Lehman Brothers
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UK commercial property market: is a crash or correction on the way?
Over the past five decades, the UK commercial property market has endured three severe downturns since the 1970s. The timing of each has been consistent, occurring at intervals of 16…
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Where were you when Lehman Brothers collapsed?
EDITOR’S COMMENT: It may be that we look back on three deals around this 10th anniversary as a critical juncture. And hopefully a positive one.
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Owen: ‘With Lehman it is sometimes easy to forget that Northern Rock came before’
LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Duncan Owen, global head of real estate at Schroders and former chief executive of Invista Real Estate, talks about the warnings that were ignored and the areas most…
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Adams: ‘The salutary lesson was that even apparently good investments can collapse’
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Aubrey Adams, former Savills chief executive, member of the British Land board, head of property at RBS’s Global Restructuring Group, current chairman of L&Q and member of…
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London offices, 10 years after the Lehman collapse
I wonder if any given 10-year period in London’s office market has seen quite as much change as the decade since the Lehman Brothers collapse.
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LISTEN: The collapse of Lehman Brothers – harrowing memories, lessons learnt and the next crash
EG spoke to the industry’s leading figures who were at the centre of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 about their vivid recollections of the harrowing era and…
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Sandelson: “Personally I felt enormous shame”
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Partner at Westbourne Capital Partners, co-founder of Auriens, and founder of GuestInvest talks about how the financial crash destroyed his business
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Flood: ‘Undoubtedly, the credit crunch resulted in many of us having to completely start again’
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Brendan Flood, the former chief executive of Modus Ventures – the retail developer that collapsed into administration in May 2009 – remembers the “utter shock” he felt…
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Croft: ‘I would have done a lot of things differently’
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Richard Croft, chief executive of M7 Real Estate, examines how the use of data can be fundamental in avoiding another financial crisis.
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Dakin: ‘Everything falls together, the difference comes in recovery’
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Richard Dakin, managing director, CBRE Capital Advisors, remembers the fallout from the crisis and how London managed to recover.
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Caplan: ‘Failure was not an option’
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: As the industry’s most influential players look back at the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the lessons that can be learnt from it, Ken Caplan, global co-head…
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Jakeman: ‘What doesn’t break you makes you stronger’
THE LEHMAN CHRONICLES: Today, James Jakeman, partner at Benson Elliot and former executive director at Lehman Brothers, gives his take on the events leading up to the crash