Jonathan J.L. Driscoll
is Founder of the Bream Real Estate Group. He holds a BA (Hons) from King’s College, London, is registered as a Corporate Finance Rep with the UK FCA and is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS).
He has 38 years’ experience of direct and indirect real estate investment, development and operational management. He has lived in UK, France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Malta and has transacted in 14 European jurisdictions so far.
From 1986 – 1998, he sourced and managed prime office and retail development projects in central Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin. From 1994, he also developed the first logistics park in the Czech Republic, totalling 150,000 m2, on behalf of the German utility eon’s commercial property arm as their first international investment transaction and helped create planning norms and lease contract standards.
From 1998, he originated and managed local operating platforms in 8 European countries whilst at Pelham Partners Ltd, backed by the Apollo Funds and producing average realised IRRs in excess of 35%. During this period, he also instigated, part pre-leased and managed the development of e-Shelter in Frankfurt, at 109,000 m2 the largest data centre campus in Continental Europe, housing the ECB’s disaster recovery facility.
In partnership with Baupost Capital from 2002, he led the successful repositioning of well over 1 million m2 of mixed office and industrial assets across Germany, building up BEOS AG as the prime industrial asset and fund management business in Germany, at substantial IRR’s and equity multiples. He also ran transactions into German retail, Spanish office and residential and Portuguese residential programmes alongside local specialist managers.
In 2008, he started the Bream Real Estate Group, as a reaction to the paucity of hands-on management experience evidenced by many of the local operating platforms he encountered throughout Europe and to be able to pursue opportunistic investments into locally-sourced transactions alongside trusted operating partners whose company he can enjoy.
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