安邦65亿美元收购美国酒店资产
Chinese insurer Anbang has struck its biggest deal for prime US property, agreeing to buy Strategic Hotels & Resorts for $6.5bn only three months after private equity group Blackstone took the luxury hotels collection private.
中国安邦保险(Anbang Insurance)已达成该公司最大一笔收购美国高端地产的协议，同意斥资65亿美元收购Strategic Hotels & Resorts，仅3个月前，美国私人股本集团黑石(Blackstone)将这些豪华酒店收归私有。
The acquisition is the latest sign of China’s unprecedented march on foreign assets at a time when the world’s second-largest economy grapples with turbulent economic conditions.
此次收购是在中国艰难应对动荡的经济环境之际，世界第二大经济体以空前规模向海外资产进军的最新标志。
It also suggests that Anbang, which along with investment conglomerate Fosun International and real estate group Dalian Wanda have spearheaded many of China’s most ambitious deals, is undeterred in its acquisition spree in spite of a political backlash over some dealmaking attempts.
此举还表明安邦——与投资企业集团复星国际(Fosun International)及地产集团大连万达(Dalian Wanda)一道带头敲定了中国许多最雄心勃勃的收购交易——并未在其收购热潮中退却，尽管该公司的某些交易尝试遭遇了政治阻力。
Strategic Hotels & Resorts owns 16 luxury US hotels including San Diego’s waterfront Hotel del Coronado and New York’s JW Marriott Essex House Hotel, which sits on the southern board of Central Park. Blackstone, which is also the largest shareholder in hotel group Hilton, closed a deal to acquire the company for $6bn in December.
Strategic Hotels & Resorts在美国拥有16家豪华酒店，包括位于圣地亚哥海滨的科罗拉多大酒店(Hotel del Coronado)以及坐落于纽约中央公园南侧的艾塞克斯豪斯JW万豪酒店(JW Marriott Essex House Hotel)。去年12月，黑石——同时还是希尔顿(Hilton)酒店集团第一大股东——以60亿美元完成了对Strategic Hotels & Resorts的收购。
The transaction may be announced as soon as Monday, according to a person close to the matter. Blackstone declined to comment and Anbang could not be reached for comment. In late 2014, Anbang bought New York’s Waldorf Astoria from Blackstone for nearly $2bn, or about $1.3m per room in the hotel.
知情人士表示，该交易最早可能在周一宣布。黑石拒绝对此置评，记者联系不上安邦请其置评。2014年末，安邦斥资近20亿美元（平均每间客房约130万美元）从黑石手中收购了纽约华尔道夫酒店(Waldorf Astoria)。
Subsequently, Anbang continued its global buying spree, snapping up a majority stake in South Korea’s Tongyang Life for $1bn and a series of office buildings in Toronto and Vancouver for about $100m each.
收购华尔道夫酒店之后，安邦继续大举进行全球收购，以10亿美元价格获得韩国东洋人寿(Tongyang Life)多数股权，并在多伦多、温哥华以每笔1亿美元左右的价格拿下多栋写字楼。
