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EX-4.2 - EXHIBIT 4.2 - GRUBB & ELLIS CO | c15672exv4w2.htm |
EX-10.2 - EXHIBIT 10.2 - GRUBB & ELLIS CO | c15672exv10w2.htm |
EX-10.1 - EXHIBIT 10.1 - GRUBB & ELLIS CO | c15672exv10w1.htm |
Exhibit 99.1
Grubb & Ellis Company Closes Credit Facility with Colony Capital
SANTA ANA, Calif., April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading
real estate services and investment firm, today announced that it closed the $18 million credit
facility with Colony Capital that the company previously announced on March 30, 2011. The company
has drawn the initial $9 million tranche under the facility, and anticipates that the second $9
million tranche will fund subsequent to May 15, 2011.
In conjunction with this financing, which was provided by a lending affiliate of Colony Capital,
Colony was granted an exclusive 60-day period, which commenced on March 30, 2011, to evaluate a
potential larger strategic transaction with Grubb & Ellis. Should the company and Colony enter
into a definitive agreement for a strategic transaction, the company retains the right to solicit
competing strategic transactions for a period of 25 business days thereafter.
Colony Capital, LLC, is a private, international investment firm focusing primarily on debt and
equity investments in real estate-related assets and operating companies.
JMP Securities served as financial advisor to Grubb & Ellis in connection with the financing.
About Grubb & Ellis Company
Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is one of the largest and most respected commercial real estate
services and investment companies in the world. Our 5,200 professionals in more than 100
company-owned and affiliate offices draw from a unique platform of real estate services, practice
groups and investment products to deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions to real estate
owners, tenants and investors. The firms transaction, management, consulting and investment
services are supported by highly regarded proprietary market research and extensive local
expertise. Through its investment management business, the company is a leading sponsor of real
estate investment programs. For more information, visit www.grubb-ellis.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. These
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the
companys actual results and events in future periods to be materially different from those
anticipated, including risks and uncertainties related to the financial markets. Such factors which
could adversely affect the companys ability to obtain these results include, among other things:
(i) a continued or further weakness in the companys Investment Management business, including the
velocity and volume of equity raised; (ii) the general economic pressures on transaction values of
sales and leasing transactions and businesses in general; (iii) a prolonged and pronounced
recession in real estate markets and values; (iv) the unavailability of credit to finance real
estate transactions in general and the companys tenant-in-common programs, in particular; (v) the
success of current and new investment programs; (vi) the success of new initiatives and
investments; (vii) the inability to attain expected levels of revenue, performance,
brand equity in general, and in the current macroeconomic and credit environment, in particular;
(viii) the inability of the companys subsidiary, NNN Realty Advisors, Inc. to come into compliance
with the contractually specified net worth requirements with respect to approximately 30 percent of
the tenant-in-common programs managed by the company; (ix) the nature and amount of the net
intercompany balance between the company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Daymark Realty Advisors,
Inc., (x) the occurrence of bankruptcies by unaffiliated, individual investor entities in the
companys tenant-in-common programs which may result in demands for payments on certain
non-recourse/carve-out guaranty and indemnification obligations issued by the companys
subsidiaries, which may, in turn, in the event such guaranty or indemnification obligations cannot
be met, result in a cross-default under the companys issued and outstanding Convertible Senior
Notes; (xi) the ultimate outcome in various legal proceedings concerning tenant-in-common programs
sponsored by the companys subsidiaries, including the arbitration proceeding with respect to the
Met 10 Center in Texas; (xii) the funding of the balance of the $18 million loan financing from
Colony Capital; and (xiii) other factors described in the companys annual report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010, and in other Current Reports on Form 8-K filed by the
company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company does not
undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements.