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Guillaume Poitrinal

Finance 22/02/2023

Altarea becomes the sole shareholder of Woodeum

Altarea continues to work with Woodeum. Already a 50% shareholder in this company since July 2019, Altarea has today acquired the remaining shares from (...)

Green 21/06/2022

"The few remaining building mayors are heroes"

Business Immo: In your book, you oppose the camp of the "decreasers" and the camp of the optimists. Who are they? Guillaume Poitrinal: First of (...)

Listed 15/12/2020

Icamap launches "Icamax" a new fund focused on Listed European Real Estate

Icamap, the Luxembourg fund manager founded by Guillaume Poitrinal, Harm Meijer, and Alexandre Aquien, with assets of €1.6bn under management is launching a new (...)

Listed 17/11/2020

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 (...)

Listed 10/11/2020

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 21/10/2020

"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 16/10/2020

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 (...)

Territories 03/09/2020

New French mayors, Nicolas Sarkozy, Covid-19... Mipim is turning into a political and economic meeting place

In the absence of a Cannes edition this year —that was postponed and then cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic— Mipim will relocate to (...)

Office 25/06/2020

France’s Icawood, WO2 and BNP PRE raise €650m to launch Nanterre's 126,000 sqm Arboretum campus

Icawood, a fund launched by Icamap and Ivanhoe Cambridge, WO2 and BNP Paribas Real Estate announced today that they have raised €650m for the (...)

Office 11/12/2019

Icawood makes first investment, in low-carbon project in Paris

Icawood, the investment fund created in 2019 by France's Icamap and Canada's Ivanhoe Cambridge, has made its first investment - in a 31,500 sqm low-carbon project (...)

Hospitality 14/10/2019

Ivanhoe Cambridge, Icamap take control, at 68.8%, of easyHotel after bid

Ivanhoe Cambridge, the real estate unit of Québec pension fund CDPQ, together with investment group Icamap, have taken control, at 68.8%, of easyHotel after a takeover bid. Launched in (...)

Listed 03/09/2019

ICAMAP protests Gazit Globe's takeover of Atrium European, saying far undervalues firm

Investment manager ICAMAP has written to stakeholders in listed CEE retail group Atrium, saying the take-private moves of major shareholder Gazit Globe far undervalue the firm. The (...)

Housing 17/07/2019

Altarea Cogedim acquires a 50% stake in Woodeum Résidentiel

The founders of the Woodeum group, Guillaume Poitrinal and Philippe Zivkovic, announced today that French REIT/SIIC Altarea Cogedim has acquired a 50% stake in (...)

Finance 18/04/2019

New actors on the European stage

“When it comes to equity, European real estate is like a busy nightclub – as soon as one group leaves, another seems to be (...)

Listed 18/02/2019

French Icade boosts 2018 attributable net 19% to €155m

French office, business parks and healthcare REIT Icade, partly state-owned, grew net attributable profit by nearly 19% to €154.9m last year and will propose (...)

Office 12/02/2019

France's ICAMAP, Canada's Ivanhoé target €1.6bn low-carbon Paris office

French investment manager ICAMAP and Canada's Ivanhoé Cambridge are launching a joint venture called ICAWOOD to develop low-carbon office in Greater Paris, targeting investments of €1.6bn. The firms said (...)

Hospitality 21/03/2018

Icamap's £50m easyHotel capital raise aims to fund expansion - Poitrinal

Icamap, the investment fund started by former Unibail CEO Guillaume Poitrinal, has invested £50m in UK super-budget easyHotel group in a capital raise that took its stake to 38.7%, (...)