Deloitte launches Real Estate Practice across Switzerland
The international consulting firm Deloitte is launching a Switzerland-wide Real Estate Practice, building on its existing Advisory business. The new service offering includes strategic and operational advice in real estate management as well as due diligence and restructuring services for companies and public organizations.
"We are convinced that this new service offering will add value to our Swiss clients within our broad range of M&A and restructuring services." Jean-François Lagassé, Senior Partner Financial Advisory Business Unit Deloitte Switzerland
Deloitte Real Estate (RE), a global network of more than 7,300 experts in over 50 countries, is now also present in Switzerland. The Swiss Real Estate team is led by Deloitte partner Karl Frank Meinzer and operates from offices in Zurich (headquarters), Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne and Lugano.
"We are convinced that this new service offering will add value to our Swiss clients within our broad range of M&A and restructuring services. With Karl Frank Meinzer and his growing team, Deloitte is very well positioned to advise local as well as international clients in Switzerland on optimizing their real estate portfolio," says Jean-François Lagassé, lead partner of Deloitte Switzerland's Financial Advisory business.
Karl Frank Meinzer, MRICS and member of CoreNet Global, has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate sector. Prior to joining Deloitte in mid-2015, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss office of the international real estate firm JLL, where he was responsible for the client base of large international corporations. Prior to that, he worked in various leadership roles in real estate and global sourcing, including consulting roles at Accenture and Goldman Sachs in Switzerland, Germany and Asia. (mr)
