迈克尔Zerda

迈克尔Zerda re-joined LaSalle in October 2021 as Head of European Debt 和 Value-Add Strategies, responsible for LaSalle’s higher octane equity strategies 和 market leading debt platform in Europe. He was previously with LaSalle from 2009 to 2015.

Michael has 22 years’ experience investing in equity 和 debt opportunities in Europe 和 the US, across a wide variety of real estate asset classes. 自2010年以来, he has been responsible for transactions totaling over $10 billion in net equity contributions, 和 $22 billion in gross loan commitments, across 140 individual transactions in major Western European markets spanning private equity, 结构性股权澳门黄金城赌城, 合资企业, 优先级债务, 夹层债务, 公司债, 发展融资.

Michael was most recently Head of Europe for Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, where he oversaw the growth of one Europe’s most active non-bank lending platforms 和 led various notable initiatives, 包括提供1欧元.2 billion 整个贷款 for Henderson Park’s purchase of Green REIT, the first ever financing for a public to private real estate transaction in Europe by a non-bank lender, the establishment of a +€1 billion pan-European logistics lending program, 和 expansion into most Western European markets.

在加入黑石之前, Michael spent six years at LaSalle Investment Management overseeing the set-up 和 growth of its market leading debt 和 special situations platform. During his time at LaSalle, Mr Zerda was involved in raising €1.9 billion of capital commitments of which €1.7 billion was deployed during his tenure across 35 individual direct equity, 优先股, 整个贷款, 夹层澳门黄金城赌城.

在加入LaSalle之前, Michael was Vice President in Merrill Lynch’s Global Principal Investments division in 伦敦, where he focused on European equity investments, including the acquisition of a €13 billion portfolio of non-performing loans 和 a loan servicing company from Banca Intesa in Italy. Prior to that he worked at Archon Group, Goldman Sachs’ real estate 和 distressed loan management platform 和 Archon Capital, Goldman Sachs’ real estate mezzanine platform.

Michael received a BA in Finance from the Neely School of Business at Texas Christian University, where he graduated with honors.