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Xavier Niel

Hospitality 22/02/2022

Xavier Niel puts €200m on the table to buy the Lambert Hotel in Paris

Xavier Niel has set his sights on the Hôtel Lambert, located on the Île Saint-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. He is said (...)

Listed 07/04/2021

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 (...)

Hospitality 30/03/2021

Hôtel Par Collection takes over the five-star La Bastide hotel in Saint-Tropez

La Bastide de Saint-Tropez, a five-star hotel under the Relais & Châteaux banner, has been bought — 35 years after its creation by Boris-Serge (...)

Listed 11/02/2021

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 (...)

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 (...)

Career 16/11/2020

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 10/11/2020

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 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 09/11/2020

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 04/11/2020

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 02/11/2020

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 30/10/2020

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 29/10/2020

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 23/10/2020

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 22/10/2020

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 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 20/10/2020

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 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 (...)

Listed 16/10/2020

"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 15/10/2020

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 (...)