IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
4 Oct - 9 Oct 2026
B4 7+8+10, Level 0
Session information
Committee(s)
Real Estate Section
(Lead)
Closely Held Companies Committee
Description
Join the round table discussions to discuss the following topics:
- Key challenges in real estate (e.g. geopolitics, ESG considerations, land costs, and growing complexity such as data centres, mixed-use projects, and office-to-hotel/residential conversions);
- What’s new in real estate financing? (e.g. the move from traditional bank lending toward equity structures and private financing, as well as crowdfunding and REITs);
- The evolution of real estate asset classes (from traditional sectors like office, retail, industrial, and hospitality to newer concepts such as data centres, co-living for different demographics, mixed-use schemes, and tokenised assets); and
- Is it still real estate or already infrastructure? (e.g. emerging investment areas such as battery storage systems (BESS), energy developments, and defence-related projects).
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Mario Paura | Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Co-Chair, Commercial Real Estate Subcommittee |
| Anna Wyrzykowska | WKB Lawyers, Warsaw, Poland; Social Media Officer, Real Estate Section |
Speakers
| Vibhore Chaturvedi | NIIF Infrastructure Finance Limited , Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Daniel Heyden | Dissing Weitling, København S, Denmark |
| Lasse Vittus Hupfeld | Bech-Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Lior Koren | Cushman Wakefield RED, København K, Denmark |
| Diana Nabuuso | Renaissance Advocates , Kampala, Uganda |
| Sungtae Park | Bae Kim & Lee, Seoul, South Korea |
| Sushant Shetty | Fox Mandal & Associates, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Co-Chair, Commercial Real Estate Subcommittee |
| Alessandro Trainia | HortenDahl, Copenhagen, Denmark |