Smedley joins from Schroder Real Estate Investment Management. : The real estate fund manager said Smedley, who will be based in London, joins from Schroder Real Estate Investment Management (REIM), where he headed Continental Europe. As head of Heitman’s European Private Equity group, Smedley will be responsible for broadening the scope of the firm’s European operations. Heitman said as part of the transition in the group’s leadership, Gordon Black, who has led Heitman’s private equity investment activities in Europe for the past 17 years, will be focused on certain client private equity portfolios with European and global investment mandates.