Tag: CV-Grupo

CV Grupo Debuts First Spanish Socimi on Euronext

17 September 2018 – Expansión

Salvador Vila Arcos and the Copoví Ridaura brothers have created Logis Confort, which owns seven industrial buildings in Valencia and Madrid, and they have opted to debut the entity on a secondary French market in light of the more onerous demands of the MAB.

One of the main developers of industrial warehouses in Valencia, CV Grupo, has converted its firm Logic Confort into the first Spanish Socimi to list on the Euronext Access market in Paris. The firm has opted for that secondary French market due to its less onerous requirements and its greater flexibility with respect to the Spanish Alternative Investment Market (MAB).

Logis Confort groups together seven industrial properties that the company leases, mainly in Valencia plus one in Madrid. The assets are worth €15 million. The firm started to trade in July with a benchmark price for its shares of €2.20, which represents a company valuation of €11 million. Although its corporate headquarters are located in Madrid, its three shareholders are from Valencia. The main shareholder is Salvador Vila Arcos, who owns 50% of the firm and is the owner of several firms that operate under the CV Grupo brand, with which it has developed and constructed some of the Ford suppliers’ park in Almussafes. His partners are two builders from that town, Edelmiro and José Manuel Copoví Ridaura, each of whom own 25%.

According to sources at the firm, the decision to opt for the Euronext exchange over the MAB fundamentally due to the conditions regarding the number of shareholders, the diffusion of the shareholding and of the free-floating shares – the percentage of total share capital trading freely on the stock market – demanded by the Spanish market and which did not fit with the company’s plans. Last year, the MAB tightened up its requirements in light of the Socimi boom to take advantage of tax benefits.

In fact, Logis Confort, which has relied on Armanext as an advisor, does not initially expect to open its share capital up to investors in general. Its strategy is to expand the Socimi’s capital by contributing more assets, some of which involve other partners who may join the shareholding of the company.

With this formula, the group also wants to take advantage of the creation of Logis Confort to reorganised its corporate structure and to be able to have an instrument for future operations and alliances.

As Expansión published, CV Grupo participates in companies with the investment firm Atitlán for the management of industrial warehouses.

Original story: Expansión (by A. C. A.)

Translation: Carmel Drake

A Spanish Socimi Debuts on the Paris Stock Market to Avoid the MAB’s Requirements

26 July 2018 – Idealista

Some of Spain’s Socimis are looking beyond the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) in search of visibility, prestige…and one or more regulatory benefits. Logis Confort, the Socimi owned by the Valencian property developer and construction firm CV Grupo, has become the first in Spain to list on the Euronext exchange.

The company made its debut on the stock market headquartered in Paris on 13 July, at a price of €2.20 per share and a market capitalisation of more than €11 million; its portfolio comprises seven assets. Together its assets span a surface area of 23,521 m2 and are worth around €15 million, according to Gesvalt’s calculations.

Logis Confort is dedicated to the rental of industrial and logistics buildings. Founded in 2001 by Salvador Vila Arcos, the owner of CV Grupo (which specialises in building and leasing industrial warehouses and spaces), the company adopted the Socimi structure in August 2016. The firm, which has been advised by Armanext (the largest Spanish advisor in taking Socimis to the European stock market) has its headquarters in San Fernando de Henares, in Madrid.

The company is currently working on medium- and long-term projects and its aim is the acquisition of buildings, through purchase or development, in areas “with a great industrial tradition and close to large Spanish cities, to transfer them for rent”, according to the firm. The group’s shareholders include Salvador Vila Arcos, who owns 50% of the capital; Edelmiro Copoví, who owns 25%; and his brother José Manuel Copoví, who owns the remaining 25%.

The company’s shareholder structure is, precisely, one of the features that draws the most attention. Since it does not have any minority shareholders, the vehicle cannot trade on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) where all of Spain’s other Socimis are listed, with the exception of the largest, which trade on the traditional stock market. It was just a year ago, when the manager of the market decided to tighten up the rules and, since then, it has forced these types of companies to have a minimum quantity of minority shareholders to approve their stock market debuts (…).

Therefore, since it did not have any minority shareholders, it soon became clear that the Socimi would have to undertake the operation on another European market. And Euronext is the one that establishes the fewest requirements in this regard, specifically the market called Euronext Access (there is another one called ‘Growth’, which establishes more onerous requirements). As such, it was chosen for the firm’s stock market debut to allow it to maintain the tax benefits that are afforded to Socimis (…).

Logis’s portfolio

Logis Confort has a portfolio of assets comprising seven industrial properties and several parking lots in Madrid and Valencia, two markets that are being boosted by the improvement in the economy, the recovery in exports, domestic consumption and e-commerce. By market value and surface area, the jewel in Logis Confort’s crown is the logistics warehouse located in Picassent, in Valencia, which spans 11,800 m2 and has a market value of €8 million. That property is leased to Facil Europe and Transfesa.

Also in Valencia, the Socimi owns assets in Almussafers and Ribarroja, which together have a market value of €6 million and span an industrial space of more than 10,700 m2. In Madrid, the company owns a logistics property in San Fernando de Henares, leased to Transecort Logistics, which has a market price of less than €1 million (…).

Original story: Idealista (by Custodio Pareja and Ana P. Alarcos)

Translation: Carmel Drake

CV-Grupo Acquires Logistics Plot in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid)

16 March 2018 – Inmodiario

The Valencian firm CV-Grupo has purchased a plot measuring 12,500 m2 in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) on the Puerta de Madrid industrial estate, alongside Amazon and other large companies, where it is going to construct a logistics warehouse.

In this way, CV-Grupo is expanding its land in Madrid. The Valencian property developer is led by Salvador Vila and specialises in the construction and promotion of assets in the logistics and industrial sectors. The firm has purchased the plot in Madrid in order to expand its portfolio of industrial properties through the promotion of a logistical warehouse. Its portfolio now spans a surface area of more than 200,000 m2, including the assets in Valencia and Madrid.

The acquired space is located on the A-2 highway, in the heart of the Henares corridor, in the town of San Fernando de Henares, on the industrial estate known as Puerta de Madrid (…).

The asset will allow CV-Grupo to develop a logistics warehouse measuring 8,500 m2 on the Puerta de Madrid industrial estate, by the A-2 and M-45 highways, one of the most sought-after in the sector in the Spanish capital. There, its neighbours will include, amongst others, multinational firms such as Amazon, Tdn, XPO and Plaza supermarkets. This industrial estate is considered as one of the fastest growing and best located in the Community of Madrid.

CV-Grupo began its activity in Madrid in 2000 in the Corredor de Henares, where it undertook developments in Coslada, San Fernando and Torrejón de Ardoz (…).

The construction work on this site, which is due to start in the second quarter of the year, will be completed before the end of the year (…).

Original story: Inmodiario 

Translation: Carmel Drake