DWS is expanding its real estate investment management business by acquiring Peakside Capital Advisors. The global asset manager has signed binding agreements to acquire 100% of Peakside from shareholders led by its founders and managing partners, Stefan Aumann and Boris Schran. Peakside is a specialist real estate asset manager focused on value-add and opportunistic investments in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe.
Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Peakside operates across Germany, Luxembourg and Poland, investing in office, retail, logistics and residential real estate. It manages more than €1.7bn in assets, mainly on behalf of institutional investors. Peakside’s current owners Stefan Aumann, Boris Schran and Simon Lutz, together with other members of Peakside’s senior management team, Frank Schäfer and Karol Maziukiewicz, will remain with the business following completion of the transaction.
DWS said the transaction will strengthen its alternatives platform by adding established value-add and opportunistic investment expertise and a strong track record to its European real estate business led by Clemens Schaefer.
Source: IPE Real Assets on 5 Oct 2026
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