Article: United States : FDIC Sells Corus Bank s $4.5 Billion Loan Portfolio to Investment Group.

An investment consortium managed by Starwood Capital Group on Tuesday agreed to acquire a 40% stake in a limited liability company that will hold an estimated $4.5 billion in troubled construction loans and real estate-owned assets the federal government seized last month from Chicago-based Corus Bank.

The LLC is called Northwest Investment, and its investor-partners are Connecticut-based Starwood, TPG Capital Group, Perry Group, and the real estate developer and property management company WLR LeFrak. They are paying $554 million in cash for their equity stake, and borrowing $1.386 billion to finance the rest of their $2.77 billion bid for these assets through ...

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