Brookfield Asset Management to Acquire Four Hotels From Hotel Leelaventure for $576 Million

March 18, 2019

March 19-- Mar. 19--MUMBAI -- Canada's Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to acquire four hotels and a land parcel from India's Hotel Leelaventure Ltd for INR3,950 crore, in what would be the largest-ever hotel deal by value in India. The deal culminates more than a year of talks between Brookfield and various stakeholders of debt-laden Hotel Leelaventure, which has been in the middle of financial restructuring. The board of Hotel Leelaventure approved on Monday the sale and transfer of four of its hotel properties to an affiliate of BSREP III, Brookfield's latest real estate fund. The luxury hotel chain owns five hotels...