
ECM Real Estate Investments A.G. is
bankrupted
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real estate developer
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others. ...
based in
Luxembourg
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, that was active mostly in
Czech Republic
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, but also in
China,
Poland
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or
Russia
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.
Company was founded in 1991 by
Michal Janků
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,
[ he is now still its ]CEO
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and through ECM Group N.V. largest shareholder (77%) of the company.[ECM 2010 Annual Report]
/ref> Company owned inter alia two tallest buildings in the Czech Republic - City Tower and City Empiria. In 2006 company went on IPO on Prague Stock Exchange with price per stock 1,318 CZK (47 EUR), getting market capitalization 262.7 mil. EUR Stocks became part of PX Index and eventually reached price 2,000 CZK per share.
Mainly as result of late-2000s financial crisis company went bankrupt in May 2011 and to liquidation
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since July 2011. In 2012 liquidation was changed to reorganization,[https://isir.justice.cz/isir/doc/dokument.PDF?id=3960489 ] but reverted to liquidation in February 2013.[Prague Monitor: Prague court declares developer ECM bankrupt]
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Before its bankruptcy, ECM was involved in the development of V Tower
V Tower is a high-rise building in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the tallest residential building in the Czech Republic with 104 meters in height and 30 floors. Construction started in 2016 and ended in 2018. It was designed by Czech architect R ...
in Prague.
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Real estate companies of the Czech Republic
Real estate companies of China
Defunct companies of Luxembourg