BCP bank has closed the sale of a NPL portfolio, called “Projeto Webb”, to the consortium Group Arrow/Christofferson, Robb & Company (CRC) confirmed Whitestar Asset Solutions, a company of the Arrow Group specialized in the management of credit portfolios (NPL) and real estate.
This is a more granular portfolio whose initial value was 450 million euros, but which has been adjusted to 270 million euros.
With this transaction, in addition to the purchase of the NPL portfolio from the Novo Banco, named “Carter”, announced in December, Whitestar Asset Solutions now manages over 9 billion euros in assets.
Novo Banco sold in December a portfolio of unproductive assets with a gross book value of 79 million euros for about 37 million. This was a portfolio made up of small secured and unsecured loans, i.e. it includes both collateral and non-collateralised loan contracts.
The “Carter” operation, unlike others over the past two years, does not include assets covered by the Contingent Capitalisation Facility under the Resolution Fund.
In all, in 2020 Whitestar won the management of four portfolios of NPLs (bad loans). After winning the management of two portfolios of NPLs sold by Santander (BST52 and 53), Whitestar confirms that in December, in two competitive processes, Arrow Global’s fund (sole shareholder of the company led in Portugal by João Bugalho) won the tender for the purchase of two portfolios of unproductive assets, in consortium with Christofferson, Robb & Company (CRC). The first portfolio, the Webb portfolio, originated by BCP, has a total of 270 million euros in debt, while Carter, originated from Novo Banco, has 92 million euros in debt.
The market for the sale of problem assets remains active. The Novo Banco, for example, is in the process of selling the “Wilkinson Project” portfolio, worth 200 million. Eco reported that Davidson Kempner, Atena Equity Partners (in consortium with Blantyre), and Bank of America Merrill Lynch moved into the second phase. The market expects the financial institution to launch a new portfolio in the market earlier this year.
BCP has yet to close the sale of the “Ellis” portfolio, having been chosen as the buyer, according to Eco, the management company Davidson Kempner. Initially, the “Ellis Project” had a value of 300 million euros, but with the withdrawal of some credits the value of the portfolio was reduced to about 170 million, Eco also advanced.
Original Story: O Jornal Económico | Maria Teixeira Alves
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