Barings boosts European Real Estate team with multiple hires

Barings has made several appointments in Germany and the Netherlands in recent months, demonstrating the firm’s ambitions for continued growth across Europe.

Jochen Becht, Leon Kräuter, Nikolaus Trotzky, and Viktor Ophoven all joined Barings’ German real estate equity team and are based in Frankfurt.

Becht joins Barings as a director in asset management and will report to Johannes Miethke. He has held asset management positions at Allgemeine Hypotheken Bank Rheinboden, Goldman Sachs / Archon, and AXA Investment Managers. Most recently, he ran different development and asset management portfolios at Corestate.

Kräuter joins as an analyst in asset management from d.i.i., where he also was part of the asset-management team. He also will report to Miethke.

Ophoven and Trotzky both join the transaction-management team and report to Nikolas von Kleist. Trotzky joins as a senior associate from LGT Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm in Zuri