Carlyle Europe Real Estate Appoints Agnès Riban and Olivier Petreschi as Co-heads of Acquisitions in France

Paris, France - The Carlyle Group, the global private equity firm, today announces the appointments ofAgnès Riban and Olivier Petreschi as Co-heads of Acquisitions in France. They will be responsible for the investment process of the new fund Carlyle Europe Real Estate Partners III in France and Benelux, including investment selection, financial analysis, negotiation and implementation of contracts and debt structuring.

Eric Sasson, Managing Director and head of Carlyle’s European real estate operations, comments: “Agnès and Olivier thoroughly deserve this promotion after several years spent in the French investment team where they have actively participated in the success of our first two funds.”

Before joining Carlyle in 2001 as an Associate Director, responsible for the acquisition process, Agnès Riban was a financial analyst in the acquisitions team of Lasalle Investment Management. She studied applied mathematics and statistics at Paris IX Dauphine University.

Olivier Petreschi was also an associate director in charge of the acquisitions process since 2001, working on acquisitions such as Campus Schlumberger and L’Imprimerie Nationale. Before this, he was an analyst in the offices investment division at Unibail (2000-2001) and at Mazars (1998-1999). Mr. Petreschi holds a Masters degree in international law from HEC and also obtained a Masters in business tax law from Paris IX Dauphine University.

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