Alvarez & Marsal hires Real Estate and Hospitality M&A managing director
Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) continues to scale its Corporate Finance practice in the UK and EMEA with the appointment of Jan Crosby as a managing director in London. At A&M, he will build out the practice’s Real Estate and Hospitality M&A capability across Europe alongside Samantha Ward.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr Crosby was head of Corporate Finance at Savills Capital Advisors, where he advised on corporate M&A and capital raising across operating real estate in the Living, Alternatives and Hospitality sectors. Before that, he led KPMG’s Real Estate M&A team.
He specialises in advising clients on a range of transactions including buy-side, sell-side, capital raising, recapitalisations and restructuring and has extensive experience across housebuilding, developers, social housing, strategic land, senior living, care homes, hospitality and leisure, holiday parks, pubs, multi and single family build to rent, self-storage, marinas, flex office, student accommodation, operating infrastructure, REITs, construction and infrastructure services and building materials.
Mr Crosby will further strengthen A&M’s Real Estate and Hospitality capabilities, joining managing director Samantha Ward, who has broad experience across both hospitality and wider operating real estate transactions. This hire underscores A&M’s focus on becoming a European market leader with both regional and sector coverage.
Commenting on his appointment, Jan Crosby said: “In a challenging macro environment, independent financial advice is even more critical to the success of transactions than it has been in recent years. It is an exciting time to be joining A&M to provide clients with this independent support, particularly as the opportunities for corporate and platform transactions continue to grow.
I am delighted to be joining a high growth team and working with many former colleagues. Our ambition is to grow an M&A team across the operating real estate and hospitality sectors that is recognised as market leading in the quality of its advice and which can draw on the wider A&M skill set across operational improvement, restructuring and debt advisory. A&M’s global connectivity and footprint gives us an impressive reach as trusted advisor across financial sponsors, family offices and corporates.”
Jonathan Boyers, managing director, and head of Corporate Finance EMEA said: “I’m proud to welcome Jan to help build our Real Estate and Hospitality capability across EMEA. He has a tremendous depth of experience across the sector and across deal types, which I’ve seen in operation when we worked together at KPMG. He brings a significant network and specialist sector knowledge which will combine powerfully with the wider practice.”
Samantha Ward, managing director, said: “We are thrilled to be growing the team and I look forward to working with Jan on deals across the hospitality and operating real estate sector. We already have a unique position in hospitality, being able to deliver deep operational advice alongside corporate finance and Jan’s arrival will further deepen our experience and execution capability across Europe.”