CA Immo or CA Immobilien Anlagen is an Austrian real estate company based in

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with offices in Germany (

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and

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), and the respective capitals of

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, the

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and

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. CA Immo's core competence is the development and management of office properties in core Europe. In addition to managing existing properties, CA Immo in Germany focuses on the development and realisation of new properties, including entire city districts. As of March 2011, it is a member of the

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(ATX), the index of the twenty largest companies traded on the

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. It is involved with a number of large and notable buildings, including

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, the Skyline Plaza complex in Frankfurt and the Europacity complex in Berlin.

Management

Silvia Schmitten-Walgenbach was appointed CEO of CA Immobilien Anlagen AG as of 1 January 2022. Since 1 November 2018, Keegan Viscius has been part of the Management Board as the new Chief Investment Officer . Andreas Schillhofer assumed the function of Chief Financial Officer as of June 2019.

History

CA Immo was founded in 1987 as part of

Creditanstalt-Bankverein The Creditanstalt (sometimes Credit-Anstalt, abbreviated as CA), full original name k. k. priv. Österreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe (), was a major Austrian bank, founded in 1855 in Vienna. From its founding until 1931, th ...

, an Austrian commercial bank and has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange C1since 1988; since April 2007, CA Immo shares have been traded on the Prime Market. With a stake of around 57% of the share capital, SOF-11 Klimt CAI S.à. r.l., Luxembourg, a company managed by Starwood Capital Group, is the Company's largest shareholder. The remaining approximately 43% of the shares are in free float (as of November 2021). In 2008, CA Immo acquired the German Vivico Real Estate GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, including all non-operational land and brownfield sites of Deutsche Bahn as well as the branches in Munich, Berlin and Frankfurt, as part of its expansion plans in Germany. Since 2008, CA Immo has been one of the most active office developers in Germany At the beginning of 2011, CA Immo acquired the property subsidiary of the Österreichischen Volksbanken Gruppe (ÖVAG) and thereby significantly expanded its portfolio in Eastern Europe. The company employs around 550 people in Austria, Germany and Eastern Europe (as of November 2021). A longstanding goal of CA Immo was to merge with or take over its fellow ATX member

Immofinanz Immofinanz (stylized as IMMOFINANZ) is a commercial real-estate company that focuses its activities on the retail and office segments of seven core markets in Europe: Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Polan ...

. Merger negotiations failed in 2014, as did a takeover bid by CA Immo in spring 2015. In August 2016, CA Immo's then core shareholder O1 Group, controlled by Russian real estate billionaire

Boris Mints Boris Iosifovich Mints (russian: Борис Иосифович Минц; born 24 July 1958) is a Russian oligarch with interests in real estate and finance, and co-founder of Otkritie FC Bank. He has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and ...

and his son Dmitry Mints, sold its 26% stake in CA Immo to Austrian real estate investor Immofinanz, whose goal was also to merge the two companies.Reuters: BRIEF-Immofinanz says talks with CA Immo on merger have started After this plan failed, Immofinanz sold its stake in CA Immo to Starwood Group at the end of September 2018.

References

External links

Corporate website
(in English)
Corporate website
(in German)
German corporate website
(in English)
Budapest Business Journal interviewVienna Stock Exchange: Market Data CA Immobilien Anlagen AG
{{ATX companies Companies based in Vienna Real estate companies of Austria Real estate companies established in 1987