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    Rabobank on Monday launched a tender offer to buy back the bottom of the capital structure in its Skyline 2007 CMBS following a downgrade by Fitch last Wednesday (February 16) which took the ‘B’ notes from AA to BBB.
  • Inversiones Alsacia, a Chilean bus concession company, launched an innovative $464m securitisation this week. The 7.5-year deal was priced at 8%, with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and Pierce, Fenner & Smith lead managing.
  • Legacy CMBS deals are becoming more and more acrimonious, as CMBS investors lose patience with extensions and waivers. Noteholders in deals like REC 6 and Opera Finance (Uni-Invest) are struggling to find solutions that will return their principal, while borrowers exploit the divisions between noteholder classes to get more favourable terms. At the same time, a new generation of CMBS deals will seek to avoid the mistakes of the past, and the workout of White Tower 2006-3 shows that with the right conditions, investors will get their money back.
  • Mill Valley, Calif.-based Redwood Trust, the sponsor of the year’s first private-label residential mortgage securitization, shifted from one ratings agency to another in order to get a better rating on its Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-1.
  • A partnership between Wells Fargo Bank and RBS has priced WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2011-C2, a $1.3 billion dollar commercial mortgage-backed securities deal.
  • Deutsche Bank is said to be circling the maturing Centaurus (Eclipse 2005-3) commercial mortgage-backed securitization with the aim of refinancing the German multi-family deal and priming a new CMBS issue, according to a senior official close to the matter.
  • Berkadia Commercial Mortgage has hired commercial mortgage-backed securities veteran Hugh Hall as a managing director of capital markets as part of a plan to expand origination programs after cutting back during the downturn.
  • European commercial mortgage-backed securities deals initially thought to be under major refinancing pressure due to their portfolio size could tempt cash-rich real estate accounts looking for investments as market fundamentals remain solid, according to Société Générale analysts.
  • Real money investors are said to have scooped up the bulk of $3.7 billion in new commercial mortgage-backed securities that sold in the primary market last week, according to officials close to the deals.