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New York-based real estate capital markets solutions firm Mission Capital Advisors has announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has retained the firm's Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group as the loan sale advisor on a diverse portfolio of loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $57.6 million.
Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group has successfully arranged the sale of a loan portfolio with $199.8 million in unpaid balances and a book value of $150.1 million.
Media Contact: Shlomo Morgulis smorgulis@beckermanpr.com
Mission Capital Arranges $199.8-Million Sale of Loan Portfolio for First
Bancorp
Transaction Allows First Bancorp to Clear Risk From Balance Sheet
NEW YORK (June 23, 2015) — Mission Capital Advisors, a leading national real estate capital markets solutions firm, today announced that its Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group has successfully arranged the sale of a loan portfolio with $199.8 million in unpaid balances and a book value of $150.1 million.
Mission Capital Managing Director Stephen Emery arranged for the purchase of the portfolio for
$87.6 million from First BanCorp, the bank holding company of FirstBank Puerto Rico. The transaction will de-risk the bank's balance sheet, as it divests from loans that are primarily REO and non-performing and classified commercial loans.
"As Puerto Rico looks toward a revival, many of the island's financial institutions are interested in eliminating risk from their balance sheets," said Emery. "Despite the failure of Doral Bank during the transaction, the robust demand that we saw when marketing this portfolio demonstrates the significant interest that investors have in Puerto Rican assets, including non-performing and REO assets. The buyer is a newer entrant to the Puerto Rican market for an acquisition of this type, and, with a limited amount of product, they were quite eager to invest in this portfolio."
With this transaction, Mission Capital Advisors continues to solidify its leading position in Puerto Rican loan sales. The capital markets solutions firm has now arranged three separate all-cash portfolio transactions of both commercial and residential loans, which totaled more than $800 million of unpaid principal balance or appraised value.
Mission was involved with all aspects of the transaction, including valuation and analysis, generating a robust data tape and asset summaries, establishing and maintaining the due diligence data room, conducting multiple bid rounds and assisting First Bancorp with the settlement.
"With our wide range of industry relationships, we received many bids from investors looking to extract value from the loans," said Emery. "Ultimately, we finalized terms with a buyer that recognized the value of the offering and was able to offer First Bank a strong price and a quick close."
Founded in 2002, Mission Capital Advisors, LLC is a leading national, diversified real estate capital markets solutions firm with offices in New York City, Florida, Texas, California, Michigan and Mobile, Al. The firm delivers value to its clients through an integrated platform of advisory and transaction management services across commercial and residential loan sales; debt, mezzanine and JV equity placement; and loan portfolio valuation. Since its inception, Mission Capital has advised a variety of leading financial institutions and real estate investors on more
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Mission Capital Advisors, a leading national real estate capital markets solutions firm, today announced that its Commercial Loan Sales & Trading Group has been named the exclusive loan sale advisor for a performing commercial mortgage portfolio.
Media Contact: Amanda Ferraro Beckerman
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Mission Capital Advisors Tapped to Sell Performing Commercial Mortgage Loan Portfolio on Behalf of Reseller
Firm Has Brokered Nearly $900M of Reseller Loan/REO Portfolio Sales
NEW YORK (July 21, 2015) — Mission Capital Advisors, a leading national real estate capital markets solutions firm, today announced that its Commercial Loan Sales & Trading Group has been named the exclusive loan sale advisor for a performing commercial mortgage portfolio.
With this latest transaction, Mission Capital adds to its robust pipeline of loan sales activity for resellers, investment groups that have previously acquired loans from third parties and are now sellers after some period of workout and general market price appreciation. The firm has served as an advisor on nearly
$900 million of loan and real estate owned (REO) portfolios on behalf of 15 separate reseller clients across 20 different transactions.
Mission Capital's Managing Director of Sales and Trading, Tom Hall, is overseeing the assignment on behalf of the repeat seller, a private equity real estate firm.
"PE shops that acquired in bulk at the beginning of the downturn have been big market participants on the sell side, both this year and last," said Hall. "We are fortunate at Mission to be one of the most active advisors to resellers in the secondary market. It is always gratifying when a buyer that has experienced several processes and acquired from various advisors chooses to run their own sale on your platform. Repeat business from this sector is a testament to our ability to successfully navigate the special circumstances associated with reseller portfolios."
The offering's collateral includes commercial, residential, land and C&I assets located across the country, with the largest concentrations in Texas and Florida. The portfolio has an attractive 5.6 percent WAC and
2021 WAM.
This segment of the market shows no signs of slowing down, with another $1 billion of debt sales expected from resellers alone in the second half of 2015.
The combination of strengthening property fundamentals and increased demand for assets has resulted in ideal circumstances for bulk disposition of portfolios previously acquired through the secondary market. Investor groups including debt funds, private equity funds, and other traditional "buy-side" market participants are increasingly taking advantage of rising loan prices combined with servicing efforts to modify or foreclose assets, allowing groups to successfully exit positions and return capital to investors.
Founded in 2002, Mission Capital Advisors, LLC is a leading national, diversified real estate capital markets solutions firm with offices in New York City, Florida, Texas, California, Michigan and Mobile, Al. The firm delivers value to its clients through an integrated platform of advisory and transaction
management services across commercial and residential loan sales; debt, mezzanine and JV equity placement; and loan portfolio valuation. Since its inception, Mission Capital has advised a variety of leading financial institutions and real estate investors on more than $45 billion of loan sale and financing transactions, as well as in excess of $14 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transactions, positioning the firm strongly to provide unmatched loan portfolio valuation services for both commercial and residential assets. Mission Capital's seasoned team of industry-leading professionals is committed to achieving clients' business objectives while maintaining the highest levels of integrity and trust. For more information, visit www.missioncap.com.
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Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Commercial Loan Sales & Trading Group has been named the exclusive loan sale advisor for a performing commercial mortgage portfolio.
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Investors were lining up to squeeze dollars from a loan portfolio offloaded by Puerto Rican banking company First BanCorp as it works to eliminate risk from its balance sheets. Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group arranged the sale of the loan portfolio with $199.8 million in unpaid balances and a book value of $150.1 million.
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Investors were lining up to squeeze dollars from a loan portfolio offloaded by Puerto Rican banking company First BanCorp as it works to eliminate risk from its balance sheets.
Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group arranged the sale of the loan portfolio with $199.8 million in unpaid balances and a book value of $150.1 million.
Managing director Stephen Emery arranged for the purchase of the portfolio for $87.6 million from First BanCorp.
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"As Puerto Rico looks toward a revival, many of the island's financial institutions are interested in eliminating risk from their balance sheets," said Emery.
"Despite the failure of Doral Bank during the transaction, the robust demand that we saw when marketing this portfolio demonstrates the significant interest that investors have in Puerto Rican assets, including non- performing and REO assets.
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"The buyer is a newer entrant to the Puerto Rican market for an acquisition of this type, and, with a limited amount of product, they were quite eager to invest in this portfolio."
Mission Capital Advisors capital markets solutions group has now arranged three separate all-cash portfolio transactions of both commercial and residential loans in Puerto Rico, which totaled more than $800 million of unpaid principal balance or appraised value.
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Mission Capital Advisors announced that its Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group has been retained by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as the loan sale advisor for a diverse portfolio of 122 real estate and business loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $57.6 million.
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Mission Capital offers $57.6mm Loan Portfolio on Behalf of FDIC
Diverse Set of Loans Divided into Nine Separate Pools
NEW YORK (July 27, 2015) — Mission Capital Advisors, a leading national real estate capital markets solutions firm, announced that its Commercial Loan Sales and Trading Group has been retained by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as the loan sale advisor for a diverse portfolio of 122 real estate and business loans with an aggregate unpaid principal balance of $57.6 million. The portfolio is being offered in nine separate pools.
Loan types include residential real estate, commercial real estate, ADC, and C&I. The portfolio is collateralized by assets located across the country, with a significant portion of the collateral concentrated in the Chicago area. Loan performance is mixed with a combination of performing, sub-‐ performing, and non-‐performing assets offered from 17 different failed banks.
The Mission Capital team of Michael Britvan, Kyle Kaminski, and Balin Michael is handling the
transaction on behalf of the FDIC.
"The portfolio features a wide range of assets, with the nine pools determined based on collateral location and type and loan performance," Britvan said. "This is one of the larger FDIC cash sale portfolios we have seen of late, and we anticipate a great deal of interest from investors targeting both seasoned performing and distressed debt."
Since its inception, Mission Capital has maintained a leading role as one of the industry's most active and respected loan sale advisors. Leveraging emerging technologies and enterprise software solutions, the firm has set the industry standard for the execution of loan sales transactions.
Founded in 2002, Mission Capital Advisors, LLC is a leading national, diversified real estate capital markets solutions firm with offices in New York City, Florida, Texas, California, Michigan and Mobile, Al. The firm delivers value to its clients through an integrated platform of advisory and transaction management services across commercial and residential loan sales; debt, mezzanine and JV equity placement; and loan portfolio valuation. Since its inception, Mission Capital has advised a variety of leading financial institutions and real estate investors on more than $45 billion of loan sale and financing transactions, as well as in excess of $14 billion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac transactions, positioning the firm strongly to provide unmatched loan portfolio valuation services for both commercial and residential assets. Mission Capital's seasoned team of industry-‐leading professionals is committed to achieving clients' business objectives while maintaining the highest levels of integrity and trust. For
more information, visit www.missioncap.com.
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The Seligman Group has received $309 million to refinance 23 of its assets throughout California. Financing was secured by Mission Capital.
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Seligman Croup has received S300 million to refinance 23 of its assets throughout California. The portfolio includes more than 1.9 million squar feet and 800 apartments.
These assets make up the bulk of the San Francisco–based firm's California holdings. It includes 12 commercial properties in Orange County and San Francisco, as well as 11 multifamily communities in Los Angeles.
Financing was secured by Jordan Ray, Ari Hirt, Gregg Applefield, Ste ven Buchwald, Jamie Matheny and Eugene Shevaldin of Mission Caclital Adyisors. The portfolio receive 23 separate loans.
The refinance allowed the Seligman Group to replace i ts existing loans, taking advantage of favorable market conditions as the finn took additional cash out.


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Fosun Fashion Group (FFG), the global luxury fashion group based in China, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Italian luxury footwear brand Sergio Rossi from Absolute Luxury Holding. The acquisition will add to FFG's luxury brand portfolio, which currently includes Lanvin, Wolford, Caruso and St. John Knits. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approval and is expected to close in Summer 2021.
Sergio Rossi, founded in 1951 in the San Mauro Pascoli shoemaking district in Italy, was previously owned by the Gucci Group (now Kering), then by Investindustrial in 2015. Today, Sergio Rossi has a worldwide distribution network of 64 stores, of which 45 are directly owned flagship stores in prime luxury locations across EMEA, Japan and Greater China with the remaining stores franchised.
This acquisition not only completes a strategic brand ecosystem for FFG, but also creates potential collaboration between brands through Sergio Rossi's fully owned and state-of-the-art factory.
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Hong Kong harbour area treatment
Year:2001: stage 1, 2015: stage 2
Duration:Stage 1: 7 years, Stage 2: 6 years
Cost:HK$25.8bn (about £2.5bn)
Country: Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
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A view of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour get rid of the sewerage, bad smells and disease
The harbour area treatment scheme (HATS) is a major sewage treatment project designed to clean up Victoria harbour in Hong Kong.
HATS serves up to 5 million people living near the harbour and run by the city-state's drainage services department.
The scheme aims to treat sewage before it's discharged into Victoria harbour – improving the quality of water for residents as well as marine wildlife.
Stage 1 of HATS was completed in 2001. It saw the construction of a 23.6km tunnel to transfer sewage from Kowloon – the most densely-populated area of Hong Kong – to a treatment works at nearby Stonecutters' Island.
This first stage of the project treats about 75% of sewage pumped into the harbour.
Stage 2 of the scheme – dealing with waste from the northern and south-western parts of Hong Kong - was completed in 2015. The project included an upgrade of the Stonecutters' Island treatment works.
The improvements HATS has made to water quality in the harbour has led to the reinstatement of Hong Kong's annual cross-harbour swimming race.
The sporting event had been banned for 33 years amid fears swimmers could pick up diseases from polluted waters.
Harbour Area Treatment Scheme
The Harbour Area Treatment Scheme (HATS) is a major sewage treatment project designed to clean up Victoria harbour in Hong Kong. It serves up to 5 million people living near the harbour and is run by the city-state's drainage services department.
Difference the sewerage treatment has made
The HATS scheme has improved the quality of the water in Victoria harbour. It's made both the harbour and Hong Kong's beaches safe for swimming.
The harbour and nearby areas have been redeveloped as part of the scheme – creating a more pleasant environment for Hong Kong locals and increasing tourist income for the area.
The Victoria harbour front has stopped smelling of sewage.
How the work was done
The 2 stages of the HATS scheme involved the construction of 44km of deep level sewage tunnels and the expansion and upgrade of the Stonecutters' Island sewage treatment works.
Stage 1 of the scheme started in 1994 and saw engineers construct 23.6km of segmental lined tunnels 130m below sea level.
The new tunnels were designed to carry sewage from Kowloon to the treatment plant on Stonecutters' Island – set to be upgraded in stage 2 of the works. Waste had previously been pumped directly into the harbour.
The project team also upgraded 7 existing preliminary treatment facilities on the island as part of stage 1.
Overhauling the Stonecutters' Island treatment works was a large part of stage 2 of the scheme.
The HATS project team constructed a new underground pumping station for the Stonecutters' Island plant. Engineers also built new disinfection facilities and installed a state-of-the-art computer system for the scheme.
The upgrade to the treatment works aimed to increase the daily capacity of the plant from 1.6m metres³ a day to 2.8m³ a day.
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A quiet revolution is taking place in Victoria Harbour as nature starts to reclaim the waters.
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South China Morning Post, November 2015
HATS has reduced the amount of E coli in water near Stonecutters' Island by 99%. Other pollutants in the harbour have dropped by around 75%.
E coli bacteria can cause diarrhoea, respiratory problems and pneumonia - among other illnesses.
Cleaner waters in Victoria harbour have led to the return of coral to the bay. Most types of coral can't survive in polluted water.
People who made it happen
Client: Drainage services department, Hong Kong
Consulting engineers: Ove Arup and Partners (Hong Kong)
Construction engineers: Gammon Construction Ltd, Leighton LNS Joint Venture
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I have been working on a plan to make the production of the kits at a bigger and more sustainable scale so that more families can enjoy this as a family holiday tradition.
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Articles should be typed in 1.5 line spacing with the following font pattern Font type: Times new roman Size: For main heading or title: 14 points and Bold For subtitles: 12 points and Bold Content of article: 12 points.
Submission Order:
The following order should be strictly followed while submitting the article:
Front page:-
Title of article
Author Details including:-
Full name of each author
Affiliation of each author, at time research was completed.
Where more than one author has contributed to the article, details of who should be contacted for correspondence.
E-mail address of the corresponding author.
From second page:-
Start with abstract of about 200-300 words exactly conveying the content of the article.
Keywords (at least 5 words).
Main content text with all tables and figures aligned in their location (do not send tables and figures separately unless requested), list of symbols and abbreviations, acknowledgement, references (follow standard format).
Authors should note that the main body of the text should be prepared in such a way that no formatting is needed afterwards. Heading, sub headings and illustrations should be well incorporated within the main body of the article.
Do not capitalise the titles unnecessarily unless required
Ex: ABSTRACT can be capitalised but instead of giving as INTRODUCTION give it as Introduction without capitalising
Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchy of headings.
The preferred format is for first level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics.
The author is responsible for ensuring that items appearing in the References are cross-checked with the text citation for publication dates and spelling. Any item which is inconsistent will be deleted from both the text and the References.
All references must be arranged first alphabetically and then it may be further sorted chronologically also.
If the reference is provided from the same Author (s) in the same year it must be identified by the letter "a", "b", "c", etc. which is placed after the publication year. Ex. (2000,"a")
You should cite publications in the text: (Adams, 2006) using the first named author's name or (Adams and Brown, 2006) citing both names of two, or (Adams et al., 2006), when there are three or more authors.
Manuscript Submission guidelinesAuthors Guidelines:
For books:
Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication.
E.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
For book chapters:
Surname, Initials (year), "Chapter title", Editor's Surname, Initials, Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
E.g. Calabrese, F.A. (2005), "The early pathways: theory to practice – continuum", in Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp. 15-20.
For journals:
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", Journal Name, volume, number, pages.
E.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), "Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century", Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 72-80.
For published conference proceedings:
Surname, Initials (year of publication), "Title of paper", in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.
E.g. Jakkilinki, R., Georgievski, M. and Shards, N. (2007), "Connecting destinations with an ontology-based e-tourism planner", in Information and communication technologies in tourism 2007 proceedings of the international conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, pp. 12-32.
For working papers:
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date.
E.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March.
For encyclopedia entries (with no author or editor):
Title of Encyclopedia (year) "Title of entry", volume, edition, Title of Encyclopedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
E.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926) "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp. 765-71.
(For authored entries please refer to book chapter guidelines above.)
For newspaper articles (authored):
Surname, Initials (year), "Article title", Newspaper, date,pages.
E.g.Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope", Daily News, 21 January, pp. 1, 3-4.
For newspaper articles (non-authored):
Newspaper (year), "Article title", date, pages.
E.g.Daily News (2008), "Small change", 2 February, p. 7.
For electronic sources or web pages:
If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.
E.g. Castle, B. (2005), "Introduction to web services for remote portlets", available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsrp/ (accessed 12 November 2007).
Reference Citation
If the reference is of a Single author: the author's name (without initials) and the year of publication: Two authors: Both authors name and also the year of publication of the article. Three or more than three authors : First author's name followed by "et al.". Example: Baskaran, 1998: Crish Rabia and John Pedikri, 2008: Podilinski et al., 2004.
Citing web reference can be like the journal article reference.
Images and Tables
Images should be supplied without being inserted in tables, borders or any other format, they can be copy pasted in the required space. It will be better if the images are given in the last page, the quality of the image and the size should be proper. Tables should be given using tables options, do not draw tables using lines, the table width should be properly given, Also do not insert any tables as image format, it should be editable. The title of the table should be bolded and should not contain any text box. Supplied images should be of required quality authors are advised not to submit inferior quality images.
All tables should be numbered in order, the word Table may be bolded. The table number should be properly given, large size tables should be split into two or more tables so that it can be accommodated within the page size. Table width and cell sizing should be even and all the content should be centered. Number of the tables should be given over the tables and without any border, shading.
Ex: Table 1: Table showing the number of villages covered under this study.
All figure number should be arranged orderly; the figures should not be supplied separately but pasted in the proper place. Figure number and title should be given below the figure, the content of the figure should be explained in the title of figure. All images supplied should have enough resolution, inferior images will be removed. Do not give the figures and tables in the last page, provide them wherever necessary in the article. Provide the figure name and number below the figure and also do not form the images in two columns.
Ex: Figure 1: Image showing the map of the study area.
All equations should be numbered in order from starting and the notations used in the various equations should be given after abstract. Authors are insisted to follow standard notations and SI units system even though it's not mandatory.
Author should be careful regarding grammatical and typographical errors.
Each paper is reviewed by the Editor and, if it is judged suitable for this publication, it is then sent to two referees for double blind peer review. If their decision varies the article will be sent to a third reviewer and the editor's decision is final. Based on their recommendations, the Editor then decides whether the paper should be accepted as is, revised or rejected.
Paper Acceptance
Final decision on acceptance of the paper is with the editorial team, promotion in any form will disqualify even qualified papers. Selected papers will be put in queue for publication, once the article is published author will get a confirmation mail from the corresponding editor In no case articles having more than 4 authors will be considered unless justification is provided for the work done by the concerned authors in the research done. Review articles are permitted only with 2 authors, if more than 2 authors had completed a review work which is submitted for publication they are requested to submit a detailed report about the contribution of each authors in the review work.
Publishing Method
All the journals are published online and the journal copies in print are also issued on Authors' requests. Authors are free to download their papers at any time, no reprints or any other format of accepted article will be provided. Initially provisional pdf will be uploaded in the journal pages, which will be converted as full paper upon receipt of membership and copyright forms duly filled and signed.
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Strange! No one has posted the announcement of all 4 Fred Olsen cruise ships meeting in Bergen on July 28, 2015?
Former Fred Olsen ship I presume?
A few Braemar photos from Harwich last Saturday.
She was just back from an 'Elvis at 80' cruise - just imagine the fun they must have had with that: 'This is your Captain speaking - uh huh'. 'Please release me - forward and aft lines'.
By then Elvis must have left the building (err, ship) - but, surely not, what's that - right at the front?
It is - it's Vegas Elvis - on his way out via an unusual route!
A nice collection of photographs of a well maintained ship it appears. Thumbs up!