Federated Hermes has strengthened its real estate debt team hiring Paul Robinson as director, origination and structuring.
Robinson previously headed up the underwriting teams at Trimont Real Estate Advisors and Hudson Advisors, and prior to that he held roles within the commercial real estate businesses of banks including Lloyds, Hypo Real Estate and Anglo Irish.
In this newly created role, Robinson will be responsible for driving the origination of lending opportunities and design of customised loan structuring to ensure income capture and to deliver stable and consistent income distributions to investors over the long-term.
He will be based in London and report to Vincent Nobel, head of asset based lending.
Nobel said: “We are at a favourable point in the economic cycles, with our clients actively seeking differentiated opportunities to access the strong, stable income streams generated by the real estate debt asset class. Our strengths in origination and prudent underwriting underpin our real estate debt investment strategy, enabling us to build a diversified, defensive portfolio at attractive risk adjusted return levels for our clients.
“We are pleased to welcome Paul whose relevant experience will help us to further identify attractive investment opportunities and maintain our asset-focussed and successful underwriting approach.”
Robinson added: “I look forward to working with Vincent and the team to source relative value opportunities, underpinned by a differentiated lending approach to maximise the counter-cyclical opportunities offered by the prevailing market conditions.”
