Financing Provider of the Year, CEE

The award is open to any real estate financing provider active in Central & Eastern Europe in 2022. The jury is to consider the number, size, range and type of financing deals completed, as well as the company’s reputation on the market.

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Nominees

Aareal Bank

Looking beyond traditional banking business Aareal Bank AG can reliably appraise key trends, chances and risks at an early stage and implement our insights rapidly. Whether it is office buildings, hotels, shopping centres or logistic properties, whether in North America, Asia or Europe: our customised and flexible solutions support our customers in financing their international property investments. Our state-of-the art banking and software solutions and our innovative digital services help our customers to manage their properties in Europe in an efficient and service-oriented manner.

Bank Polska Kasa Opieki

The Bank consistently and actively implements the policy of granting loans to real estate sector. We have been present on the market for 20 years ,we have gained experience operating in different economic conditions, we are one of the leading lenders in the real estate sectors in Poland. We offer a full range of products that complement lending for developers and investors

Berlin Hyp

Berlin Hyp AG offers individual solutions for all aspects of real estate financing, serving all common asset classes as individual properties or in a portfolio. We are ideally positioned for large-volume and complex financings. Our clients include professional investors with strong credit ratings from the private and commercial real estate sector. We provide professional advice and assistance from the idea to the planning right down to the implementation.

BNP Paribas Bank Polska

During the period we were one of the most active banks financing real estate transactions in Poland. We closed 58 transactions with a financing volume exceeding EUR 1.1 bn. We assisted the clients in adopting towards the new challenging situation (pandemic, increasing construction costs, increasing interest rates). We continuously support our clients understanding the specific needs of different investors (local and international) and financing requirements of different asset classes.

Helaba

Helaba has been active in the CEE region since the late 90s. During that period the bank has always been available, also during difficult times, to provide reliable and tailor made development- and long term real estate finance to its partners. Helaba provides finance for office, retail, logistics and PRS projects.

pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank

We focus on our customers. With funding solutions tailored to meet the individual needs, pbb offers optimal funding solutions for professional national and international real estate clients as well as the public sector. Our customers benefit from regional origination teams and locally based specialists with a knowledge and understanding of the specific region. Among the markets in CEE the bank focuses in real estate financing on Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.

Santander Bank Polska

In a currently very volatile and highly competitive real estate financing market Santander Bank Polska is continuously growing and constantly adjusts to Customers’ needs. We have proven reputation in the market for consistently delivering our promises and being reliable long term business partner. Year 2020 and 2021 brought significant challenges to all market participants caused by COVID-19 pandemic and we entered year 2022 with war on Ukraine - Santander Bank Polska have reacted very quickly to those market disruptions continuously supporting Customers in all possible ways to help them during difficult period, which is highly appreciated by our Customers. Even in this challenging years we are still open for new business and provide new financing for various types of properties. This may be also confirmed by achievements in those years including financing (bilaterally or as an agent) several projects on the Polish real estate market.

Jury

Adam Łuciuk
Head of Debt & Structured Finance Poland
CBRE
Agnieszka Popko
Managing Director
ECE Projektmanagement Polska Sp. z o.o.
Andras Marton
Director - Transactions
Adventum Group
ANNA GŁOWACZ
HEAD OF INDUSTRIAL AGENCY
AXI IMMO
Anna Kicińska
Anna Kicińska Partner, Real Estate Advisory Group Leader, EY-Parthenon
Ernst & Young spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością Corporate Finance sp. k.
Anna Suchodolska
co-CEO and CFO at White Stone
White Stone Development Sp. z o.o.
Artur Apostoł
Managing Director - Real Estate Operations Poland
Globalworth
Dagmara Jarmicka
Director / Head of Advisory
Europtima
Dorota Latkowska
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
REINO Partners
Grzegorz Iwański
Director of the Financing Department
Echo Investment
JAKUB KUREK
Head of Industrial & Warehouse Department
NEWMARK POLSKA
Jakub Kutzmann
Local Partner
White & Case M. Studniarek i Wspólnicy - Kancelaria Prawna
James Turner
Group Managing Director
Sierra Balmain
Jarosław Zagórski
COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, BOARD MEMBER AT GHELAMCO POLAND
Ghelamco Poland
Kamil Kowa
Head of Corporate Finance & Valuation
Savills Poland
Konrad Pazorek
Head of Finance Stucturing
Peakside Capital Advisors Sp. z o.o.
Krzysztof Kałuża
Partner, Managing Director
Portico Project Management
Krzysztof Wójcik
Head of Legal & Corporate Secretarial Services, Attorney-at-law
Vistra Poland
Łukasz Białecki
Head of Real Estate Financing
Bank Pekao
Michał Ćwikliński
Principal, Managing Director - Poland
Avison Young
Michał Stachura
Board Member/CFO
L3 Sp. z o.o.
Nebil Senman
Managing Partner
Griffin Capital Partners Sp. z o.o.
Piotr Polakowski
Group Chief Financial Officer
Golden Star Estate
Przemek Kozdój
Partner, Head of Banking and Finance in Poland
Wolf Theiss P. Daszkowski sp.k.
Przemysław Kucharski
Managing Partner
Kucharski & Partners
Sebastian KIEĆ
CEO
AFI EUROPE POLAND
Tadeusz Jachowicz
Regional Director CEE
Gleeds Polska
Wolfgang Molnar
Executive Director
Erste Group Bank AG

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