India’s Rise: What Is The Opportunity For Institutional Investors

Priyank Shah is a part of the Senior Leadership team of JLL Capital Markets covering Asia Pacific region. In his current role, Priyank is directly responsible for cross-border investment transactions for the capital markets business of JLL Asia Pacific.

Priyank currently is a part of the Asia Pacific team and has relationships both at private and institutional investors globally. The Capital Markets business advises & structures real estate investment transactions on behalf of real estate funds, developers and global financial investors. These include investments in core assets, development projects, restructuring corporate real estate portfolios and secondary trades.

Priyank has been with Jones Lang LaSalle since 2011, with varied responsibility for the Markets business (commercial assets leasing and sales) and for the Capital Markets business. He has over ten years of experience in the commercial real estate and real estate financing business. 

Over the past 10 years, he has worked with several large real estate developers, corporate occupiers, investors and funds advising them on sales, strategic planning & investment strategies. He covers pricing, sales strategy, lease structuring advisory, structuring joint ventures, equity raising and advising on disposals and acquisitions in core markets. He has dealt with the multiple global institutional investors such as Ascendas, Blackstone, Brookfield, GIC, CPPIB, Tata Realty and Infrastructure, Tishman Speyer, and Starwood Capital. 

He has been instrumental in some of the largest core asset trades in India such as FIFC, Waverock, Express Trade Tower and SP Infocity. Earlier in his career, Priyank also worked in the office transactions (project marketing) and investment sales business within JLL where he structured transactions for some of the large developers and occupiers in the country. He is currently the country head for India on the young professionals group for ANREV (Asian association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles)

Prior to his exposure in real estate he has been a derivatives dealer on the swaps desk at Tullet Prebon (Prebon Yame India) where he managed the interest derivatives desk (overnight index swaps desk and currency forward swaps) within the interbank market on the OTC-interbank market for overnight index swaps and currency forwards.