Our Core Competence
iMallinvest Europe is an independent, dedicated retail asset management and retail investment advisory firm.
Your deal. Our business.
We advise institutional real estate investors and developers of urban shopping destinations in their acquisitions, complex asset restructuring and disposal programs. We contribute independent expert views to your financial underwriting and your asset specific, strategic business planning. Your deal is our business!
Our clients benefit from combined 42 years of our partners‘ niche market experience in the field of European and North American retail real estate, with asset types ranging from large-scale regional shopping malls and retail parks to local high-street properties and well integrated inner-city department stores in many different investment regions such as Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Scandinavia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Canada and USA.
Key Services
iMallinvest provides the following services
Strategic Asset Management
Retail Asset Management Advisory Service
- Holistic retail asset management advice
- Comprehensive business plan reviews
- Strategic scheme repositioning projects
- Identification of key business plan milestones
- Centre management tender processes
- Renegotiation of planning consents
- Asset stabilisation programmes
- De-risking of future cash flows
- Redevelopment advice
- Conceptual thinking
Mergers & Acquisitions
Transaction Related Advisory Services
- Identification of M&A targets
- Transaction management services
- Commercial due diligence services
- Performance modeling advice
- Business plan underwriting
- Steering of Q&A processes
- Portfolio structuring
- Disposal strategy
- Deal origination
- Exit sourcing
Management Consulting
Strategic Business Consultancy Services
- Optimization of organizational management structures and institutional decision making procedures
- Establishing cross-border partnerships
- International Joint Venture partnerships
- Streamlining of operational asset management routines
- Implementing international reporting standards
- Defining Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- How to run cross-border investments?
- Senior management coaching
- Interdisciplinary team training
iMallinvest Team
We serve to the best of our clients!
Steffen Hofmann
Managing Partner
Steffen Hofmann is Founder and Managing Partner of iMallinvest. He founded the company in 2014 and previously worked for Henderson Global Investors, the Henderson-mfi Joint Venture and
Commerz Grundbesitz Investmentgesellschaft.
Steffen is a genuine European retail real estate specialist with more than 20 years of shopping centre industry experience. Having operated in eight international markets (GER, AUT, UK, SWE, ESP, POR, ITA, HUN) he displays a sophisticated understanding of shopping centre investment and asset management mechanics across the continent.
Steffen is chairing the asset management panel of the German Council of Shopping Places (GCSP) since 2015. He is also a regular lecturer at the International Real Estate Business School (IREBS).
Klaus Mennickheim
Managing Partner
Klaus Mennickheim is Managing Partner of iMallinvest. He joined the company on 1 January 2018 and previously worked for Union Investment Real Estate, SEB Asset Management, Commerz Grundbesitz Investmentgesellschaft and Hochtief.
Klaus is a globally experienced retail investment management expert with 20 years of vast institutional investment and asset management experience in as many as nine different investment regions across the globe (GER, AUT, NL, SCAND, ESP, ITA, TUR, CAN, USA).
By virtue of his background as Civil Engineer, who also holds an international MBA, he features extensive technical real estate know-how combined with comprehensive commercial understanding and hugely valuable deal negotiation skills.
Benjamin
Bösser
Project Director
Our Project Director Benjamin Bösser brings smart solutions to the widening retail asset management challenges of the asset class. He combines deep retail expertise with valuable mixed-use experiences gained earlier in his career. Benjamin joined iMallinvest coming from a nationwide student housing developer & operator platform. He started his retail real estate career in the expansion team of the McDonald’s Incorporation.
Julia
Pfaff
Marketing Assistant
Julia Pfaff is our Marketing & Communication expert in the iMallinvest team. She coordinates our company's marketing activities and also organizes our key client events. Julia has been with iMallinvest since 2015. She possesses valuable industry experience through her previous activities as Team Assistant in the German retail team of Henderson Global Investors (2008-2011) and is fluent in German, English and Spanish.
Tobias
Lötzsch
Project Director
In his role as Analyst Tobias Lötzsch importantly contributes to our team's holistic asset management approach. He is a financial markets expert and a skilled process manager, who joined iMallinvest in autumn 2019 coming from the fund management department of KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau). Toby has a Master degree in International Economics and Public Policy.
Jennifer
Pfannmüller
Team Assistant
Beyond doubt our great team assistants are the backbone of our company. In her role as professional allrounder Jennifer Pfannmueller coordinates our team's diary, meeting spaces and business trips, collects signatures and competently manages our day-to-day office administration. Jen joined our team in 2019 and is fluent in German and English. We are very glad to have her with us!
Carolin
Hochstätter
Team Assistant
Our second team assistant is a true retail expert! Carolin Hochstätter joined iMallinvest in 2018 at that time coming from the market leading fashion retailer Peek&Cloppenburg, where she acted for more than a decade as department leader in the field of local store administration of various major P&C stores across Germany, e.g. in Main-Taunus-Zentrum (Sulzbach), Loop 5 (Weiterstadt) and the P&C flagship store at their company's headquarter (Düsseldorf).
Tanja
Hofmann
Office & HR Manager
Tanja Hofmann manages the HR activities inside the growing iMallinvest team. She also oversees the administration of both of our iMallinvest team offices in Mainz and Hamburg. Tanja previously worked for the German construction company Bilfinger Berger, where she contributed to complex infrastructure projects in foreign international markets. She has a background as technical planner and is a certified trainer for Computer Aided Design.
Our Office Locations
Our company offices are located in Mainz (Rhine-Main region) and Hamburg.
Mainz
The iMallinvest Rhine-Main Office is located at
Kapuzinerstraße 38 - 55116 Mainz - Germany
Hamburg
The iMallinvest Hamburg office is located at
Rödingsmarkt 9 - 20459 Hamburg - Germany
Our Brand
iMallinvest Europe GmbH is an independent and dedicated retail investment and asset management advisory firm.
Our business activities launched in spring 2014.
iMallinvest Europe GmbH
iMallinvest is a registered brand owned by the iMallinvest Europe GmbH. The company is registered under HRB 44943 with the local court of Mainz.
