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Trinity College takes 50% stake in Tesco sale-and-leaseback

Trinity College, the University of Cambridge College founded by King Henry VIII in 1546, has taken a 50% equity stake in the portfolio of 11 UK Tesco supermarkets, which the giant retailer closed in a £450m credit-linked CMBS against yesterday, CoStar News has discovered.
By James Wallace
January 27, 2012 | 5:45 P.M.

The stake in the £440.5m portfolio has been bought by the College’s (pictured) circa £700m independent endowment fund for what is thought to be only a nominal fee in view of the fact that the University College will not derive any economic benefit from its ownership until the maturity of the real estate bonds at least 22.5 years into the securitised loan’s 30-year maturity.

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