Key Takeaways
- • John Pattar is a Partner and Head of KKR's Real Estate business in Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong, having joined KKR in 2018.
- • Pattar played a key role in fundraising KKR Asia Real Estate Partners (AREP), KKR's inaugural Pan-Asian real estate fund with a US$1.7 billion corpus.
- • AREP takes a flexible investment approach across mixed use, commercial, industrial, hotel, office and retail assets and platforms.
- • Before KKR, Pattar served as CEO of CLSA Real Estate from 2004, where he built a Pan-Asian platform including the Fudo Capital value-added fund (US$2.2 billion equity raised) and a Core Fund mandate with Mitsubishi Estate Company managing US$600 million gross AUM.
- • Pattar has more than 27 years of experience in Asian real estate, with transactions of approximately US$5 billion sourced and completed at CLSA Capital Partners.
Summary
KKR's publisher profile of John Pattar, a Partner and Head of Real Estate for Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, outlines the background of a senior executive leading the firm's regional real estate franchise. Pattar joined KKR in 2018 and played a key role in the fundraise of KKR Asia Real Estate Partners (AREP), the firm's inaugural Pan-Asian real estate investment fund. According to the profile, AREP has a US$1.7 billion corpus and pursues a flexible strategy across assets and platforms in mixed use, commercial, industrial, hotel, office and retail sectors.
Prior to joining KKR, Pattar was CEO of CLSA Real Estate from 2004. The profile credits him with building a Pan-Asian real estate platform at CLSA that included Fudo Capital, a value-added fund with US$2.2 billion in equity raised, and a Core Fund mandate with Mitsubishi Estate Company (MEC) managing US$600 million in gross AUM. He oversaw day-to-day operations of Fudo Capital, which targeted direct real estate investment across Asia Pacific. On behalf of funds and principals of CLSA Capital Partners, he sourced and completed Asian property deals of approximately US$5 billion.
Pattar has more than 27 years of experience in Asian real estate, including work in South East Asia from 1992 to 1997 and in Hong Kong since 1998, with a focus on North Asia. His expertise spans property investment, development, capital transactions and asset management across China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia. He holds an LLB from King's College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).
Prior to joining KKR, Pattar was CEO of CLSA Real Estate from 2004. The profile credits him with building a Pan-Asian real estate platform at CLSA that included Fudo Capital, a value-added fund with US$2.2 billion in equity raised, and a Core Fund mandate with Mitsubishi Estate Company (MEC) managing US$600 million in gross AUM. He oversaw day-to-day operations of Fudo Capital, which targeted direct real estate investment across Asia Pacific. On behalf of funds and principals of CLSA Capital Partners, he sourced and completed Asian property deals of approximately US$5 billion.
Pattar has more than 27 years of experience in Asian real estate, including work in South East Asia from 1992 to 1997 and in Hong Kong since 1998, with a focus on North Asia. His expertise spans property investment, development, capital transactions and asset management across China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia. He holds an LLB from King's College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).
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