Overview
- Savills signed a definitive agreement to buy all equity in Eastdil Secured for an enterprise value of $1.1125 billion, with completion subject to customary regulatory and closing conditions.
- The company will own 100 percent of Eastdil by purchasing stakes held by Guggenheim Investments, Temasek Holdings and Wells Fargo.
- Eastdil will operate within Savills as its Real Estate Investment Bank and keep key headquarters in New York, Santa Monica and London.
- Planned leadership changes include Roy March as executive chairman, Michael Van Konynenburg as CEO and James McCaffrey as president, with Van Konynenburg and McCaffrey joining the Savills Group executive board.
- Savills says the combined platform would rank No. 2 globally for prime transactions above $100 million, while its shares fell 7.59% in pre-market trading ahead of earnings that showed 6% year-over-year Q4 revenue growth.