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Blackstone Exercises Call Option With Brookfield JV

NEW YORK CITY-After the joint venture acquired Trizec Properties in 2006 for $9 billion, Blackstone has retired its share of debt on 18 office assets, Brookfield says.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on August 12, 2011

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NEW YORK CITY-After acquiring the US office assets of publicly-traded REIT Trizec Properties in 2006 for $9 billion, Brookfield Office Properties Inc.’s joint venture partner, the Blackstone Group, has exercised its call option on 18 of the office properties it manages in the JV. The deal is in exchange for 100% of its interests in the 38-property portfolio of Brookfield-managed assets, SEC filings show. In exercising the call option, Blackstone retired its share of the joint venture debt and assumed the property-specific debt on its managed assets, according to Brookfield. 

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