A History of Record-Setting Value Creation
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A HISTORY OF RECORD-SETTING VALUE CREATION STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP A OUR FIRM Starwood Capital Group is a 26-year-old private investment firm with: n A primary focus on global real estate. n Assets under management of approximately $56 billion. n More than 3,600 employees in 11 offices worldwide, and over 9,000 additional employees involved with multiple portfolio operating companies. The Firm’s disposition program maximizes the value of assets by: n Focusing on fast-growing markets that are well-positioned to attract strong capital flows. n Buying or developing properties that the Firm believes will be highly desirable to investors. n Creating the optimal capital structure with the most advantageous financing terms. n Implementing unique value-add asset management strategies for each investment. n Combining design expertise and knowledge of customer needs to create environments that are special—thus producing real estate that is more valuable than the replacement cost of the individual bricks and mortar, and driving customers to pay more for our assets than for competing product in the market. n Designing the optimal profile for each asset to appeal to the broadest possible universe of investors and most active buyers in a particular market. n Identifying the ideal timing for the sale of an asset within a market. The success of Starwood Capital’s approach is underscored by the 13 record-setting asset sales the Firm has achieved in 11 different cities since 2010. HÔTEL DE CRILLON, PARIS ON THE COVER: BACCARAT HOTEL & RESIDENCES NEW YORK. B STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP 3 OUR APPROACH WALKER TOWER LIVING ROOM Starwood Capital’s opportunistic real estate program is distinguished by the Firm’s continuous ability to develop creative strategies to add value throughout the investment process—enabling the most advantageous exit. This approach begins at the macro level. The investment track record of designing exit strategies that can deliver team continually seeks to get ahead of capital flows maximum asset value. Starwood Capital maintains the in markets where strong economic, employment and flexibility to pursue a number of different exit strategies, population growth is projected to drive tenant demand, including: 1) the sale of an individual asset, 2) the sale while focusing on those markets where new supply of a portfolio, 3) the sale of an operating company or is limited. The Firm has found that capital flows often 4) an initial public offering. influence asset valuations as much as—or more than— local supply and demand trends. In addition, investing Highlighting its ability to pursue a wide variety of in primary and secondary markets with diverse demand innovative exit strategies for its investments—as well drivers and deep buyer pools offers liquidity at various as its efficient access to the capital markets—Starwood points in the economic cycle. Capital has backed multiple IPOs since 2009. Perhaps most notably, the Firm in August 2009 created Next, the investment team’s focus turns to identifying Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD), a publicly and acquiring fundamentally sound properties that traded real estate finance company. With an initial had previously lacked the proper capital, attention or market capitalization of $950 million, Starwood Property effective management. Starwood Capital consistently Trust was, at the time of its IPO, the largest blind pool looks for mismanaged or undercapitalized assets with company ever created and traded on the NYSE—as ACE HOTEL LONDON SHOREDITCH the potential to deliver strong current cash yields, where well as the largest IPO of the year. The company has GUEST ROOM a repositioning, renovation and/or re-tenanting can add grown dramatically since that time, and is now the value. nation’s largest commercial mortgage REIT by market capitalization. Starwood Capital then leverages the unique skill set of the Firm’s asset management team to create a Starwood Capital believes that the current market dynamic asset management plan to stabilize, reposition offers the potential for compelling exit opportunities or redevelop each property. Starwood Capital’s asset for stabilized assets. The team has observed a wave of managers boast an unsurpassed combination of capital capital seeking yield in today’s low-yield world, with markets, design, construction and operational expertise sovereign wealth funds in particular moving aggressively that allows the Firm to enhance operational efficiencies, into real estate investment—and the Firm expects this increase value and ultimately create assets that are to remain a permanent allocation for many funds. As highly attractive to investors. The objective is to produce a result, Starwood Capital believes properties that are real estate that is more valuable than the replacement converted into consistent, cash-flowing, core assets cost of the bricks and mortar, driving customers to can be profitably sold off to those investors who are pay more for our assets than for competing product in increasingly viewing real estate as a bond substitute. the market. The team also seeks to design the optimal profile for each asset to appeal to the broadest possible When pursuing a disposition, the team leverages its universe of investors and most active buyers in a expansive network of relationships with real estate particular market. investors around the world to negotiate optimal sales terms for Starwood Capital’s funds and limited partners. Starwood Capital underwrites most opportunities In the process, the Firm has established new high-water assuming a three-to-five-year hold period, but marks in key asset classes and markets in the sale of continually monitors each investment’s performance, the many of its properties. market’s supply/demand dynamics and investor appetite to identify the optimal exit strategy. The Firm has a long 4 STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP 5 A HISTORY OF RECORD-SETTING VALUE CREATION Starwood Capital’s successful approach has produced a number MARCH 2016 MARCH 2016 Starwood Capital funds sell the Hilton Garden A Starwood of sales that have set new pricing records: Inn Washington, D.C./Georgetown for a record Capital fund sells price per key for a select-service hotel in D.C. One Wells Fargo Center for a record JUNE 2014 price for a North A Starwood Capital fund sells a penthouse unit at Pierhouse at Carolina asset Brooklyn Bridge Park for a record price for a Brooklyn condo DECEMBER 2010 Starwood Capital funds sell the Hôtel de Crillon for a record price for a Paris hotel NOVEMBER 2016 A Starwood Capital fund agrees to sell The Park for a record price for a Czech Republic office transaction. 2016 2014 JANUARY 2014 A Starwood Capital fund sells a penthouse unit at Walker Tower for a record price for 2010 a downtown Manhattan condo JUNE 2014 JUNE 2016 A Starwood Capital fund sells One Union A Starwood Capital fund sells 16 Chestnut Station for a record price for a Denver for a record price per buildable square foot for office building land in Denver MAY 2015 Starwood Capital funds sell the MAY 2017 Baccarat Hotel New York for a A Starwood Capital record price per key for a North fund—for the second American hotel time—sets a record price per square foot for a Denver office 2017 2015 building, with the sale of The Triangle Building MARCH 2015 JULY 2015 NOVEMBER 2015 A Starwood Capital fund sells the Ace Hotel A Starwood Capital fund sells Block 300 for a A Starwood Capital separate account sells the Westin London Shoreditch for a record price for an record price for a Portland office property Bayshore for a record price for a Vancouver hotel East London hotel 6 STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP STARWOOD CAPITAL GROUP 7 RECORD ASSET SALES A REBIRTH FOR A PARIS ICON HÔTEL DE CRILLON On behalf of Starwood Opportunity Fund VII, Starwood Hospitality Fund I and SDL Co-Invest In December 2005, Starwood Capital funds of Paris on the world-famous Place Consistent with its meticulous disposition of completed the $3.2 billion acquisition de la Concorde, the Crillon is steps away the broader SDL portfolio of luxury hotels, of Groupe Taittinger and Société du from the boutiques of the Faubourg Starwood Capital opted to take advantage Louvre (SDL), a family-controlled French St.-Honore, and is within walking distance of investor appetite for a trophy property conglomerate. At acquisition, SDL’s assets of the Champs Elysee, the Avenue such as the Crillon. In December 2010, the included one of Europe’s largest hotel Montaigne, the Louvre, the Tuileries team sold the asset at a price per key that networks—a unique collection of 15 luxury Gardens, among the city’s many acclaimed set a new record for a Paris hotel. hotels, the most famous of which was the attractions. The hotel has served as the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, as well as more setting for a number of exclusive events, This investment displayed many of the than 800 budget hotels under three brands. including the famous “Bal des Debutantes” hallmarks of Starwood Capital—creativity SDL also owned several luxury goods and couture fashion shows. and agility, as well as perseverance. In businesses, including famed champagne the face of the Great Recession that hit producer Taittinger, iconic crystal maker The property features 103 guest rooms and the broader French economy particularly Baccarat and Annick Goutal perfumes. 44 suites—including five luxurious “grand hard, Starwood Capital stayed the course, apartments.” During Starwood Capital’s delivering operating efficiencies and design Commissioned in 1758 by Louis XV, the ownership of the Crillon, the Firm’s in-house enhancements to the property. These Hôtel de Crillon has long been a Paris design team completed a renovation of attributes enabled the Firm to leverage landmark.