AMB Consolidation Case Solution
The assistant VP (The Fund), is accountable for investing approximately $80 million in real estate assets. She'd been pleased with the relationship of The Fund with AMB; investing with AMB supplied a cost effective, value added means for The Fund to own property. Lately, AMB proposed to merge all the properties into a REIT under its direction and to choose the new REIT people. Along with the focus on REITs, qualitative problems in the case contain the preponderance of conflicts of interest in many facets of the property business that is highly fragmented. The mechanisms of a consolidation, the valuation of a direction company, and the notion of "franchise value" are also addressed.
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PUBLICATION DATE: January 11, 1999