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Dan Fasulo on Last Week's Poll Question

'This is the type of deal large equity funds love to sink their teeth into.'

By Paul Bubny | Updated on August 22, 2008

WILL LEHMAN’S $40 BN PORTFOLIO FIND A BUYER?

Close on the heels of Merrill Lynch’s July sale of $31 billion in CDOs, Lehman Brothers has put a $40 billion real estate and mortgage portfolio on the market where, according to a majority of this week’s poll respondents, it can expect to remain for some time. A huge majority of 68% were of the opinion that the portfolio will languish on the market, while only 32% say it will quickly find a buyer. Dan Fasulo, managing director of Real Capital Analytics, thinks this deal could be attractive to certain buyers. Here are his thoughts:

“From the macro level, this is the type of deal that the large equity funds love to sink their teeth into. The trick in this case will be trying to figure out how to finance a deal this large in this type of environment. But some of these equity funds, like Blackstone and Carlyle, have raised tens of billions of dollars in capital, and they like to put that capital out all at once in just a few transactions as opposed to going deal by deal. It’s more efficient, because you spend the same amount of time analyzing a large deal as you would a small deal. In this type of situation, where there’s an element of distress, if this works out right, there’s a chance to make a significant amount of money.

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