Experienced hires reinforce Brunswick Real Estate’s continued growth and market expansion

STOCKHOLM, 21 June 2016:
Brunswick Real Estate (‘BRE’), a market leading real estate adviser, lender and investor in the Nordics, has recruited three experienced investment professionals to their Stockholm office. The three new recruits join BRE’s 70+ strong team of real estate professionals and senior advisers across Stockholm, Malmö, Helsinki, Copenhagen and London, and reflect the consistent growth BRE has demonstrated as a market leading firm for nearly 25 years.

Andreas Hedlund will join BRE in August to head the fundraising team at Leimdörfer, the Group’s investment banking arm, and Harri Halonen, who joins in July, will join the fundraising team as a Director. Aksel Lundquist will join as a Director at Brunswick Real Estate Capital, BRE’s debt financing arm. Aksel Lundquist will join in August.

All three bring valuable experience from a broad range of financial services backgrounds. Reflecting the increasing trend of international investor interest in the Nordics, and BRE’s global network, all three bring international experience gained in the UK, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland:

• Mr Hedlund joins from leading global private equity group EQT, where he spent 12 years working in Stockholm and Frankfurt, most recently as Investor Relations Director. He also spent several years at Goldman Sachs in London, and brings with him valuable investing, lending and capital raising experience, gained in the Nordics, Germany and the UK.

• Mr Halonen joins from leading life insurer Swiss Life Asset Management in Zurich, where he worked as a Senior Investment Manager within Infrastructure Investments. He brings international experience of direct investing and asset management.

• Mr Lundquist has extensive experience of originating, underwriting and executing real estate debt investments across Europe. He has spent the last six years working in London, most recently at the Merchant Banking Division at Goldman Sachs.

Brunswick Real Estate has been involved in many landmark deals in the Nordic region and is consistently ranked as the number one adviser by market volume. Over the past 12 months, BRE has established separately managed accounts for clients with total equity commitments in excess of €850 million. Most recently, its investment management arm Sveafastigheter was listed as “Most consistent performing fund manager” globally in the Preqin Global Real Estate Report 2016. Brunswick Real Estate Capital I is the first real estate debt fund in the Nordics focusing on senior secured lending and its investors include some of the largest institutions in the region.

Commenting on this enhancement of the BRE teams, Peter Leimdörfer, Founding Partner and CEO, said:
“These appointments reflect the robust growth we are experiencing in the Nordic markets, and the increasing interest from international investors in Nordic real estate. We are always looking for exceptional talent that can add significant value to our clients and we are very excited about our new team members. Andreas, Harri and Aksel all bring with them a wealth of international experience and relationships, which fits well with BRE’s increasingly global client base and network, as seen with our opening of a London office last year.”