To deliver consistent returns to our partners and investors through unrivalled synergy of debt financing and real estate expertise

About Us

COH is a fully integrated firm specialized in real estate investments, asset and property management. We combine hands-on operational expertise and financial acumen to assume complex and challenging investment and management projects on behalf of our capital partners and clients. Our investment business employs a wide range of strategies grounded in a disciplined and consistent investment process and capitalizes on the local knowledge and hands-on operational expertise of our operating business, in order to deliver superior value to our capital partners. Our Operating Partner business, is headquartered in Paris, France, and operates on the basis of a “one stop shop” model with expertise, skill and knowledge spanning all phases of property acquisition, management and disposal.

Offering a full range of tailor made solutions adapted to all real estate asset classes and specific clients’ needs we undertake each assignment with an owner’s mindset in order to deliver high quality service, create value and reduce risks for our clients.

Focusing on Pan-European opportunities, we make investments consisting of direct investments in real estate assets as well as private investments in the debt or equity of real estate companies and real estate related companies.

Our flexibility is a competitive strength to design tailor made solutions meeting the needs of all stakeholders in a transaction and to craft investments with attractive risk/reward profiles. We offer a full range of services to corporate and institutional clients including asset management and property management for owners and investors.

What makes us different

Historical know-How

A reputation for integrity and flexibility, with realistic and imaginative strategies that regularly deliver superior investment returns.

Capital preservation

Preserving capital through disciplined risk management, combined with an ability to adapt to market conditions.

Maximizing the value

Maximizing the value of the investment by enhancing capital value and/or improving operating cash flow.

The Investment Team know-how and expertise

2.5 billion

Assets under management

50 real estate

properties under
management including
office, retail, hotel and
residential properties

800

highly
qualified
employees

Investment strategies

Opportunistic

Our opportunistic approach is a straightforward investment strategy. We seek to acquire best quality, well located assets at discounts to replacement cost, address any property or business issues through improved asset management, and sell the assets once COH objectives are accomplished.

Capital appreciation

COH capital appreciation investment strategy seeks to leverage COH’s “opportunistic” strategy to deliver compelling risk-adjusted returns. We target best quality assets with a lower risk profile, longer hold periods, and a significant current income component.

Debt Investment

With an Investment Team having over 20 years of expertise in the financial debt instruments, strategies and execution, COH is looking for opportunistic investments  providing creative lending solutions.

Management and execution

Integrated approach of investment and management

Our fully integrated real estate  business  relies on constant communication and frequent asset strategy reviews with the entire Investment Team. COH has one centralized Investment Team that meets monthly to carefully review and challenge every investment. This team is backed by best external service providers and in-house expertise.

Execution capacities

COH’s high level relationships within the industry allow  to identify and execute small, medium and large complicated transactions with efficiency and certainty at attractive pricing metrics. COH’s Operating Partner has expertise and dedicated teams to, office, hotel, retail, residential and debt servicing. This  provides invaluable real-time proprietary market data informing our Investment Team of market and property conditions and trends.

Transparency & disclosure

At COH, transparency and disclosure are fundamental to the way we conduct business. We strive at all times to ensure that our investors, team, legal entities and all parties with whom we do business can rely on us to operate in a responsible, transparent and ethical manner. We have a deep commitment to professionalism, fairness and integrity in all of our business activities.

The Investment Team

Eric Elkain

Eric’s expertise in founding and managing real estate companies and properties provided him with a solid base on which to cultivate his business development abilities.

Before moving into real estate, Eric excelled as fund raiser in the financial markets and then as an entrepreneur. The companies he founded, developed and sold, include an internet investment fund, a logistics/industrial company and a stock brokerage company. After ten years of working in the European and US real estate and the hotel businesses, Eric has built himself an exclusive network of professionals that stretches into every corner of the real estate and hotel markets. He has transacted over €5 billion worth of real estate, and has over 3’000 hotel rooms currently under management.

Such transactions include the Garden Beach Hotel in Juan-les-Pins, the 31/33 rue des Jeuneurs buildings in Paris, and the Hotel Meridien in Paris (largest hotel in France).

Nicolas Bravard

Nicolas began his career at Société Générale (Paris, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo) where he conducted trading and sales in the Emerging Market debt and derivatives group from 1992 through 1994. Then, from 1994 to 1999, Nicolas started Morgan Stanley (London)’s Emerging Market Debt Sales, and then moved to establish the High Yield Debt Trading activities of Morgan Stanley (London). In 2000, Nicolas was responsible for High Yield Debt Trading and distressed Debt Trading at Merrill Lynch (London), and from 2000 to 2002, he was responsible for the European High Yield Debt Trading team at Goldman Sachs (London).

In 2002, Nicolas joined Alpstar Capital Group as Managing Partner and member of the Board. He founded the Alpstar Credit Fund Business, raising over US$ 2bn of assets, and managing up to US$ 5bn of investments. During his career at Alpstar, Nicolas has traded, monitored and executed over US$ 75bn of financial transaction across global markets. He was a director and portfolio manager for several Alpstar investment management entities. In 2012, Nicolas established the Investment Holding of the group.

In 2013, after selling its asset management entity, Nicolas established the Investment Holding of One Capital Group. Nicolas holds a Business Administration degree from the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord (EDHEC) in France.

Francesco Crivelli

With an institutional investment background stretching various countries, Francesco’s Real Estate Investment Expertise is key in successfully bringing the moving parts of a complex deal together.

During his career, Francesco participated to the set up of the European Real Estate Headquarters based in Paris for Standard Life Investments and transacted over €3 billion worth of real estate, a large proportion of which were ground up developments. With over ten years of activity in the European real estate markets, Francesco has accumulated very large amounts of knowledge, experience, and network.

Francesco’s recent activities include the developments of a 117’000m² logistics warehouse and a 30’000m² retail park, both in Italy, and the acquisition of over €350 million worth real estate in Paris and Ile de France.

Our portfolio

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Hotel

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Residential

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Office

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Retail