Partners Group strengthens real estate business team

Partners Group has strengthened its real estate business with the addition of three new senior leaders.

Karim Habra has more than 25 years of industry experience and joins from Ivanhoe Cambridge, the real estate investment arm of Canadian pension fund CDPQ, where he was head of Europe and Asia Pacific and global head of strategic partnerships. Prior to that, Habra worked at LaSalle Investment Management, where he was most recently head of Continental Europe; JER Partners; and GE Capital.

Stephen McCall will join Partners Group in the newly created role of global head of platforms & OpCos. McCall, who has more than 25 years of operational leadership experience, will be responsible for overseeing the firm's strategy for investing in real estate management teams and operating companies. McCall was previously CEO at edyn Group, an international hybrid hospitality platform owned by Brookfield Asset Management. Prior to that, he spent nearly 17 years at IHG plc, most re