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Arcapita buys European company
Arcapita, a Bahrain- based investment bank, announced yesterday that it and its affiliates have completed the acquisition of Pinnacle Real Estate, a leading developer and operator of logistics warehouses in Central and Eastern Europe.
- Staff Report
- Published: 00:36 May 7, 2008
Manama: Arcapita, a Bahrain- based investment bank, announced yesterday that it and its affiliates have completed the acquisition of Pinnacle Real Estate, a leading developer and operator of logistics warehouses in Central and Eastern Europe.
The transaction includes an existing portfolio of leased warehouses of approximately 230,000 square metres, as well as a land bank of nearly 1.5 million square metres for future development. The majority shareholder prior to the acquisition was Merrill Lynch through its Global Principal Investments group.
Pinnacle was founded seven years ago, and the company has successfully grown into one of the leading developers in logistics in its markets of Central and Eastern Europe.
Logistics
Pinnacle has offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, and is well placed to benefit from the positive economic development and the build out of distribution networks in Central and Eastern Europe. "With its growing footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, we are pleased to have added Pinnacle to our European real estate portfolio. Pinnacle has quickly built up an attractive mix of yielding and developmental assets to become a dominant developer in what we believe are high growth markets with excellent appetite for modern and well situated warehousing and distribution facilities," said Atif A. Abdul Malek, Arcapita's chief executive officer.
Arcapita's acquisition of Pinnacle solidifies its position as a major investor in industrial real estate in Europe, and the transaction joins the recent joint venture agreement with Prologis to form Prologis Middle East, which will develop and manage up to $1 billion of modern logistics warehouses in Saudi Arabia and the rest of GCC, estimated to total over one million square metres.
Arcapita has previously partnered with Prologis in the United States, where it invested in 79 fully leased assets across the country.
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