{"id":1004136731,"date":"2016-02-09T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004136731"},"modified":"2020-05-18T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:41:28","slug":"brixmor-taps-change-agent-to-restore-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/brixmor-taps-change-agent-to-restore-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixmor Taps Change Agent to Restore Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Rosta<\/p>\n<p>Analysts praised the choice of former <a href=\"https:\/\/ddr.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">DDR Corp.<\/a> chief Daniel Hurwitz on Monday to right the ship at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brixmor.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brixmor Property Group Inc.<\/a>, the retail REIT that dismissed three of its top executives after an in-house audit uncovered cases of improper accounting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004103741\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004103741\" data-attachment-id=\"1004103741\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ddr-ceo-hurwitz-to-depart-at-end-of-2015\/daniel-hurwitz-ceo-ddr-corp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&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=\"Daniel Hurwitz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Former DDR chief Daniel Hurwitz,  tasked with restoring investor confidence in Brixmor Property Group Inc. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg?w=500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004103741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg\" alt=\"Former DDR chief Daniel Hurwitz,  tasked with restoring investor confidence in Brixmor Property Group Inc. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/09\/Daniel-Hurwitz-CEO-DDR-Corp..jpg?resize=300,300 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004103741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former DDR chief Daniel Hurwitz, tasked with restoring investor confidence in Brixmor Property Group Inc.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In commentary published on Monday afternoon, Fitch Ratings analysts Steven Marks and Stephen Boyd observed that Hurwitz is \u201cgenerally well known and highly regarded to REIT investors\u201d from his track record at DDR Corp., as well as the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/raiderhill.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Raider Hill Advisors<\/a>, an investment management firm.<\/p>\n<p>Hurwitz\u2019s challenge will be to restore investor confidence in Brixmor, whose 518-property, 87 million-square-foot portfolio constitutes the nation\u2019s largest wholly owned portfolio of grocery-anchored community and neighborhood shopping centers.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s shakeup was prompted by the findings of a review by Brixmor\u2019s Audit Committee. \u201cThe review led the Board to conclude that specific company accounting and financial reporting personnel, in certain instances, were smoothing income items, both up and down, between reporting periods in an effort to achieve consistent quarterly same property net operating income (&#8216;same property NOI&#8217;) growth, an industry non-GAAP financial measure,\u201d the company explained in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, several former Brixmor executives are looking for work. Departures included those of CEO Michael Carroll, President &amp; CFO Michael Pappagallo and Chief Accounting Officer Steven Splain. Also departing was an unidentified employee who worked in accounting. \u201cThe Board is disappointed to have learned of the conduct and lack of appropriate management supervision uncovered as a result of the Audit Committee review,\u201d the board said in a statement. \u201cOnce the facts were known, the board moved swiftly to take remedial action.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>Makeover Specialist<\/h1>\n<p>Brixmor\u2019s new leader earned a reputation as a makeover specialist during his  five-year run at DDR. As Brixmor noted in its statement announcing the management changes, Hurwitz \u201cled the execution of a strategic vision that resulted in the full transformation of key management positions, the complete upgrade of portfolio quality and its cash flow credit profile, the revival and stabilization of a distressed balance sheet, and establishment of market credibility from the investment community.\u201d Among other measures, Hurwitz oversaw the refocusing of the company as a power-center specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Brixmor also announced a three-week delay in its fourth-quarter earnings announcement, which will take place on Feb. 29, instead of Monday as originally scheduled. Fitch described the effect of the restatement of same-store NOI growth released yesterday by Brixmor \u201cgenerally immaterial\u201d and added that the company maintains an adequate liquidity position.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the company\u2019s shares took a pounding on Monday, dropping about 20 percent. A flurry of law firms announced intentions to investigate possible breaches of responsibility to shareholders. An affiliate of the Blackstone Group, Brixmor went public in November 2013 and raised $825 million from its initial public offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Hurwitz is tasked with restoring confidence in the retail REIT after improper accounting forced the departure of three senior executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":1004103741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21808,21742,21749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004136731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest","category-retail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brixmor Taps Change Agent to Restore Confidence - 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