Newmark announces the appointment of four high profile figures into its European Finance team. Andrew Allen joins as Head of Investment Strategy; Hoong-Wey Woon joins as Managing Director; Max Hagelstein join as Director; and Phil Creed joins as Director.
The strategic appointments bolster Newmark’s market-leading global team of Debt, Equity and Structured Finance professionals. Led by Charlie Foster and Matthew Featherstone in Europe, the new hires bring deep experience that further elevates the firm’s rapidly expanding finance business, across priority sectors including Data Centres and Powered Land, Residential, Offices, Industrial and Hotels. The group will work closely with other new hires in Europe, joining existing teams providing services across Germany, France and the UK., and in collaboration with Newmark’s robust U.S. Data Centre team.
Michael Lehrman, President, UK and Europe, said, “We have hand picked a distinguished class of appointees to join our exceptional Debt, Equity and Structured Finance team. They will focus their considerable expertise on financing the Data Centre and Powered Land sector, in addition to Office, Industrial and Residential mandates. The whole team supports Newmark’s wide range of sector experts across expanded geographies. Our ambition remains to command Financing and Investment markets across Europe, delivering the best advisory across the region. We’ve brought in the industry’s foremost thinkers and operators, giving us decisive strategic foresight, and unmatched execution capabilities.”
Andrew Allen will oversee the creation of bespoke thought leadership outputs for investor clients. He will be responsible for advice on client investment strategies, providing insights and data to shape investor capital planning. Andy’s focus will span the real estate sectors, from the rapid expansion of Europe’s Data Centres and Powered Land, to Commercial and Residential Capital Markets. He most recently held the position of Global Chief Investment Officer for Equity Investment at Savills Investment Management. He previously held the position of Global Head of Investment Research at Aberdeen. Andy also undertakes advisory positions that include Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV), Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF) and Investment Property Forum (IPF).
Hoong Wey Woon joins as a Managing Director and will focus on Real Estate, Lodging and Care sectors across Europe. He specializes in domestic and cross border M&A, Capital Raise and Structured Finance, across a variety of sectors including Healthcare, Data Centres, Living, Housebuilding, Hospitality and Leisure. Hoong Wey has over 25 years of transactional experience and has completed over £15bn of career transactions to date. He previously built and led the Real Estate, Lodging and Care Home Investment Banking teams at KPMG and Daiwa Securities DC Advisory Group (Daiwa).
Max Hagelstein joins as a Director and will be responsible for managing mandates across Europe, working closely with Hoong-Wey Woon. His expertise includes origination, execution and management of transactions across M&A, Debt and Structured Finance, covering both private and public companies in Real Estate, Hospitality & Leisure and Healthcare (Real Assets). Previous positions include roles at Daiwa, Rivercrown, Aviva Investors and GIC.
Phil Creed joins with a wide-ranging corporate finance background, having worked across global investment banks, including RBC, Citi and Nomura and a family office. With experience across equity and debt financings, the majority of his time has been spent on M&A, across infrastructure and UK public transactions.
The announcement follows Newmark’s recent expansion of its European Data Centre team, with the appointment of recognised market leaders Hamish Smith from JLL and Oliver Weston from Knight Frank, who will work closely with the Debt, Equity and Structured Finance team in the Data Centre space, underscoring the firm’s momentum and growing influence across Europe’s most dynamic real estate sectors.
About Newmark
Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries (“Newmark”), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark’s comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform’s global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the twelve months ended June 30, 2025, Newmark generated revenues of over $2.9 billion. As of June 30, 2025, Newmark and its business partners together operated from 165 offices with over 8,400 professionals across four continents. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
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