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«Nexity-Reim and Natixis Capital Partners are furthering their partnership with the creation of CAPNEXI, the first property investment fund dedicated to sale and partial leaseback transactions.
These transactions concern private and public companies seeking to rationalise their property holdings by the sale and partial leaseback of buildings under freehold. CAPNEXI OPCI is a variable-capital property investment fund with simplified investment rules (SPPICAV RFA) managed by Ciloger. It is 60% owned by Captiva Capital Partners III, a fund managed by Natixis Capital Partners, while Nexity holds the remaining 40 %. CAPNEXI OPCI has acquired a group of three office buildings with floor space of around 17,000 sq. m in Puteaux La Défense, from the chemicals and pharmaceutical company Bayer. Bayer will lease two of the buildings, representing 40% of the total surface area. Thethird building, which is located on the banks of the Seine, will be extensively renovated and then leased. This initial investment amounts to around :105 million. The buying team were advised by Cabinet Gide Loirette Nouel, Etude Wargny Katz and Cabinet Arsène Taxand. This transaction comes on the heels of the acquisition by Nexity-Reim and Natixis Capital Partners of a building with 13,000 sq. m of floor space on Avenue d’Italie in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. The seller, La Poste, will continue to occupy 33% of the property.
“This second joint investment illustrates our ability to provide efficient operational and financial solutions for companies having to streamline their real estate assets. We intend to actively develop our partnership in this area, and to step up our acquisitions via CAPNEXI,” the companies said in a joint statement» (CS della Società).
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