Francisco De Leon

Francisco has been in the real estate/fund management industry for over 15 years and was based in
Tokyo for 13 of those years. He is fluent in Japanese and has a large network of industry contacts both
in Japan and in wider Asia, particularly in SE Asia.
Francisco began his career at UBS Investment Bank based in Tokyo as part of its Debt Capital Markets
team. There he covered numerous Japanese corporates on bond issuances as well as overseas
companies on Samurai bond financing. He then moved to Macquarie in their fund management arm
and worked on the launch of several Macquarie funds, including the SMBC PB Select Infrastructure
Fund, which raised money from Japanese HNWs for investment into global infrastructure assets.
The bulk of his career was spent at CLSA where he was part of the Tokyo team of Fudo Capital, the
private real estate equity fund arm of CLSA Capital. He worked on numerous acquisitions during his
time at Fudo with deal value in excess of USD700mn. He was also in charge of investor reporting and
market research for the Japan team in their communications with overseas LPs, which included large
US pension funds and endowments.