Savills has hired Shun Endo as Managing Director within its Asia Pacific Capital Markets team with immediate effect. He will be based in Tokyo, Japan, and joins from CBRE where he was most recently Head of Data Center, APAC, Capital Markets. Previously he worked at KKR Japan helping private equity teams to unlock corporate real estate opportunities.
Endo will work with Neil Brookes, Savills Head of Asia Pacific Capital Markets, on the continued development of the company’s Capital Markets and Capital Advisory platform across Asia Pacific. His role will encompass providing end to end service to private equity firms and their portfolio companies as well as expanding the firm's Data Centre Capital Markets capabilities as investor demand for digital infrastructure continues to grow. This will involve working closely with the Eastdil Secured Savills Global Data Centre Capital Markets team to further strengthen a connected platform capable of supporting institutional clients across Asia Pacific, North America and EMEA.
Endo brings more than a decade of experience that spans both traditional real estate and digital infrastructure sectors across investment banking, principal investing and capital markets advisory executing complex instructions and unlocking value across a range of asset classes. He has advised on over US$4 billion of transactions since 2024, including real estate asset divestments and portfolio deals for private equity-backed companies, alongside complex capital transactions for stabilised data centres and mandates involving institutional investors and global operators across Asia Pacific.
In addition, Savills has hired Ryota Tsutsui as Senior Associate. He joins from CBRE where he was Associate Consultant. He has over 3 years of experience in real estate and has advised on both buy-side and sell-side mandates for domestic and international investors. At Savills, he will work closely with Shun Endo, supporting institutional investors, private equity sponsors and capital partners with real estate and digital infrastructure transactions across the region.
Neil Brookes, Head of Asia Pacific Capital Markets at Savills, said: “We are delighted to welcome Shun and Ryota as we continue to see strong institutional demand for data centre assets across Asia Pacific. Their experience further strengthens our ability to support clients on complex capital deployment and portfolio strategies in a sector that continues to evolve in both scale and sophistication.”
Shun Endo added: “Institutional capital continues to increase its allocation to data centres across Asia Pacific, with Japan emerging as a key market. I look forward to working with clients to deliver capital strategies and execute transactions across an increasingly active and competitive investment landscape as we look to continue to strengthen our team with further hires.”