Hotel & asset sales
Sell-side mandates for boutique and luxury hotels, châteaux and prime residences. Teasers, information memoranda and targeted outreach to qualified buyers.
- Off-market
- Teaser & IM
- Buyer qualification
Real estate · Hospitality · Trading
Discreet advisory for hotels, estates and the capital behind them.
AFI Global advises owners, family offices and investors on hotel and residential transactions, capital raising and commercial partnerships across Southern Europe, acting as principal or under exclusive mandate.
AFI GLOBALReal estate · Hospitality · Trading
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Lausanne46.52°N 6.63°ECET
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Working in English · Français · Italiano · Español
Services
Four practices, one point of contact.
Each engagement is led personally from first conversation to closing, with confidentiality agreements in place before any asset or investor is named.
Buy-side sourcing
Hotel acquisition searches for family offices: defining the brief, screening the market and bringing forward assets that fit the mandate, often before they reach the open market.
- Family offices
- Screening
- Pre-diligence
Capital raising
Equity and debt for hospitality and real estate projects, placed with family offices and private investors. Structuring the story, the numbers and the investor list.
- Equity
- Senior & mezzanine
- Investor relations
Partnerships & trading
Commercial partnerships, distribution and trade introductions between European and US counterparts, drawing on two decades in luxury retail and leasing.
- Introductions
- Leasing
- Cross-border
How a mandate runs
From first call to signed deed.
A deliberately short chain: the principal you speak to is the one who negotiates for you.
01 — NDA
Qualify
Confidentiality signed, objectives and constraints set out, fit confirmed on both sides.
02 — Mandate
Prepare
Teaser, information memorandum and data room, or an acquisition brief for buyers.
03 — Outreach
Match
Targeted, controlled approach to a short list of buyers, sellers or investors.
04 — Closing
Negotiate
LOI, diligence coordination and terms through to notarial signing.
Markets
A Mediterranean focus with a global reach.
Our core markets are around the Mediterranean, where we know the owners, operators, notaries and lenders personally. From Lausanne and New York we work with buyers and investors worldwide, and take on mandates wherever our clients need us.
FR
France
Côte d'Azur, Loire Valley, Île-de-France estates and hotels.
IT
Italy
Tuscany, Florence and resort hospitality.
ES
Spain
Hotel assets, Costa del Sol villa developments and energy-efficiency partnerships.
GR
Greece
Cycladic boutique hotels and development finance.
Worldwide
Global
Family offices and private capital in Europe, the US and beyond.
LanguagesEnglishFrançaisItalianoEspañol
Founder
Good transactions start with the right introduction, and the right introduction starts with discretion.
AFI Global was founded by Alexander Fromme, who brings more than twenty years in luxury and commercial real estate on both sides of the Atlantic. Before AFI Global he spent over a decade at Omega in Biel as Leasing & Wholesale Development Manager, negotiating prime retail locations worldwide alongside the major international brokerage firms.
His career began in New York with Sotheby's and Sandler O'Neill + Partners, and continued with Christofle, Swatch Group US and Gucci Group Watches. He also founded the Swiss insurance brokerage Swissinsur. Educated in Florence and Paris, he advises in four languages.
Alexander FrommeFounder & Managing Director
Sotheby'sSandler O'NeillChristofleSwatch Group USGucci Group WatchesOmegaAUP Paris
Ventures
Gratias Founding hotels
Digital tipping for luxury hospitality. Guests thank hotel staff in a few seconds, with no app or account, and the money goes directly to the employee, never through the hotel.
Co-founded by Alexander Fromme and Hugo Manteau (Masof Consulting)
gratias.io ↗Contact
Every conversation is confidential.
info@afiglobal.chLausanne
Vaud, Switzerland
AFI Global SARL
New York
New York, NY, USA
AFI Global LLC