Subject: International (INTL)

December 17, 2001 LONDON – Standard & Poor's has upgraded European Loan Conduit No. 1 BV because amortization and loan prepayments have improved credit support levels.The rating agency upgraded the deal's Class B to double-A-plus from double-A and the Class ...

December 3, 2001 Prudential Real Estate Investors has appointed Jose Paim De Andrade J?nior as chief executive officer of Prudential-Icatu Gestao de Investimentos Imobilarios SA, PREI's Brazilian real estate advisory joint venture in Rio de Janeiro.Before joining Prudential, Paim was ...

November 20, 2001 Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL) has named Eoin Slavin president and chief executive officer of its operations in Brazil, effective Jan. 1.Slavin replaces Chris Penn, who will serve as chairman of South American operations from his office in ...

November 19, 2001 WIESBADEN – DePfa Bank AG is in talks with Le Meridien to securitize debt on a portfolio of its European hotels.DePfa earlier this year securitized a 1.12 billion euro ($991 million) deal called Hotel Global One.Comments? E-mail ...

November 13, 2001 Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportMorgan Stanley Dean Witter, Royal Bank of Scotland and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney have been hired by British Land Company to raise up to 875 million pounds (US$1.3 billion) through a securitization ...

November 7, 2001 TOKYO – Standard & Poor's has appointed Andrea Bryan director and regional practice leader of its structured finance business in Japan and Korea. Bryan will help S&P to expand its credit analysis products and services for securitized ...

October 22, 2001 TOKYO – Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is preparing a $585.8 million securitization allowing a group of investors led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund to finance its purchase of property from the failed Daihyaku Mutual Life ...

October 17, 2001Marriott International (NYSE:MAR) has opened a new Renaissance hotel in China, according to The Baltimore Business Journal.The Bethesda, Md.-based hotel giant converted the Yangtze New World Hotel to the Renaissance Yangtze Shanghai Hotel, the first Renaissance-branded hotel in ...

Efforts to diversify real estate holdings by international investors could end up helping out Japan, where overbuilding in Tokyo has been a big problem. The real estate tech sector could see growth as well.

October 1, 2001 NEW YORK & TOKYO – Aetos Capital LLC, an independent investment management firm serving institutional and high net worth clients, has hired two real estate veterans in Japan to head its new Japanese acquisition and asset management ...