Real Estate Investment and Asset Management Company

Antonia is leading the financial team at Avant and is focusing on investor reporting and business controlling as well as general performance and investment analysis. The financial team is working closely together with the asset management team to provide investors with tailor-made and high-quality investor reports. In addition, Antonia takes part in acquisitions and divestments and holds a central role in the financial and tax due diligence related work.

Prior to joining Avant, Antonia spent four years as an auditor at KPMG.

Antonia holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from Åbo Akademi University, majoring in auditing and accounting.

Kai is responsible for value-add work to maximise the value of the property portfolios. He is the main point of contact for key tenants in the managed portfolios. Kai has initiated, organised and completed several successful lettings and sustainable capex projects. Kai has previously served as Finance Manager at Avant and holds strong controlling, reporting and financial management skills.

In addition to asset management responsibilities, Kai takes part in acquisitions and divestments and holds central role in commercial and financial due diligence.

Prior to joining Avant, Kai served as an analyst at Advium Corporate Finance, a leading Finnish investment bank where he worked with real estate transactions as a buy- and sell-side advisor for several domestic and foreign property investors.

Kai holds an M. Sc. in Economics from the Aalto University.

Mikael is responsible for deal sourcing and execution, investment analysis and stakeholder relations.

Prior to joining Avant, Mikael worked at KPMG Deal Advisory for four years, participating in several M&A deals on both buy- and sell side. Before KPMG, Mikael spent two years at Greenstep’s CFO services as an outsourced financial advisor for multiple SMEs within different industries.

Mikael holds an M. Sc. in Economics from University of Vaasa, majoring in Finance.

Lorenz´s focus is on new client relationships, investments and finance. 

His background and experience makes him one of the most internationally recognized figures in the Finnish and Nordic real estate markets, having been involved and responsible for projects in all of the Nordics and Germany exceeding a billion EUR both on the debt and the equity side.

Prior to joining Avant he was with Trevian Asset Management, where he was, as a Partner, responsible for all of the firms new Investments and international clients. During his tenor the firm has grown into an internationally recognized company and became one of Finland’s leading Asset Management firms with AUM exceeding 800 MEUR at the time if his departure.

Before joining Trevian, he served as the Investment Director for HGR Property Partners, a premier local real estate investment and development company. Before that he spent close to a decade with two major international senior banks where he was ultimately responsible for management and loan origination for the Nordic region for Hamburg based DGHyp bank building up a performing Nordic loan book exceeding 300 MEUR within 2 years.

He earned a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Leipzig and is active in the development of the property and investment profession by serving on the board of RICS Finland.

Matias is focusing on residential investments including deal sourcing, investment analysis and stakeholder relations.

Prior to joining Avant, Matias worked at NREP with residential transactions. He has extensive knowledge of the Finnish housing market. Before NREP, Matias has held business development and analytics roles within the energy industry.

Matias holds an M.Sc. in Business Economics of Forestry from the University of Helsinki.

Miro is focusing on portfolio controlling and reporting, and gives support in letting work with his strong financial competence. 

Prior to joining Avant, Miro worked in EY and PwC in roles for both financial due diligence and auditing. In addition, he has worked with the pricing of tenant-owned-apartment loans in HMA. 

He holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from Aalto University, majoring in accounting. 

Teemu is one of the leading professionals in property development and value-add asset management. He has considerable hands-on experience in serving the users of properties from the viewpoint of an asset manager, developer and advisor.

Teemu is highly interested in creating sustainable, cost-efficient solutions for capex, tenant improvements and for the maintenance of property portfolios. He is also active in transaction work, having sourced and divested a number of off-market investments with impressive returns.

Prior to co-founding Avant, Teemu set up Mattila & Saxen Property Partners with Avant co-founder Juha Mattila, their company reached an AUM of over 300 Meur, working in real estate asset management with leading companies such as Sveafastigheter and McDonald’s where he focused on value-add and development work.

Before setting up their own company in 2010 Teemu worked at Sjaelso, a listed Danish property development company where he held a central role in the exponential growth of the Finnish business by identifying, developing and leasing out greenfield development projects. He started his real estate career at Catella in letting advisory where he successfully carried out several headquarters leasings. He holds an M. Sc. in Economics and Business from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki.

Tuulia is focusing on financial management and working closely with asset managers in securing and controlling financial performance of the managed portfolios. She holds a key role in business planning, investor reporting, and leading budgeting and forecasting processes, and KPI follow-up. In addition to financial and management reporting, Tuulia is involved in acquisitions and divestments and supports especially in financial and tax due diligence related work.

Tuulia is a skilled tax professional in the field of real estate. She has over a decade of experience in property asset management specializing in financial and management reporting and related development as well as in group consolidation and controlling tax implications.

Prior to joining Avant, Tuulia worked at Newsec in a senior position for financial controlling and most recently as business controller being key strategic support for international property investors investing in different asset classes in Finland.

Tuulia holds an M.Sc. in Real Estate Economics from Aalto University and an M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from Helsinki School of Economics.

Leo is responsible for the Colony office portfolio in Finland.

Prior to joining Avant, Leo worked at Newsec in a variety of roles from 2014 to 2022. Leo has executed a number of headquarter relocations, including site search, tendering and lease negotiations. He understands office tenants’ needs in the ever-changing hybrid environment.

Most recently Leo was responsible for the operations and development of a major European investor’s over EUR 1 billion office and logistics portfolio. He implemented several development projects, optimised maintenance operations and coordinated the implementation of ESG initiatives. He played an important role in building the asset management business at Newsec.

Leo holds a M. Sc. in Real Estate Economics from Aalto University. His Master’s thesis investigated digital tenant representation and was implemented as Newsec’s digital tenant representation system that is still widely used.

Ville is focusing on portfolio controlling, investor reporting and performance analysis. He works in close co-operation with the asset management team and provides investor reports to our JV partners.

Prior to joining Avant, Ville worked at CBRE and was responsible for financial management and portfolio controlling including a leading Helsinki CBD shopping center among other assets. Ville handled monthly and quarterly reporting, budgeting, the audit process with auditors and presenting reports to investors. Before CBRE, Ville worked in listed companies and gained strong knowledge in business controlling, performance analysis and financial reporting.

Ville holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from Turku School of Economics.

Jussi has a wide experience in asset and investment management, transactions and financing, and has been active in the market since 2001.

Prior to co-founding Avant, Jussi served as a director at Amplion Asset Management (later Catella Asset Management), a Helsinki-based investment and asset management firm part of Catella Group with EUR 350m under management. Prior to joining Amplion in 2013, Jussi was one of the early partners at Nordic Real Estate Partners (NREP), an awarded Nordic private equity real estate company, where he established the Helsinki office in 2006 and was involved in multiple transactions and fund launches across the Nordics. He was serving as a key man at, among others, the highly successful NREP Logistics AB fund with SEK 1.6Bn in equity.

Before the entrepreneurial part of his career, Jussi was serving at Aberdeen Asset Management in Helsinki, where he lastly held a position as head of transactions, being responsible for the transactional activities on behalf of the selected segregated mandates and funds.

Jussi holds an M. Sc. in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics.