Apex’s senior team has worked together as a group since the firm’s inception and combines prime investment management experience from across the globe with an insider knowledge of deal making and real estate development in the targeted markets.

Alistair Dixon, Partner  

Alistair was one of the founding members of the European Real Estate Private Equity industry and is one of its most experienced executives.

His thirty years’ experience in the real estate markets, twenty of which in investment banking and private equity, bring a unique investment track record and insight into global capital markets with a particular emphasis on emerging markets.

Alistair joined the New York based investment bank Bankers Trust (BT) in the late 1980’s. He continued his career with Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank (which acquired BT) for the next nineteen years, leaving in 2008, when CEO of the European business and Global Chairman of Deutsche’s opportunity Fund business (RREEF).

Throughout this period Alistair became a founding member of the European Private Equity business of BT and a senior member of its third party fund management business at Deutsche. Alistair was instrumental in the establishment of several Global and European Funds, providing a range of strategies, from value add to opportunistic. These Funds provided high quality investors returns consistently in the range of 20.0%.

Alistair has been directly involved in transactions totalling USD 10bn, led the Investment Committee and was a member of the RREEF Executive Committee. His direct Global team included 200 people with offices in 8 countries.

Alistair was one of the earliest investors in the emerging markets leading investment strategies in the mid-1990s in the Czech Republic and latterly in Russia, China and India.

Vojkan Brankovic, Partner

Vojkan is a highly experienced emerging market investment manager and one of the first fund managers to have established an institutional real estate fund in Russia.

He has over 15 years experience in the real estate funds management and investment industry, having held senior executive positions within MGPA, Baltic Property Trust (BPT), Morley Fund Management, and Aviva. Key roles he has held include; Managing Director for MGPA Emerging Europe, Fund Manager of BPT Arista SICAV SIF and Managing Director of BPT Asset Management in Russia, responsible for asset management and acquisitions. In these roles he has structured and managed a Russian real estate fund with an investment capacity of EUR 1 billion. Vojkan has a BA (Hons) in Economics and Finance from the European Business School in London and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

Marjorie Brabet-Friel, Partner

Marjorie is a cross border M&A specialist with a unique insider experience in the Russian real estate industry.

Marjorie is an M&A lawyer admitted to practice in NY and Paris. She spent six years at Skadden dealing with the most complex multi-jurisdiction transactions, debt financing and corporate governance requirements.

Marjorie has spent the last three years in Moscow where she joined Sistema-Hals, one of the leading Russian real estate companies listed on the LSE with a portfolio of c. USD 4bn in assets pre crisis. As a vice-president and member of the management board and together with her team of five, Marjorie was responsible for portfolio management including sourcing and executing strategic transactions as well as post acquisition integration. She originated, engineered and managed the set up and operations of two landmark partnerships with international partners for which she was also heavily involved in the financing and the development process. She also participated in the definition and implementation of the leasing and exit strategies of the portfolio’s key assets including a class A office development, a class B business centre an iconic shopping centre and an hotel in Moscow, a premium shopping centre in Saint Petersburg and a luxury beach resort in Sochi.

Marjorie is a Harvard Law School graduate and holds a Master in Law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Paris.