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Léon Bressler

Chairman

Aermont Capital LLP

Investment fund - Investor

Last update March 10, 2023 | Report an error

Paul Golding

Managing Partner

Samuel Kreber

Partner - Chief Financial Officer

Henning Richter

Partner - Managing Director

Finance

Singapore property manager Keppel acquires Aermont

Via a press release, Aermont Capital said it had entered into a "conditional agreement" with Keppel Corporation Limited, a Singapore-listed asset manager and operator (...)

Career

Léon Bressler to become Chairman of Aermont Capital

Aermont Capital announced that founder Léon Bressler, who has led the group as managing partner since inception in 2007, is to become Chairman and (...)

Listed

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield: Xavier Niel crosses the 15% threshold

Xavier Niel is continuing his rise in the capital of the listed property company Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW). The founder and chairman of Iliad has declared (...)

Listed

Debt, disposals, suspended dividend...: how URW will cope with the crisis

Exhausting: this is the most appropriate adjective to sum up the year 2020 at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW). In addition to the health crisis that is (...)

Career

URW: Jean-Marie Tritant unveils a new organisation

Jean-Marie Tritant has just taken over as CEO of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, but he is already making his mark by reorganising the management of the listed property (...)

Career

URW appoints Fabrice Mouchel as Group CFO

Following recommendation from Jean-Marie Tritant, current Group Chief Operating Officer and future Group CEO starting January 1, 2021, the Supervisory Board of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has (...)

Career

Jean-Marie Tritant to succeed Christophe Cuvillier as CEO of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

The Supervisory Board of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE (URW) has appointed Jean-Marie Tritant as Chairman of the Management Board of URW and Group CEO. He will (...)

Listed

URW: the stock market welcomes Bressler and Niel's takeover

Following the takeover of the Léon Bressler/Xavier Niel consortium at URW, would the listed REIT/SIIC sign its "remontada" on the Paris stock exchange? Reading (...)

Career

URW: Colin Dyer resigns as Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Léon Bressler succeeds him

The Supervisory Board of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) met on Friday, in the presence of the three new directors elected at the Group's Combined General Meeting (...)

Listed

URW: "We have to get out of this panic-mode to enter the era of rational decisions" (Bressler/Niel)

The Refocus consortium ­— owning 5% in Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE ("URW"), won a victory today. After weeks of media battle, shareholders rejected the €3.5bn capital (...)

Listed

URW: shareholders reject the €3.5bn capital increase

"Reset" or "Refocus" ? After a (very) media-heavy battle over the strategy to adopt for the recovery of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, waged between the management of the Paris-based REIT/SIIC (...)

Listed

URW: Refocus gets support from former FSIF president

As the 10 November Extraordinary General Meeting of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield approaches, in which shareholders will have to choose between two strategies, the group's Reset recovery plan (...)

Listed

URW: Two American pension funds support the Refocus consortium

The major American pension funds "The California Public Employees' Retirement System" (CalPERS) and the State Board of Administration of Florida (Florida SBA), have announced (...)

Listed

URW further lowers its forecast ten days before its EGM

Faced with a second lockdown spreading over Europe, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has once again lowered its forecasts, at a time when its Reset plan is (...)

Listed

URW: the Refocus consortium welcomes ISS recommendations

The Refocus consortium of European investors, which now holds a combined 5% stake in Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), is welcoming the recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (...)

Listed

Independent advisory firms ISS and Glass Lewis recommends €3.5bn capital increase to URW shareholders

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield's Reset recovery recevied the support of independent advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), which recommended that URW shareholders vote for the €3.5bn capital increase submitted for approval (...)

Listed

URW: Refocus consortium highlights positive market reaction to its plan

The Refocus consortium, made up of European investors and led by Léon Bressler and Xavier Niel, is reacting to the latest position taken by (...)

Listed

The Bressler/Niel consortium exceeds the 5% threshold of URW's share capital

The consortium of investors in Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, led by Léon Bressler of Aermont Capital and Xavier Niel of NJJ Holding, has declared to the AMF (Autorité (...)

Listed

"With Xavier Niel, we are offering an entrepreneurial vision to all URW's shareholders”

Business Immo: Why do you propose a counter-strategy for Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW)? Léon Bressler: First of all, let me say that it is not a counter-strategy. (...)

Listed

URW’s supervisory board doubles down on Reset recovery plan

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s supervisory board reiterated its unanimous support and commitment to the Reset plan presented on September 16, stating it is “the only credible response (...)

Listed

Former URW CEO Guillaume Poitrinal supports the Bressler/Niel's "Refocus" plan

"Bravo to Léon Bressler and Xavier Niel (...). "In one tweet, Guillaume Poitrinal - former head of the real estate company listed on the (...)

Listed

"Léon Bressler's 'Refocus' plan is heading in the right direction"

Business Immo: Léon Bressler and Xavier Niel strongly criticised the Reset plan announced by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. What is your reading of the situation? Benoît Faure-Jarrosson: The (...)

Listed

URW: investors led by Unibail founder Léon Bressler oppose the group's Reset strategy

A consortium of leading real estate and technology investors, holding a combined 4.1% stake in Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, is calling for opposition to the €3.5bn rights (...)

Housing

Léon Bressler enters German housing via Aermont purchase of developer

Legendary real estate investor Léon Bressler, who founded French retail giant Unibail, has entered German housing, taking a control of a developer via his (...)

Housing

French developer LNC, Bressler's Aermont to acquire Rabo's BPD Marignan

French housing developer LNC has entered a joint venture with a fund run by the Aermont group, headed by Unibail founder Léon Bressler, to acquire developer (...)