Nuveen Real Estate makes senior hires to lead its strategic transactions team in Europe

Nuveen Real Estate has appointed Batih Van Leer and Stefano Rubini as managing directors and co-heads of its strategic transactions team in Europe.

The new appointments align with Nuveen Real Estate’s focus on sourcing and executing high-yield investment opportunities across all real estate sectors and will see Van Leer and Rubini working in partnership with Nuveen’s existing vertically integrated sector specialist teams across Europe. They also will oversee Nuveen’s European value-add series, including capital raising and deployment for an upcoming second strategy, working with fund manager David Pearce.

Van Leer and Rubini will join Nuveen Real Estate’s senior leadership team, which oversees the management of the European real estate team’s overall business. They will both be based in the firm’s European head office in London from January.

Van Leer joins Nuveen after nearly a decade at Ares. Before this, he held roles at CBRE Investment Management