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The new team will primarily be responsible for evaluating potential corporate level acquisitions, structured debt and equity opportunities. It will also be targeted at the higher risk return end of the investment spectrum.

The investments could include large scale joint ventures, private real estate operating companies, corporate sale/leasebacks, structured debt and equity interests, distressed debt and public company buyouts.

The new team includes new recruit to LaSalle Amy Aznar, who comes with a 13-year track record analysing and executing corporate deals. She will lead LaSalle's efforts in strategic entity-level investing, large transactions and joint ventures across the UK and Europe.

Aznar will be based in the London office from September and will report to Simon Marrison and Charles Maudsley, co-heads of LaSalle Investment Management Europe.

In a statement, LsSalle said: "Our aim in establishing this new enterprise across Europe is a deliberate, strategic move to capitalise on many of the immediate- and long-term opportunities we see in the corporate real estate market.

"Recent volatility offers investors in Europe an opportunity to maximise returns and we believe the overall outlook for the region remains positive, with Europe being home to some of the world's largest, most active property markets offering strong investment prospects."