ECM Real Estate Investments A.G. is
bankrupted 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 othe ...
based in
Luxembourg
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, that was active mostly in
Czech Republic
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, but also in
China
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,
Poland
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or
Russia
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.
Company was founded in 1991 by
Michal Janků,
[ 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
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...
on Prague Stock Exchange
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with price per stock 1,318 CZK (47 EUR), getting market capitalization 262.7 mil. EUR Stocks became part of PX Index
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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 in Prague.
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Real estate companies of the Czech Republic
Real estate companies of China
Defunct companies of Luxembourg