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Brookfield raises $147 mn from Korea for US office portfolio: report

Mar 12, 2019 (Gmt+09:00)

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Brookfield Asset Management Inc. has secured $147.2 million in a mezzanine tranche from South Korea’s Kiwoom Asset Management Co. Ltd. on a US office portfolio it acquired last year, according to a local media report.


The mezzanine note is part of the $550 million financing Brookfield raised to buy seven office buildings in four eastern US states for $775.1 million, the Seoul Economic Daily said last week.


Brookfield has pumped its own capital of $225.1 million to fund the transaction.


Kiwoom resold the mezzanine tranche to Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. and other domestic institutional investors via a private vehicle which targets annual returns of around 7%.


The offices in the portfolio are leased to investment-grade tenants, including Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania and government institutions, the report added.


In 2016, Brookfield raised 1.6 trillion won ($1.4 billion) in senior loans from South Korean lenders to buy the International Finance Center complex in central Seoul for 2.5 trillion won from AIG Group.


Last year Kiwoom, a small-sized asset manager, provided a 35 million-pound ($45 million) senior loan on a portfolio of 110 care homes of Britain’s largest care home operator HC-One, in the first investment in a foreign senior care facility by a domestic institution.

Kiwoom manages 39 trillion won in assets.




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#Brookfield Asset Management #Meritz Securities #mezzanine #Kiwoom Asset Management

Yeonhee Kim edited this article

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