Adler will be located at the London fund management offices of Pramerica Real Estate Investors Ltd., effective July 1, and will oversee Pramerica’s operations in Europe, which include transaction offices in Luxembourg, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon and Istanbul.

Adler reports to Allen Smith, CEO of Pramerica Real Estate Investors, headquartered in Parsippany, N.J. “I’m delighted that Eric is joining Pramerica,” said Smith. “His experience across all of Europe provides a level of expertise that complements our existing team in Europe and provides the leadership necessary to expand the range of opportunities we offer investors worldwide.”

Before joining Pramerica, Adler co-directed Tishman Speyer’s European activities and was a member of its Global Management and Investment committees. Earlier, he worked for Morgan Stanley, where he led MSREF’s activities in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. He also had overall operational responsibility for MSREF’s Special Situations Fund II. Before that, he worked for Credit Lyonnais and Unibail in Paris.Munich-based Pramerica Real Estate International AG’s CEO Georg von Werz continues to report to Allen Smith.

“With his multicultural background, Eric is the ideal person to lead Pramerica's Pan-European platform, which seeks to consistently find high quality transactions and provide asset management support,” von Werz said. Pramerica has fund management offices in London, and in Munich, which has a long track record of serving German-speaking clients. Both benefit from the company’s shared resources through offices in Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Luxembourg and Istanbul.

Pramerica Real Estate Investors, which began operations in the UK in 1990, now has a presence in eight cities throughout Europe and offers a range of strategies, most recently expanded with a new debt strategy and UK investment strategy. Strategies provided through Pramerica’s two European fund management centers in London and Munich include its Pan European open-end commingled strategy, designed for a broad range of international investors seeking exposure to European commercial properties.

The firm also offers closed-end commingled strategies that pursue opportunistic investing and specialized products for specific investor groups, including those designed specifically for German clients or Sharia'ah-compliant strategies designed for clients seeking Islamic structures.

Source: Pramerica