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Jeffrey Lefleur
Managing Director, European Investments W. P. Carey
Since joining the International Investment Team at its founding in 2003, Mr. Lefleur has focused on the international growth of the Company and has been actively developing its new business in Western Europe. As a specialist in the structuring of IAS / IFRS compliant sale-leaseback financing for special-purpose industrial real estate, Mr. Lefleur has helped to close the Company's first deals in Canada, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Thailand. Mr. Lefleur has been involved in the closing of many significant transactions on behalf of W. P. Carey, particularly for turnaround, restructuring, and highly leveraged private companies in the manufacturing sector. Most recently, Mr. Lefleur led the completion of a €155 million ($207 million) sale leaseback financing transaction with C1000 B.V., a leading Dutch supermarket company. The deal is currently the largest sale leaseback transaction to have closed in Europe in 2011. Other recent and notable transactions managed by Mr. Lefleur include the completion of a €126 million ($166 million) sale leaseback transaction with Croatia's largest private company, Agrokor, and a €120 million ($159 million) sale leaseback financing deal with leading Spanish food retailer, Eroski. Mr. Lefleur graduated from New York University's Stern School of Business with a double major in Finance and Accounting.
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