Savills has appointed Johannes Schneider as a director in its corporate finance – valuation team in Germany. In his new role Johannes will focus on portfolio sales and real estate business divestments. On the buy side he will be responsible for advising on due diligence in commercial transactions and for drawing up net operating income analyses.  He is based at the firm’s Berlin office.

Prior to Savills Johannes worked for 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, latterly as a senior manager in the real estate advisory team where he lead the real estate transaction services team in the firm’s Munich office.

Karsten Nemecek, managing director in Savills corporate finance – valuation team, says: “With this expansion of the team our emphasis and focus is still very much on building up client relationships and knowledge in order to offer the highest possible quality of service.  Johannes’ extensive experience makes him a real asset to our team and we are convinced that his addition will help to further build on our strong position in the market.”