Shopping for scale

One of the last really big transactions completed by Reino was the purchase of Buma’s portfolio of eleven office assets. How did you get to be in a position to carry out such a big deal? Radosław Świątkowski, co-founder and CEO, Reino Group: We are in the investment and asset management business – and this is all about scale. Reino is a totally unique company on the Polish market. It was established 12 years ago by private individuals without substantial financial resources to compete on a market entirely dominated by big foreign investors. Our mission was to provide Polish investors with the opportunity of investing in the Polish commercial real estate market. And since we still don’t have Polish REITs and Polish pension funds are not even allowed to invest directly in real estate, it might all have seemed like a suicidal business plan. Reino’s story has been one of a struggle to achieve the necessary scale and succeeding against all odds. And the Buma deal