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Sale-Leaseback Financing

What is sale-leaseback financing?

The sale-leaseback is a form of financing in which a company sells its real estate for cash and simultaneously signs a long-term lease with the buyer.

Sale-leasebacks enable companies to realize 100 percent of the true market value of their corporate facilities and re-deploy that capital into their core business.

Consider the following:

Challenge

  • Company seeks financing for recapitalization, refinancing, an acquisition, shareholder distributions or growth:

 Sale Leaseback Financing

Solution

  • 100 percent full market value of real estate paid in cash
  • Long-term operational control of corporate facilities
Sale-Leaseback Advantages
  • Immediate access to capital
  • 100 percent market value realization of otherwise illiquid assets
  • Potential to keep transaction off balance sheet
  • Continued operational control of facilities
  • Increased Return on Assets (ROA)
  • Increased Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
  • Increased borrowing capacity through strengthened balance sheet
Innovative Financing For
  • Debt Reduction
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Leveraged/Management Buyouts
  • Corporate Restructuring/Exit Financing
  • Acquiring additional facilities, technology and equipment to grow the business
  • Constructing new facilities
  • Transition out of a synthetic lease, mortgage, or other binding debt instrument
  • Matching long-term assets with long-term liabilities

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Case Study

The New York Times Company
The W. P. Carey Group provided $225 million of sale-leaseback financing to The New York Times Company through the acquisition of approximately 750,000 rentable square feet of its New York City, Renzo Piano-designed headquarters building.

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