GRI Data Centres Europe 2025
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Program
Opening Talk Show
Opening Talk Show: Europe CRE Outlook
Capital, confidence, and what comes next
- Investment Appetite – Transactional volumes to rebound or dry-powder to remain dry?
- Pricing & Valuations – Asset repricing unlocking entry points or risk premiums still widening?
- Capital Allocation & Portfolio Winners – Where to place our bets: offices, retail, logistics, data centres…?
- Debt vs. Equity – Leaning into mezz and preferred equity or keeping the capital stack simple and senior?
- Risk & Returns – Underwriting for resilience or aiming for higher yields?
Data Centres
Data Centres Challenges
Power, regulations & the path to scale
- Power Demand – Managing soaring energy needs amid grid limitations or investing in innovative efficiency solutions?
- Energy Costs – Navigating volatile pricing impacts on data centre profitability or leveraging hedging strategies?
- Regulatory Compliance – Aligning with complex environmental and zoning laws, or facing delays and added costs?
- Technology Adaptation – Future-proofing facilities with new tech or facing obsolescence risks?
- Sustainability Reporting – Meeting evolving ESG disclosure standards or struggling with inconsistent metrics?
Data Centres
Fundraising for Data Centres
Market complexity aligned with investors´expectations?
- LP Return Expectations – Real estate income profiles or infrastructure-style long-duration returns?
- Valuation Confidence – LPs comfortable with pricing transparency or cautious in specialist markets?
- Equity Partner Profiles – Pension funds, SWFs, insurers, or infra GPs leading large cheque writing?
- Funding Mix – Shift toward open-ended platforms or preference for closed-end, project-specific capital?
- Fund Differentiation – GPs innovating to stand out in a competitive data centre fundraising market?
Data Centres
Strategic Partnerships in Data Centres
Win-win returns or competitive advantage at sight?
- Partner Selection – Aligning strategies for long-term value, or risking mismatched priorities?
- Risk Sharing – Effective de-risking through collaboration, or diluting control and returns?
- Capital Access – Unlocking new sources of growth, or adding layers of decision-making and approvals?
- Operational Control – Leveraging local expertise and networks, or losing strategic direction?
- Exit Strategies – Designing flexibility for changing market conditions, or locking in suboptimal outcomes?
Closing Talk Show
Closing Talk Show: CRE Institutional Trends
Fund flows, allocations, and performance-driven capital
- Fund Formation – Raise with scale from day one or secure anchor investors and build in phases?
- Investment Mandates – Core comfort or value-add edge?
- Capital Deployment Timing – Wait for further repricing or lean into first-mover advantage?
- Underwriting & Risk-Adjusted Returns – Staying strict on historical IRRs or adjusting to market realities?
- Structuring Preferences – Stick with commingled scale or shift to SMAs and bespoke capital?
Lionel Grotto
Directeur délégué en charge de la stratégie et du développementBouygues Construction - France
France
Son arrivée chez Bouygues Bâtiment Industrie marque une nouvelle étape dans la structuration et le développement des activités industrielles du groupe. Lionel Grotto aura pour mission d’accélérer le développement de nouveaux marchés et de renforcer les partenariats stratégiques aux échelles locale, nationale et internationale. Sa connaissance du secteur et son expertise lui permettront d’adapter l’offre de Bouygues Bâtiment Industrie aux besoins des acteurs du secteur. Il contribuera également au déploiement de projets de développement immobilier en lien avec les équipes de Linkcity.
Partha Sarathy
Head of Asset ManagementPictet Group
United Kingdom
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Pan European Institute Partner
Institute Partner
With the largest commercial real estate team in Europe and one of the biggest worldwide, CMS is well positioned to help investors, funders, developers, landlords and occupiers navigate all aspects of the real estate market and maximise their assets. Whatever the size and scope of your project or deal, with almost 800 lawyers in 39 countries we have the resources to meet your needs quickly and ef?ciently, offering expert advice. We have been active in real estate in our markets for decades, so we understand the culture, the economic context, the local legal context and the history.
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+330607164839
Levallois-Perret | Hauts-de-France | France
As a professional services company, Ayming partners with businesses and institutions around the world to unlock lasting value, year after year. With 39 years of expertise, we achieved a group revenue of €184 million in 2024 and operate across 14 countries.
Our Taxes team guides organizations through complicated tax requirements, turning them into opportunities for profit, while supporting clients in their risk management.
https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/locations/emea/poland
+48 22 445 3100
Warsaw | Poland
Law - Construction - Real Estate – Infrastructure – Public Private Partnership – Finance – Mergers & Acquisitions – Tax – Dispute Resolution - Energy
https://buildingminds.com
+49 30 99273815
Berlin | Berlin | Germany
BuildingMinds enables owners and managers of real estate to de-risk and drive the performance of their portfolios, clear regulatory hurdles, and protect portfolio valuations across day-to-day operations now, and in the future. Its technology platform is helping some of the world’s largest organizations to transform real estate from a resource-consuming industry into a resource-generating industry. By leveraging AI to optimize decarbonization strategies, BuildingMinds’ platform offers ESG reporting solutions that ensure organizations adhere to global and local policies and standards, including upcoming regulatory changes. BuildingMinds was founded in 2019 by Schindler Group to meet the company's need for building data monitoring and management and has grown to a team of more than 150 experts across 40 countries. With over $100M in funding from Schindler and technological support from Microsoft, BuildingMinds has expanded to meet the needs of real estate managers across reporting and ESG
http://www.cliffordchance.com
+44 20 7006 1000
London | United Kingdom
We are one of the world's largest law firms with significant depth and range of resources across five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegiate and team based way of working.
We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not for profit organisations. We provide them with the highest quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise.
London | United Kingdom
Climate X is a climate risk data provider with the world’s only fully integrated climate risk platform, helping financial institutions manage and build resilience to climate change impacts on the built environment. They provide climate financial risk data to global asset managers and banks, safeguarding economic stability against climate risks.
Climate X’s innovative solutions (Spectra and Adapt) enable investors and portfolio managers to address climate challenges, manage investments, and retrofit structures for a sustainable future.
http://www.colliers.com
+39 02 6716 0201
Milan | Lombardia | Italy
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https://www.dentons.com/en/global-presence/europe
+44 20 7242 1212
London | United Kingdom
Dentons is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Enterprise, Dentons’ wholly owned subsidiary of innovation, advisory and technology operating units. Dentons' polycentric approach, commitment to inclusion and diversity and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com.
https://us.gleeds.com/
+33 (0)1 40 38 64 24
Paris | France
Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1885, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world.
http://www.azora.es/
+34 913 106 370
Madrid | Madrid | Spain
AZORA is an independent private equity styled asset manager of real assets, based in Spain but investing across Europe and the USA. It currently manages €9.2 bn of AuM (once its various vehicles committed firepower is fully invested) with Hospitality and Living representing c. 70% of this. AZORA has a value-add approach with a strong track record in pioneering new assets classes in Southern Europe and a special expertise in building fully integrated platforms in operational assets classes.
http://www.jll.fr
+33 1 4055 1515
Paris | France
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
https://www.yardreaas.it/en/services/all-services
+39 02 7780701
milano
Yard Reaas is an independent group, a leader in Italy in real estate consultancy and integrated management of real estate services.The Group operates both in the institutional market and in the distressed segment for Italian and foreign investors, banks, asset management companies/funds, industrial groups, private equity and family office funds. It boasts over 30 years of experience in technical (due diligence, project management, project monitoring), environmental, ESG, valuation, and property & building management sectors. It counts around 300 internal resources, a network of 550 technicians, approximately 1,000 appraisers on the territory, and over € 60 million in revenue.
Its activities involve single properties or entire portfolios, with reference to all asset classes (office, retail, industrial/logistics, residential, hospitality, healthcare, sport and infrastructures, etc.).
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