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Christian Janssen
Head of Real Estate Debt, Europe
About Christian Janssen
Christian is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Debt for Europe at Nuveen Real Estate (NRE) and is based in London.
Christian joined the organization in 2013 to launch its European Debt Platform. Prior to joining the business, Christian was a fund manager and co-head of commercial real estate lending at Renshaw Bay, where he established and launched its maiden CRE Debt strategy. Before this, Christian also worked at Barclays Capital for 7 years where he set up its European CRE lending, securitisation, syndication, and servicing platform. Prior to this, he spent seven years at Morgan Stanley’s Securitised Product Group in New York and London, and First Boston’s Mortgage Financial Engineering and Project Finance Groups in New York.
Christian has over 25 years of experience in structured finance, real estate debt and investment management. Christian graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Yale University.
Christian joined the organization in 2013 to launch its European Debt Platform. Prior to joining the business, Christian was a fund manager and co-head of commercial real estate lending at Renshaw Bay, where he established and launched its maiden CRE Debt strategy. Before this, Christian also worked at Barclays Capital for 7 years where he set up its European CRE lending, securitisation, syndication, and servicing platform. Prior to this, he spent seven years at Morgan Stanley’s Securitised Product Group in New York and London, and First Boston’s Mortgage Financial Engineering and Project Finance Groups in New York.
Christian has over 25 years of experience in structured finance, real estate debt and investment management. Christian graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Yale University.
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Nuveen, LLC provides investment solutions through its investment specialists. Nuveen Securities, LLC, member FINRA and SIPC
The information on this website is intended for U.S. residents only. If you are a non-U.S. resident, please visit the Global section of our website www.nuveen.com/global. This material does not constitute a solicitation of an offer to buy, or an offer to sell securities in any jurisdiction in which such solicitation is unlawful or to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such an offer.
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