Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has completed the reorganisation of its real estate finance origination team following the departure of Harin Thaker in January.
The German lender has appointed Norbert Müller to take responsibility for its international customers with regional focus on the French, Scandinavian and Spanish markets from 1 September 2012.
Müller comes to pbb from the shopping centre specialist and family-owned Belgian company Wilhem & Co, where he was responsible for investment and asset management.
Previously, he had worked for more than 10 years at Jones Lang LaSalle where he held a number of positions, including head of the Brussels and Luxemburg capital markets teams as well as managing director in Germany, and international director, European capital markets in the Benelux countries, Scandinavia, central Europe, Austria and Switzerland.
He has also held positions at BBL (now ING) and DePfa Bank (now Aareal Bank).
The reshuffle was announced in March when Charles Balch was appointed to take over international customers with cross-boarder activities and the UK and CEE markets effective from the beginning of June.
Gerhard Meitinger took over responsibility for real estate business in Germany at the beginning of May.
On management board level, Bernhard Scholz is responsible for both real estate finance and public investment finance, pbb’s second business area.
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