American investment fund HPS to buy Slovenian Merkur

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017, bankruptcy manager of the Slovenian Merkur Simona Goriup opened improved offers for Merkur trgovina, a healthy core from bankruptcy estate of this trader in technical goods. She confirmed private investment fund HPS (formerly known as Higbridge Principal Strategies) offered the most favorable offer for Merkur. Details of the sales procedure, including prices reached, will be known after agreement on sale is agreed by the court that supervises bankruptcy, Ljubljana-based Delo reported.

The HPS investment fund based in New York and with offices around the world, including London from where it will buy Merkur trgovina, manages USD 39 billion in assets. According to available data, it is mainly focused on investments in North America and Western Europe, while in Slovenia, according to unofficial information, it cooperated with representatives Elements Capital company.

The HPS Fund, also according to unofficial information, is competing for the purchase of 13 shopping malls, which are at the same time sold by Heta Asset Resolution, a bad bank of the former Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria International.

Merkur Group Naklo

Addiko bank (Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank AG ) Austria

Heta asset resolution AG Austria

Fond HPS

Higbridge Principal Strategies

Simona Goriup

stečaj Merkura

Merkur trgovine

Merkur trgovački centri

Merkur nekretnine

Heta Asset Resolution

Hypo Alpe Adria International