Axèle Bastien has been appointed Global Head of Legal for AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets, effective immediately.
Axèle joined AXA Investment Managers in 2006 as a corporate lawyer within the Legal team. She moved to AXA IM – Real Assets in 2009, and was initially in charge of Real Estate Funds and Partnerships structuring as well as mandates, before taking the responsibility in 2013 of a global team in charge of Legal matters of all the equity investments (Real Estate, Alternatives and more recently Infrastructure) made on behalf of AXA IM – Real Assets’ clients. Her responsibilities were including non-regulated products structuring, complex transactions across Europe and the U.S., asset management, developments projects and the negotiation of mandates.
The diversity of her experience, covering the whole span of our activities (Funds, mandates, club deals & JVs, transactions) both for our real estate and infrastructure activities will be an asset in leading the global legal team, operating globally from three countries (France, UK and Belgium), through its new challenges.
Before joining AXA Investment Managers, Axèle was a M&A private lawyer at Landwell & Associés and Gide Loyrette Nouel during six years, where she advised several groups in their external growth and internal restructuring projects.
Axèle graduated from the DJCE/ DESS droit des affaires in 1999 and from the Paris Bar Exam in 2000.
Pictured : Axèle Bastien
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