TGE Adds New York, London, Perth and Kuala Lumpur Hotels as AMTD Consolidates Hospitality Assets
The transaction consolidates hospitality assets across four international markets, but raises questions about valuation, debt allocation and the benefits to outside shareholders.
By Ben Hansel, Senior Financial Editor 247MarketNews
DENVER, Colo. (247MarketNews) — AMTD is reshuffling of assets within its own corporate group. The company has transferred interests in four hotels in New York, London, Perth and Kuala Lumpur into The Generation Essentials Group (NYSE:TGE), assigning them an aggregate value of US$209.8 million.
Completed on November 2 and announced on November 6, the transaction moves the interests from AMTD Digital (NYSE:HKD) into TGE, another company controlled by the AMTD group. In exchange, TGE issued 198,630,381 new Class A shares to AMTD Digital. No cash purchase payment was involved.
The assets comprise 100% of the AMTD IDEA Tribeca Hotel in New York, a 50% interest with veto rights over hotel operations at The Ritz-Carlton, Perth, 100% of Dao by Dorsett Hornsey in London, and an 80% interest in Upper Regalia Kuala Lumpur, according to the companies.
The deal is consistent with AMTD’s earlier strategy of building TGE into a combined media, entertainment and hospitality group.
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