LaSalle Debt & Value-Add Strategies continues strategic growth with key hires

LaSalle Investment Management has appointed Rosanna Phillips as managing director in its debt investments team and Kevin Kong as director of acquisitions for value-add investments, adding to the continued growth and expansion of LaSalle Debt & Value-Add Strategies in Europe.

Phillips was general counsel at Intriva Capital, an investment firm focused on asset-backed special opportunities in Western Europe. In that role, she was responsible for overseeing legal matters in relation to the business including legal advice, risk evaluation, structuring and execution. Before that Phillips spent more than 10 years at Linklaters, with a focus on European real estate finance and was seconded to LaSalle in that role.

Kong joins LaSalle with more  than 12 years of real estate investment experience. He served in UBS Asset Management’s Multi-Managers Real Estate group as a director. Before that he spent eight years at Meyer Bergman, most recently as senior vice president for