Jefferies today announced the appointment of Christian Janssen as a managing director and head of commercial real estate debt capital markets Europe.
Janssen will be responsible for the origination and securitisation of European asset-backed debt financing, including commercial mortgage-backed securities, syndicated loans and loans secured on European commercial real estate. He will report to Steve Hulett and Craig Tipping, co-heads of Jefferies’ European MBS/ABS Group.
Janssen joins from Barclays Capital, where he spent seven years and was most recently a managing director in the commercial real estate finance group. Previously, he spent seven years at Morgan Stanley in New York and London as an executive director in the securitized products group, and prior to that spent three years at Credit Suisse in New York in investment banking.