Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Big distressed deals getting done

The WSJ highlights several distressed deals going to institutional buyers...

In the case of the Drake site, the partnership has signed a deal to pay off about 10 creditors that hold the $510 million loan the developer took out primarily to acquire the site. The creditors are getting paid as much as 90 cents on the dollar and as little as zero, the people with the knowledge of the matter said.

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Meantime, Blackstone is aiming to control the restructuring Highland by buying a chunk of so-called mezzanine debt with a face value of about $320 million from Wachovia Corp. That piece of debt, in a key position between the equity and the first mortgage debt backed by the hotels, gives Blackstone a significant say in how any restructuring unfolds, people familiar with the matter said.


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Currently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has about $30 billion in real-estate debt that had been held by the scores of banks that have failed since the economic downturn, according to the agency. CMBS servicers also are emerging as sellers because, unlike banks, they have limited flexibility to extend or restructure troubled loans. Carlton Group, a loan-sale adviser in New York, is currently marketing $307 million CMBS loans in one of the largest sales by a nongovernmental agency.

2 comments:

crabsofsteel said...

Loooks like the Palisades Center in Nyack NY is going to be in need of a big distressed deal. $550MM at Libor_+ 0.95 is a little hard to find these days.

Concrete Jungle said...

Wonder whose balance sheet it's sitting on?