Valor Real Estate Partners has appointed Brookfield’s Matt Ganas as senior vice president.
Ganas will be based in London and will have an initial focus on investment activity in the Netherlands and Italy.
At Brookfield he was head of transactions, with responsibility for pan-European logistics and prior to this, he spent three years at Logicor as director of transactions, overseeing the Netherlands and southern Europe markets.
Cane Napolitano, head of investment at Valor, said: “The expansion into the Dutch and Italian markets is a natural evolution given that the structural drivers underpinning the growth of the last mile logistics sector look highly attractive. With a track record of being first movers into supply constrained and highly fragmented markets, there is an opportunity to replicate our success to date, leveraging Matt’s deep local market knowledge in more nascent markets including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Milan and Rome.”
Ganas added: “With the continued momentum in e-commerce and reconfiguration of global supply chains, Valor’s unique, research-based approach to sourcing, acquiring and asset managing in-fill logistics assets is well-suited to capitalise on opportunities across select major European cities, where rent and capital growth prospects look very favourable on a relative basis.”
