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21 June 2018
Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited
("Globalworth" or the "Company")
Completion of Acquisition in Poland
Further to its announcement of 9 May 2018, Globalworth is pleased to announce the closing of the acquisition of Quattro Business Park in Krakow by Globalworth Poland ("GPRE")1.
Quattro Business Park is a high-quality office complex of 5 buildings offering a gross leasable area of 60,200 sqm and has annual contracted rental income of c.€10.7 million, with occupancy of c.99% and a weighted average lease length of c.3 years. Tenants include Capgemini, Google and Luxoft.
The transaction has been structured as a corporate acquisition2, with the purchase price based on a consideration of €139 million, before working capital and other customary adjustments, and has been funded from existing cash resources.
For further information visit www.globalworth.com or contact:
Enquiries
Andrew Cox Tel: +44 20 3026 4027
Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Development
Jefferies (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7029 8000
Stuart Klein
Panmure Gordon (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Tel: +44 20 7886 2500
Andrew Potts
Milbourne (Public Relations) Tel: +44 7903 802545
Tim Draper
About Globalworth / Note to Editors:
Globalworth is a listed real estate company active in Central and Eastern Europe, quoted on the AIM-segment of the London Stock Exchange. It has become the pre-eminent office investor in the CEE real estate market through its market leading position in Poland and Romania. Globalworth acquires, develops and directly manages high-quality office and logistics/light-industrial real estate assets in prime locations, through which it benefits from a strong rental income profile from high quality tenants from around the globe. Managed by approximately 110 professionals across Romania and Poland, the combined value of its portfolio is approximately €2.0 billion, of which over 90% is in income-producing assets, predominately in the office sector, and leased to some 440 national and multinational corporates from 28 countries and 37 different sectors. In Romania, Globalworth is present in Bucharest, Timisoara and Pitesti, whilst assets in Poland span Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lodz, Krakow, Gdansk and Katowice. For more information, please refer to http://www.globalworth.com/.
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1 Globalworth has a 68.4% shareholding in Globalworth Poland Real Estate N.V. ("GPRE")
2 The transaction is the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Blackwyn Investments spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością (the "Target") from the seller, SOF-10 Quattro NL B.V. The Target holds the legal title to Quattro Business Park in Krakow.