At first glance, the sale of 346 Madison Avenue did not seem to involve RFR. But the Aby Rosen company is looking for compensation after he has reportedly done a considerable due diligence on the property, only for that information to apparently facilitate the sale to another party.
RFR brought a lawsuit on Monday in the New York County Supreme Court, the promotion reported. The company sues the selling property entities, led by Luxottica heir and former Brooks Brothers CEO Claudio del Vecchio, for non -specific damage.
The Saga dates out for the Pandemie, when Del Vecchio started looking for the Brooks Brothers store at 346 Madison next to an adjacent office building on 11 East 44th Street. They were offered for sale in 2021, according to the suit, via JLL.
After struggling to sell the property, RFR claims to have come to the scene, so that extensive due diligence is performed on a site that is entangled by difficult destination problems and capitalization problems. It is said that it has reached an exclusivity and confidentiality agreement with the seller and shared information from his due diligence.
A purchase and sales agreement was even adopted, according to the court case. But after an exclusivity period had expired, the agreement was reportedly “duplicated in the name of another buyer and executed.” RFR did not mention the buyer, but it probably didn’t have to be, because at the beginning of this month SL Green had concluded a contract with an acquisition of $ 160 million.
RFR claims that his confidential data has been uploaded to a third -party site that was accessible to competitors, an infringement through which SLEEN could quickly create a deal after the exclusivity window of RFR was closed. RFR compared the infringement of a ‘Trojan Horse’.
JLL -Listing broker David Giancola is said to have used RFR’s interest in real estate to “squeeze the value”, but Giancola is not mentioned as a suspect in the case.
RFR refused to comment on the lawsuit in the promotion. Del Vecchio could not be reached immediately by The real deal.
It is unclear how the lawsuit can influence the plans of SL Green for a thorough steps of office development removed from the Grand Central Terminal; The site could house a project of 800,000 square foot. It borders 350 Madison Avenue, a real estate of 400,000 square feet that is owned by none other than RFR.
– Holden Walter-Warner
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