{"id":1004101835,"date":"2014-08-06T06:17:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004101835"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T05:15:19","slug":"in-reit-eat-reit-deal-northstar-to-acquire-griffin-american-healthcare-reit-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/in-reit-eat-reit-deal-northstar-to-acquire-griffin-american-healthcare-reit-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"In REIT-Eat-REIT Deal, NorthStar to Acquire Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/08\/Jeff-Hanson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004101837\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/in-reit-eat-reit-deal-northstar-to-acquire-griffin-american-healthcare-reit-ii\/jeff-hanson-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/08\/Jeff-Hanson.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"350,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;wallis photo LLC&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;www.wallisphoto.com&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jeff Hanson\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/08\/Jeff-Hanson.jpg?w=350\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1004101837\" alt=\"Jeff Hanson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/08\/Jeff-Hanson.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc. in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at $4 billion, both companies announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The $4 billion figure comes out to $11.50 per Griffin-American share, which breaks down as $7.75 per share in cash and $3.75 per share in NorthStar Realty common stock. The latter value assumes that NorthStar Realty\u2019s stock price at closing is between $16 and $20.17 per share.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to the approval of each party\u2019s shareholders and customary closing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II holds 286 properties totaling 11.1 million square feet, with an aggregated purchase price of $2.9 billion. The properties are in 31 states plus the United Kingdom, but 46 percent are in the U.K., Indiana, Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania, according to information provided to <i>Commercial Property Executive<\/i> by a Griffin-American spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Medical office buildings make up 46.6 percent of the portfolio, which also includes seniors housing, skilled nursing facilities and hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we launched Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II nearly five years ago, we set out to build a premium portfolio of diversified healthcare real estate in order to provide investors with an opportunity to realize a compelling return on their investment,\u201d Griffin-American chairman &amp; CEO Jeff Hanson said in a release. \u201cWith this transaction, we have executed on our strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BofA Merrill Lynch, Robert A. Stanger &amp; Co. and KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. acted as financial advisors to Griffin-American. Latham &amp; Watkins L.L.P., McGuireWoods L.L.P. and Morris, Manning &amp; Martin L.L.P. acted as legal advisors to Griffin-American.<\/p>\n<p>UBS Investment Bank and CS Capital Advisors are financial advisors to NorthStar Realty, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison LLP is its legal counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II is co-sponsored by American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Corp.<\/p>\n<p>NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. is a CRE investment company organized as a REIT and managed by an affiliate of NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc. in a stock-and-cash transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004101837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37774,37775,21754,21742,37776,37777,37778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004101835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rc-dividend-yield","category-rc-forward-affo-payout-ratios","category-medical-office","category-latest","category-rc-premium-discount-to-nav","category-rc-price-ltm-ffo","category-rc-total-return"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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