Keppel to acquire a 50% stake in Aermont Capital for $388m.

Keppel, an infrastructure company, agreed to acquire a 50% stake in Aermont Capital, a real estate manager, for $388m. “Aermont Capital runs an established and highly successful asset management platform in Europe, raising the most capital among European real estate funds in the last five years, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The acquisition of an initial 50% stake in Aermont, with a pathway to an eventual 100% ownership and full integration, marks a major strategic step forward in Keppel’s ambition to be a global asset manager and operator, availing us of a highly attractive European platform with strong recurring fees and a premium network of global LPs," Loh Chin Hua, Keppel CEO.