Henrietta Yap joins real estate consulting firm, strengthening investment advisory offering
SINGAPORE, 5 JANUARY 2017 – JLL has appointed Henrietta Yap as Director of Corporate Finance, Greater China, bolstering the firm’s capabilities in structured finance, capital raising and debt advisory. She reports to Eddie Yeh, Head of Corporate Finance, Greater China, JLL.
“We’re delighted to welcome Henrietta into our growing corporate finance team,” says Mr Yeh. “Her appointment is part of a strategic focus for JLL on enhancing the range of services we offer to real estate investors in Greater China and, more broadly, across Asia Pacific.”
Yap will be working closely with JLL clients in Greater China to come up with a suite of solutions to meet their investment goals, including fund or joint venture structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and capital and debt raising for sophisticated financial restructures.
The demand for these services comes on the heels of a growing appetite among Chinese investors for overseas property assets. According to JLL data, in Q3 2016 China overtook the U.S. to become the largest cross-border real estate investor, having invested nearly US$18 billion into commercial property assets internationally in the first three quarters of the year.
“Our clients are increasingly demanding advice on a range of financing options for their real estate investments,” says Stuart Crow, Head of Capital Markets, Asia Pacific, JLL. “To respond to this need, we are increasing the depth of our specialist talent in corporate finance so that we can provide this valuable, strategic advice alongside our existing spectrum of services, bringing together investment banking with global commercial property expertise.”
Yap joins JLL from AT Capital Group, a Singaporean private investment firm, where she focused on private equity investment across China, Europe and Southeast Asia. She has experience spanning a range of markets within Asia Pacific and a broad cross-section of transaction styles.
Yap previously worked in private equity investment for Standard Chartered Bank in both Singapore and Beijing as well as covering investment analysis, investor relations and research at Mapletree and Keppel Land.
The announcement of Yap’s appointment follows on from that of Hong Kong-based Mr Yeh in August 2016 to lead the firm’s Corporate Finance team in Greater China.
In May 2016 the firm recruited Tim du Temple to head its debt advisory business in Australia, to better service clients seeking non-bank lending options for real estate investment.
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