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CC Land lines up £800m RCF as currency hedge

Hong Kong investor CC Land has entered into an £800m revolving credit facility as a result of its £1.4bn of London property acquisitions already this year, including the Cheesegrater and 1 Kingdom Street, as a hedging strategy against fluctuations in the pound, CoStar News can reveal.
By James Buckley
April 7, 2017 | 12:30 P.M.

On exchange of contracts on its £1.15bn acquisition of the Cheesegrater, formally known as the Leadenhall Building, CC Land lined up the RCF in Sterling but with security over an equivalent amount of HK$ and US$ cash deposits. The move is designed to minimise the investor’s exposure to foreign exchange risk of the pound.

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