'Tishman Speyer Properties' is a leading
real estate building and operating company set up in 1978 by two founding partners,
Jerry Speyer and
Robert Tishman.
Tishman Speyer is one of the leading owners, developers, fund managers and operators of real estate in the world, having managed a portfolio of assets since its inception of more than 77 million square feet in major metropolitan across the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Tishman Speyer’s properties includes such well-known icons as New York City’s
Chrysler Building,
Rockefeller Center,
Lipstick Building, the West 43rd Street home of the
New York Times, and
CitySpire Center. Internationally, Tishman owns Frankfurt’s
MesseTurm, Berlin’s
Sony Center and São Paulo’s North Tower. They used to also own London’s
Millbank Tower and are still the property manager of the building.
Since 2005 Tishman has been in three of the biggest real estate deals in United States history:
★ Sale of
666 Fifth Avenue for $1.8 billion the biggest single building deal in the history of the U.S.
[1]
★ Purchase of the
MetLife Building for $1.72 billion which was the previous record.
★ Purchase of
Stuyvesant Town and
Peter Cooper Village for $5.4 billion, consisting of 80 acres of prime Manhattan land that includes 110 buildings and 11,232 apartments. It is the biggest real estate deal up to this time in U.S. history.
Since May 2007 it has been leading the US$15.5 billion takeover of
S&P 500 member
Archstone-Smith Trust (), a developer-owner of residential
apartment buildings and the third largest
REIT in the United States, in alliance with
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. () and with capital from investment banks
Bank of America (),
Strategic Ventures Inc. and
Barclays Capital ().
[2]
Archstone-Smith shareholders would receive a 22.7% premium over the pre-announcement closing price of the stock.
The
European Commission is reviewing the deal under the
European Union's 'simplified' merger review procedure, which applies to mergers and acquisitions that it does not believe pose any competition concerns. The commission has set a deadline of
October 3,
2007 for its inquiry into the deal.
People
★ Chairman -
Robert Tishman
★ Chief Executive Officer|CEO -
Jerry Speyer
★ President - Rob Speyer
★ Senior Managing Director Emerging Markets - Katherine Farley
★ Senior Managing Director Head of New York - Rob Speyer
★ Senior Managing Director Europe - Michael Spies
References
1. Official Tishman description
2. EU inquiry deadline for Tishman Speyer, Lehman Bros buy of Archstone-Smith Oct 3, forbes.com, AFX News Limited, Thomson Financial, Brussels, 09.03.07
External links
★
Official Site
★
Megadeal: Inside a Real Estate Coup A December 31, 2006, New York Times article analysing the purchase of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan.