ARLINGTON, Va., December 18, 2009-Interstate Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: IHR), a leading hotel real estate investor and the nation's largest independent hotel management company, today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Hotel Acquisition Company, LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Thayer Hotel Investors V-A LP, a private equity fund sponsored by Thayer Lodging Group, and Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels (Group) Company Limited ("Jin Jiang Hotels") in a transaction valued at approximately $307 million. Under the agreement, Hotel Acquisition Company, LLC would acquire all of the outstanding common stock and operating partnership units of Interstate for $2.25 per share in an all cash transaction. The price represents a premium of 77 percent over yesterday's closing stock price. Interstate's lenders have approved the transaction subject to certain pay downs at closing on its senior credit facility and on one of its non-recourse mortgage loans. The transaction is not contingent upon obtaining any additional financing.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Sheraton Orlando Sale Sparks Hope for Uptick in Hotel Transactions
Mixed amid the recent wave of bankruptcies, defaults and foreclosures, there has been a trickle of hotel transactions sparking hope that distressed assets can and will be sold.
On Dec. 8, the W Hotel Union Square in New York was sold at a foreclosure auction, like the Wyndham Orange County in California the week before. Last month the Sheraton Orlando was sold to a joint venture between a private equity firm and an asset manager after first going through bankruptcy court and then a foreclosure auction
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On Dec. 8, the W Hotel Union Square in New York was sold at a foreclosure auction, like the Wyndham Orange County in California the week before. Last month the Sheraton Orlando was sold to a joint venture between a private equity firm and an asset manager after first going through bankruptcy court and then a foreclosure auction
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Darden Restaurants Reports Second Quarter Diluted Net Earnings Per Share of 43 Cents
Second quarter sales from continuing operations were $1.64 billion, compared to $1.67 billion in the prior year, a 1.6% decrease. Blended same-restaurant sales for Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse were down 4.7% this quarter. Excluding the impact of the Thanksgiving holiday week, which was in the fiscal second quarter this year but the fiscal third quarter last year, blended same-restaurant sales were down 3.9%, which compares to an estimated decline of 5.9% for the Knapp-Track(TM) benchmark of U.S. same-restaurant sales, excluding Darden.
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