{"id":1004139323,"date":"2016-03-14T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004139323"},"modified":"2020-04-01T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:02:10","slug":"chinese-insurer-chases-hotel-double-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/chinese-insurer-chases-hotel-double-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Insurer Chases Strategic, Starwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Paul Rosta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese insurance company that bought Manhattan\u2019s famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel is now looking to make a far bigger splash in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\">hospitality market<\/a> with a pair of blockbuster deals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004139326\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004139326\" data-attachment-id=\"1004139326\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/chinese-insurer-chases-hotel-double-play\/hotel-del-coronado-at-night-with-moon_jb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,1996\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1230574959&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hotel Del Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Hotel del Coronado, a San Diego landmark that Angbang would acquire as part of its reported $6.5 billion deal for Strategic Hotels &#038; Resorts.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004139326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg\" alt=\"The Hotel del Coronado, a San Diego landmark that Angbang would acquire as part of its reported $6.5 billion deal for Strategic Hotels &amp; Resorts.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=2048,1363 2048w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=696,463 696w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=1068,711 1068w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=1920,1277 1920w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/03\/Hotel-Del-Coronado-at-Night-with-Moon_JB.jpg?resize=631,420 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004139326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hotel del Coronado, a San Diego landmark that Angbang would acquire as part of its reported $6.5 billion deal for Strategic Hotels &amp; Resorts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to multiple reports, Angbang Insurance Group Co. has struck a $6.5 billion deal to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/strategichotels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Strategic Hotels &amp; Resorts Inc.<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blackstone Group<\/a>, only a few months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/blackstone-makes-a-big-strategic-buy\/\" target=\"_blank\">after Blackstone closed on the acquisition<\/a> of the hospitality chain. Neither Blackstone nor Angbang have yet commented on the rumored deal, which was reported by Bloomberg, CNBC and other sources.<\/p>\n<p>If a sale does emerge, it would represent a $450 million premium to the $6 billion price Blackstone paid for Strategic Hotels, which also included $3.9 billion worth of debt. That transaction, which closed last December, gave Blackstone ownership of 17 trophy hospitality properties, ranging from Marriott Essex House in Midtown Manhattan to San Diego\u2019s Hotel Del Coronado.<\/p>\n<p>Strategic\u2019s portfolio of resorts and urban properties also includes Four Seasons, Fairmont and Intercontinental flags in Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, Chicago, San Francisco, Southern California and Jackson Hole, Wyo. According to some reports, Blackstone initially intended to sell at least some of the properties individually, as it did after buying Equity Office a decade ago, until Angbang made an offer on the entire portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Angbang is simultaneously inserting itself into another hospitality megadeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/default.mi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marriott<\/a>\u2019s proposed takeover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwoodhotels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Inc.<\/a> Starwood disclosed on Monday morning that it had received a non-binding proposal on March 10 from an unidentified group. Starwood\u2019s statement did not name the buyer, but Marriott later identified the leader of the consortium as Angbang. The offer competes with Marriott\u2019s $12.2 billion agreement last November to buy Starwood and its portfolio of nearly 1,300 properties in 100-plus countries.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Angbang-led group\u2019s offer of $76 per share sweetens the deal considerably compared to Marriott\u2019s price of $72 per share, it remains to be seen whether the Chinese investors will outduel Marriott . In its statement, Starwood emphasized that its board\u2019s recommendation to accept Marriott\u2019s offer is unchanged by the consortium\u2019s proposal. \u201cThe Consortium has not completed diligence and there are a number of matters to be resolved in the Consortium\u2019s proposal.\u201d Starwood stated that Marriott had granted a waiver to allow talks with the consortium through Thursday, March 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angbang Insurance Group challenges Marriott&#8217;s offer for Starwood Hotels and reportedly buys Strategic Hotels from new owner Blackstone.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":1004139326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21751,21783,23891,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004139323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotel","category-investment","category-national","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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