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Korean consortium buys M&S' global HQ with £124m MetLife loan

A four-strong Korean investor consortium led by the ethically-motivated quasi-banking group, the Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives (KFCC), is buying Marks & Spencer’s global headquarters in Paddington for £207m financed by a five-year £124m senior loan from MetLife, CoStar News can reveal.
By James Wallace
September 5, 2013 | 7:08 P.M.

KFCC, the supervisory body which manages the Community Cooperatives’ (CC) businesses including overseeing the management of its life and pension fund investments, has provided around half the equity to purchase Marks & Spencer’s HQ, known as Waterside, from D2 Private, the Irish property investment company founded by Deirdre Foley and David Arnold.

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