Decus Capital — Real Estate Capital Advisory

Momentum.

Capital Momentum

We can move mandates from first call to investor introductions in weeks, not months.

Institutional-Ready Materials

Our proprietary platform produces institutional-grade data rooms, financial models, and offering documents within days of mandate signing. Automated gap analysis identifies exactly what sophisticated investors will ask for. Expert oversight ensures every assumption is defensible. Sponsors enter investor conversations with materials that meet the standards of the most demanding investment committees.

Precision Investor Matching

Speed without targeting is noise. Our systematic approach identifies the investors most likely to deploy — matching strategy, geography, ticket size, and risk appetite against live deployment mandates. Over 500 institutional contacts, continuously expanded through proprietary sourcing tools that uncover non-obvious capital partners.

Capital Stack Structuring

The right capital structure determines sponsor returns. We advise across the full spectrum — senior debt, mezzanine, preferred equity, JV equity — designing waterfalls, promote triggers, and alignment mechanisms that optimise economics while meeting institutional governance requirements. Structure expertise, not just placement.

Private Equity Fluency

Institutional investors and entrepreneurial sponsors speak different languages. We translate complex real estate strategies into narratives that move investment committees — bridging local market knowledge with institutional expectations around governance, reporting, and risk management.

Aligned Economics

No retainers. Success-based compensation only. We underwrite our conviction by sharing the entrepreneurial risk of capital formation. Where appropriate, we extend to co-investments alongside clients — because alignment is demonstrated through capital, not contracts.

Strength.

Built Different

Institutional rigor and proprietary AI technology, delivering entrepreneurial speed.

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Technology-Enhanced Advisory

Proprietary AI-driven evaluation systematically identifies gaps in institutional readiness. We support from financial model structuring to data room setup. Our advanced framework handles extensive analytical work, keeping our focus exclusively on judgement, strategy, and investor relationships. The result: institutional-quality output at entrepreneurial speed, without compromise.

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Dual Fluency

Capital raising fails when advisors speak only one language. Our team has been navigating capital markets on both sides, and speaks the language of both institutional investors and entrepreneurs. Being able to navigate both shapes everything: which metrics we highlight, how we structure materials, and which investors to prioritise for the mandate.

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Systematic Sourcing

Relationships open doors. Data ensures you knock on the right ones. Our investor intelligence platform tracks deployment mandates, allocation shifts, and strategy pivots across 500+ European institutional investors in real time. Every outreach campaign is informed by current market positioning, not historical relationships alone.

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Full Transparency

Sponsors receive real-time reporting on every investor interaction: who was contacted, their feedback, and recommended next steps. No black-box processes, no quarterly updates. Market intelligence flows continuously so sponsors can adjust strategy based on live institutional sentiment.

Focus.

Enabling Growth

We engage where sponsor capability, market timing, and institutional appetite converge.

Value-Add & Opportunistic

Repositioning, redevelopment, ground-up development, ESG retrofitting, and best-use conversions. We partner with sponsors creating measurable value through active management — strategies that institutional capital increasingly prioritises.

Direct Capital Deployment

Our investors deploy equity and structured credit directly with proven operators. Programmatic joint ventures, co-investments, and platform-level commitments — always anchored by underwritten assets and executable business plans.

Institutional Ticket Size

Institutional-scale opportunities with meaningful capital absorption. Our partners seek sponsors who can deploy programmatically across multiple projects with demonstrable pipeline depth.

Full Capital Spectrum

Senior debt, mezzanine, preferred equity, JV equity, and hybrid structures. We match capital structure to risk-return profile, capitalising on the convergence of private equity and private credit markets.

Sector Agnostic

Logistics, residential, data centres, life sciences, student housing, and beyond. We facilitate investments where operational expertise and real estate fundamentals create defensible competitive advantage.

Pan-European Platform

Core markets: UK, Germany, France, Benelux. Growth markets: Spain, Italy, Nordics, select CEE. Our network connects local operators with global institutional allocators across every major European jurisdiction.

Execution.

Track Record

We deliver across capital types and geographies, with tangible client references.

Debt Capital Markets

€89M

Hybrid Senior Loan

Successful introduction of a €89M hybrid debt facility via one of the top 10 global asset managers within 12 weeks.

Joint Venture Equity

€32M

Joint Venture Equity

Decus Capital ran a targeted process, enabling our client to select optimal terms and strategic alignment.

Mezzanine Financing

€7M

Mezzanine Financing

Competitive 85% LTC mezzanine financing via a Swiss alternative credit fund, enhancing project IRR by more than 6%.

Equity Co-Investment

€28M

Equity Co-Investment

Through a leading Swiss private bank's high-net-worth platform, structured via a Luxembourg feeder vehicle.

Engage.

Partners Only

Every mandate receives full senior partner attention, no compromises from day one.

Michael Qamar

Managing Partner

Founder

"Best-in-class capital advisory is about introducing long-term partnerships, not only chasing capital for a single deal."

Michael has navigated European and US institutional markets for more than 25 years, building an extensive corporate track record across business development, product management, strategy consulting, and wealth and asset management. He then moved into the private market sector, bridging the divide between entrepreneurial RE sponsors and sophisticated capital allocators. His deep understanding of both institutional counterparts and real estate opportunities enables targeted introductions and lasting strategic partnerships. Beyond his established network of 300+ institutional GPs and family offices, Michael continuously cultivates relationships with emerging managers and new capital allocators.

Rene Levermann

Senior Partner

Financial Analysis & Modelling

"Exceptional models are the most critical business card for deal sponsors and reveal hidden value drivers that others miss."

Rene transforms basic development proformas into institutional-grade financial models that withstand the scrutiny of demanding institutional investors. His 20-year private equity background brings rigorous analytics, scenario testing, and value-driver identification to every underwriting exercise. His models incorporate IFRS-compliant accounting, sophisticated waterfall mechanics, and real-time KPI tracking, elevating sponsor presentations to institutional investment committee standards. This quantitative excellence, combined with deep operational understanding, ensures every assumption is defensible and every projection achievable.

Norbert Kathriner

Senior Partner

Strategic Communications

"Institutional investors decide in seconds, and we command these seconds through precision and impact."

Norbert elevates investment communications to an art, bringing 25+ years of award-winning design leadership to institutional fundraising. As former design professor and founder of a premier digital agency, he transforms complex stories into compelling visual narratives that command investor attention. His expertise spans brand strategy, information architecture, and persuasive storytelling, ensuring every pitch deck, teaser, or website meets the highest standards of institutional players. Norbert's uncompromising quality and fast turnaround capability make him invaluable when demanding perfection under time pressure.

Hans-Peter Mächler

Senior Partner

Debt Capital Markets

"The best debt structures unlock equity returns while protecting downside, and that's where art meets science."

Hans-Peter brings three decades of structured real estate finance expertise, having originated and executed €1B+ in complex debt transactions from senior construction facilities to hybrid mezzanine instruments. His mastery spans bank credit committees, alternative lenders, and debt funds, navigating evolving regulatory frameworks and market cycles. His institutional banking pedigree, combined with entrepreneurial structuring creativity, enables sophisticated solutions for challenging situations, from development finance to distressed refinancing. Hans-Peter's stakeholder management expertise ensures smooth execution across multiple counterparties and jurisdictions.

Registered Address Decus Capital GmbH
Seestrasse 69
8806 Bäch, Switzerland

General Enquiries info@decus-capital.com

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Connecting European RE sponsors with sophisticated capital

Capital Momentum

Built Different

Enabling Growth

Track Record

Partners Only

Connecting
European RE sponsors
with sophisticated capital