The world's leading real estate investment management company Mercury Partners LLC (Mercury) recently declared to appoint Lawrence D Sperling as director of its Asia Private Equity. Before joining Mercury, Sperling has been in Credit Suisse Group for 14 years. He took control of more than US$7.5B real estate-related capital investment, loans and securitized investment of the group in Asia-Pacific region and was responsible for more than US$15B capital investment, loans and securitized investment.

Malcolm F. MacLean IV, President of Mercury Partners, said that the experiences accumulated by Larry in Asian market has immeasurable role for upgrading Mercury's ability in accomplishing its Asian transactions. Mercury owns over US$2.2B assets in the world including about US$900M real estates in Asia. The global research team of the company keeps an keen concern on investment opportunities in commercial property and residential sectors and the main business is in the US and Asia.