Thomas Bergander and Sven-Christian Frank are founding Aequitas Real Estate GmbH, a real estate investment boutique based in Munich. Aequitas provides international investors with access to complex transactions in value-add and restructuring situations. In terms of types of use, the focus is on residential and office properties in Germany. The focus will be on portfolio transactions, club deals for project development plots as well as company takeovers and restructurings. The company wants to support investments with a volume of around one billion euros over the next three to five years.
Founders Thomas Bergander and Sven-Christian Frank act as Managing Partners of Aequitas Real Estate. Both have an extensive track record and a broad investor network. Bergander is the owner and managing director of the Berlin-based project developer Taurecon GmbH. Sven-Christian Frank is a lawyer and was most recently a member of the board of directors of the Adler Group.
Aequitas works with strategic cooperation partners. They are proven market and financing experts who support the platform with their respective expertise, network and market access to deals and capital. The cooperation is project-related and on a contractual basis; there is no participation under company law or function as an executive body. The strategic cooperation partners are:
Michael Zahn provides support in deal sourcing and investor approach.Francesco Fedele, CEO of BF.direkt AG, advises on the structuring and procurement of debt capital.Dr. Kristian J. Heiser, Partner at Raschke von Knobelsdorff Heiser, supports the structuring of deals.
“Successful investments today require the integrated combination of deal flow, access to capital and operational implementation expertise. This is exactly where we position Aequitas. The long-term goal is to build a leading platform for complex real estate transactions and institutional investments in the DACH region,” says Sven-Christian Frank.
Thomas Bergander explains: “After years of rising valuations, value creation in the real estate market is once again being created through active management and intelligent structures. Many market participants are facing refinancing and restructuring tasks, while institutional investors are acting more selectively than ever before. This results in entry opportunities with an attractive risk-reward profile. We are convinced that now is the right time to build a specialized investment platform that brings together capital, deal sourcing and execution expertise.”
