Balmain and Sharman Church set up CEE advisory firm

27
Feb
2017
News - Balmain and Sharman Church set up CEE advisory firm #advisory #Balmain Asset Management #CEE #Poland #Sharman Church Chartered Surveyors

by Ákos Budai | Career

The partners of Balmain Asset Management and Sharman Church Chartered Surveyors have signed an agreement to merge the advisory businesses of Balmain and Sharman Church. The combined entity will trade under the newly established name of BSC Real Estate Advisors. The firm will provide clients with a complete set of service lines across all commercial property sectors including offices, retail, investment, industrial and property management. Balmain Asset Management will continue to trade as a completely separate entity continuing its focus on Asset and Investment Management.


BSC Real Estate Advisors will be a fully independent commercial real estate advisory firm covering the Polish & CEE markets. It will be run and owned by its partners. The Executive Board of BSC Real Estate Advisors will comprise: Jason Sharman who is appointed as Managing Partner and will run Investment and Business Space; Paul Cawood will lead the Retail Leasing team and Tim Rylance will oversee Property Management, Management Accounts and Project and Technical Services. 
 
The firm will employ around 79 personnel with the Warsaw based staff looking to fully integrate into one office location by early April 2017.



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