raising capital for new funds.

Watson has been a member of LaSalle's senior management team in Continental Europe since he joined in 2004. In the newly reorganised business he is a member of the European Management Board and reporting to Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, recently appointed managing director of Europe.