AMB Property To Merge With ProLogis

Industrial real estate investment trusts AMB Property and ProLogis have signed a merger deal.

Industrial real estate investment trusts (REITs) AMB Property and ProLogis have signed a merger deal. The combined company is expected to have about $46 billion in total assets, adds Bloomberg.

AMB CEO Hamid Moghadam and ProLogis CEO Walter Rakowich will become co-CEOs of the merged company until 2012. JP Morgan Securities was AMB’s financial advisor, while Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz provided the legal advice.

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