Altus Group Terminates Proposed Acquisition of Situs Group’s Commercial Real Estate Valuation Services Business
17 Maggio 2024 - 11:00PM
Altus Group Limited (“Altus Group” or the “Company”) (TSX: AIF), a
leading provider of asset and fund intelligence for commercial real
estate (“CRE”), announced today that it has delivered a termination
notice with respect to its previously announced acquisition of
Situs Group LLC’s (“Situs”) commercial real estate valuation and
advisory services (“REVS”) business. Despite extensive engagement
with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) over the past six
months, Altus Group believes that the transaction was unlikely to
receive regulatory approval in a timely manner. In connection with
the termination of this transaction, Altus Group will pay a US$3
million termination fee to Situs.
“We are disappointed that we cannot move forward
with a deal we believe would benefit all stakeholders and
contribute towards our efforts to bring greater consistency and
transparency of valuations across the CRE industry,” said Jim
Hannon, Chief Executive Officer. “This opportunity would have led
to improved compliance reporting of valuations and provided our
clients and their investors with deeper insights on the performance
of their CRE assets. Moving forward, Altus Group is strongly
positioned to execute on our organic strategy to deliver
best-in-class valuation intelligence to our clients.”
Altus Group’s Valuation Management Solutions
(“VMS”) business boasts an impressive organic growth track record
and Altus Group believes it is well positioned to take advantage of
its large addressable market opportunity. While the REVS
transaction offered exciting opportunities for all stakeholders,
Altus Group can deliver on its organic strategy to expand client
value through superior asset and fund-level intelligence and new
innovative analytics offerings that help clients manage the
performance and risk of their real estate assets. The Company’s
2024 technology roadmap includes new analytics capabilities
launching this year, including enhancing Altus Group’s portfolio
performance and valuation offers with powerful new analytics tools.
The Company will continue investing in its VMS business to further
enhance its financial profile.
About Altus Group
Altus Group is a leading provider of asset and
fund intelligence for commercial real estate. We deliver
intelligence as a service to our global client base through a
connected platform of industry-leading technology, advanced
analytics, and advisory services. Trusted by the largest CRE
leaders, our capabilities help commercial real estate investors,
developers, proprietors, lenders, and advisors manage risks and
improve performance returns throughout the asset and fund
lifecycle. Altus Group is a global company headquartered in Toronto
with approximately 3,000 employees across North America, EMEA and
Asia Pacific. For more information about Altus (TSX: AIF) please
visit www.altusgroup.com.
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opportunities in Analytics will result in associated definitive
agreements; the size of the addressable market opportunity for VMS,
continued adoption of cloud subscriptions by the Company’s
customers; retention of material clients and bookings; sustaining
the Company’s software and subscription renewals; successful
execution of the Company’s business strategies; consistent and
stable economic conditions or conditions in the financial markets
including stable interest rates and credit availability for
commercial real estate; consistent and stable legislation in the
various countries in which we operate; consistent and stable
foreign exchange conditions; no disruptive changes in the
technology environment; and the absence of negative financial and
other impacts resulting from strategic investments or acquisitions
on short term results; successful integration of acquired
businesses; and continued availability of qualified
professionals.
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limited to those described in the Company’s annual publicly filed
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expectations and beliefs regarding future events and operating
performance and is based on information currently available to
management. Although The Company has attempted to identify
important factors that could cause actual results to differ
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE
CONTACT:
Camilla BartosiewiczChief Communications
Officer, Altus Group(416)
641-9773camilla.bartosiewicz@altusgroup.com
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