Article: MuniMae to Buy Lend Lease Unit.(Municipal Mortgage and Equity L.L.C.)(Brief Article)

For several years Municipal Mortgage and Equity LLC has been trying to transform itself from an oddball tax-advantaged investment vehicle to a full-fledged financial services company focused on apartment developers.

The Baltimore company, known as MuniMae, took a big step toward that goal last week, when it announced it had agreed to buy the U.S. low-income housing tax credit syndication business of the Australian property conglomerate Lend Lease Corp. for $102 million.

The deal, expected to close in the third quarter, would make MuniMae "the dominant player" in the tax credit syndication business, boosting its market share, now between 2% and 3%, to ...

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