Charles Blackburn
Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe
Mr. Blackburn, Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe for Oaktree’s Global Opportunities strategy, helps lead the group’s investing activity across all European real estate-related investments and NPLs. Mr. Blackburn joined the firm in 2015 following ten years at Deutsche Bank, both in London and New York. There, he most recently served as a managing director and head of the Commercial Real Estate Special Situations Group for Europe, a business focused on private equity, distressed debt, and principal finance in the real estate sector. Mr. Blackburn began his career in London at O’Connor Capital Partners, a real estate private equity opportunity fund manager and co-general partner, with J.P Morgan Partners, of the Peabody Group of real estate funds. Mr. Blackburn received a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.