To further strengthen its focus on individual client requirements and providing optimal service, Savills, a leading global real estate services provider, has created a new position within its German Corporate Finance – Valuation (CFV) team, appointing Björn Kunde (37) as Head of Debt Advisory Germany with effect from 01.07.2015.

In this new role as Director CFV, Kunde will support the further expansion of transaction business in the portfolio segment as well as taking responsibility for the Debt Advisory business line in Germany. Kunde will be based at Savills' Berlin office.

Kunde brings extensive and long-standing experience in corporate finance and joins Savills from Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, where he worked since 2012, most recently as Director of Corporate Finance / Restructuring Services. In this latter role, he was primarily responsible for overseeing equity and debt transactions in the real estate and financial services sectors. He was also a member of the German Real Estate Management team at Deloitte. Previously, Kunde spent six years at the real estate subsidiary of HSH Nordbank AG, where he was a divisional director of Portfolio Management / M&A from 2009.

Karsten Nemecek, Managing Director Corporate Finance – Valuation at Savills Germany, said: "The high pressure to invest is attracting more and more investors into the portfolio segment while, at the same time, portfolio holders are taking advantage of the favourable conditions in the capital markets to review their options with regard to their portfolios.  There are currently incredible levels of activity on both the supply and demand sides. With his experience and expertise on both the equity and debt sides, Björn Kunde is ideally equipped to give us an even broader perspective in terms of consultancy services in our transaction business."

Draženko Grahovac, Head of Valuation Europe / Managing Director Corporate Finance – Valuation, adds: "To provide optimal service to our clients, particularly in a pan-European context, it is more important than ever to offer a networked consultancy approach which is independent of products. In transactions, valuation and financing, there are numerous intersections and mutual influences, meaning that our integrated approach offers significant added value for our clients."