Independent pan-European private equity real estate platform DFI has appointed Dipayan Chakraborty as managing director and head of capital markets.
Chakraborty, who has more than 15 years of experience in real estate investment banking and capital markets across the UK, Europe and India, most recently spent four years at JP Morgan as an executive director in its EMEA real estate investment banking team where he was responsible for origination and execution of M&A and capital raising mandates across all asset classes in the UK and Europe.
In his new role, Chakraborty will be responsible for driving product development alongside partners and investment teams, leading on the capital formation strategy of the business and executing on DFI’s strategic corporate growth initiatives.
Frank RoccoGrande, founding partner at DFI, said: “We have strong ambitions to continue to grow DFI and the creation of this new role is a natural evolution of our firm. Adding Dipayan to lead this team will help us deepen our capital formation expertise to enable us to continue to provide access to high conviction thematic platform investments and special situations for our client partners.
“We have worked closely with Dipayan in the past, and are confident that the experience, technical ability and deep industry relationships he brings will be invaluable as we expand our business and pursue excellent outcomes for our clients.”
Chakraborty added: “DFI has established itself as one of the leading firms for conceptualising and delivering value-add and opportunistic investment strategies to create scalable platforms supported by fundamentals and unlock special situations from market dislocation. I look forward to working with Frank, Gavin, Paul and the rest of the team to drive new long-term risk-adjusted opportunities in the current real estate cycle on behalf of our investors.”
