InfraVia hires Laëtitia Archambault to lead asset management push

InfraVia has expanded its European real estate leadership with the appointment of Laëtitia Archambault as Asset Management Director. The hire follows the integration of OREIMA into InfraVia’s platform and is intended to deepen the firm’s capability to run and scale active property strategies across core, core-plus and value-added mandates.

Archambault joins a now 14-strong Real Estate team led by Brigitte Sagnes-Dupont, founder of OREIMA and partner at InfraVia. Her brief will focus on tightening operational oversight, improving asset-level performance and accelerating value creation across the combined portfolio as the enlarged team focuses on investment and hands-on asset management.

With more than 20 years in European real estate, Laëtitia brings sector-wide experience from roles at DTZ Investors, PIMCO and AEW. She previously led a roughly €9bn office, retail and residential mandate on behalf of the Allianz group and more recently ran asset management for AEW’s French multi-class portfolio totaling about €18bn for institutional clients and retail funds (SCPI).

The appointment comes at a moment when institutional allocations to real estate in Europe remain robust: investors continue to seek income and inflation-hedging assets while managers hunt for inefficiencies created by fragmented markets. By boosting in-house asset management capacity, InfraVia aims to extract operational upside and reduce reliance on external managers — an increasingly common strategy among European asset owners and managers pursuing higher-risk-adjusted returns.

From a strategic standpoint, the hire reinforces InfraVia’s intention to scale the OREIMA strategy across France and neighbouring markets. Combining local asset management expertise with InfraVia’s distribution and capital resources should enable faster portfolio repositioning, targeted capex programmes and leasing strategies that respond to post-pandemic occupier demand.

Commenting on the move, Brigitte Sagnes-Dupont said Archambault’s track record of running large, multi-asset portfolios will be central to driving performance across the group’s holdings. Market observers note that as managers consolidate, the premium on experienced asset teams is growing: firms that can show a hands-on approach to asset enhancement typically capture higher exit multiples.

Archambault’s academic background (Centrale Marseille and ESCP-EAP) and her cross-border experience—particularly managing assets in France and the Netherlands—align with InfraVia’s objective to grow active management capabilities across different property types and jurisdictions. The move is likely to reinforce InfraVia’s offer to institutional investors seeking a one-stop partnership covering capital, sourcing and asset operations.