Nassar Hussain

Biography: Nassar has in excess of 25 years of experience in real estate finance, structured finance and real estate investment. During this time he has established a number of successful real estate debt platforms (both principal and advisory). Nassar founded Brookland in 2009, a multi-award winning real estate investment banking firm, active across a broad range of real estate debt sectors and products including debt arranging (loans and capital markets), restructurings and workouts and sales and investment advisory (NPLs, non-core debt and distressed real estate and operating businesses). Brookland has completed 80+ transactions representing capital in excess of €37.5bn and is in Real Estate Capital’s Hall of Fame for the number of awards it has received. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch where he was a Managing Director responsible for a number of real estate finance product areas including establishing its CMBS conduit (Taurus). Prior to his career in investment banking he was a solicitor and practiced at Clifford Chance for several years. Nassar is Chair-Elect of CREFC-Europe. As well as being a member of its Board of Directors, he was Chair of its CMBS 2.0 Committee and assisted to establish its first DE&I Committee. He has been involved in industry consultations with bodies such as the Bank of England and the European Banking Authority and has contributed chapters and articles for publication. Nassar has an LLB (Hons) and an LLM from the University of London.