Chris Hunt
Head of Corporate Development & Shareholder Relation
Good afternoon, and good morning to those joining from North America. Thank you for joining us today to talk about ICG Real Estate. I am pleased to be joined by Krysto Nikolic, who joined ICG in 2022 to lead our global real estate business. And today, we want to explain where ICG Real Estate fits within the firm, how the platform has been built and why we believe it will represent an increasingly important contributor to the firm’s growth in the coming years.
Real estate is a large and investable market, and we believe our platform is increasingly well positioned to meet client demand in a disciplined and scalable way. We’re pleased to share our perspectives with you today, and we’ll leave time for questions at the end.
The long-term opportunity in real estate for ICG is underpinned by a number of clear strengths. Across both debt and equity, we have built positions in real estate segments such as net lease, where we see durable investment opportunities alongside client demand and where our underwriting approach is well suited to the risk profile. We invest across the capital structure and consistent with ICG’s broader DNA, we are comfortable with complexity where it supports downside protection and managing risk in an appropriate fashion.
A key differentiator, and Krysto will talk about this later, is our ability to originate opportunities through long-standing corporate relationships across the wider ICG platform. Taken together, origination track record and client demand and in
