Global Investment Partners, CBRE’s multi-manager, has bought a 20% stake in a Paris office tower.

The deal sees take over an equity holding in Tour Adria at La Défense.

The stake could be worth as much as €120m given that a 68% stake in the tower was sold last year for around €450m.

The asset is 80% owned by a club of investors in a French OPCI structure, managed by Primonial REIM.

The French asset manager bought a 68% stake in the property last July from Testa, a subsidiary of Spanish property company Sacyr.

Prior to the global financial crisis, Testa had planned to list the 53,841sqm property in a French Société d’Investissement Immobilier Cotée (SIIC) REIT vehicle, having paid €560m for the asset in 2006 at a 6% yield.

CBRE GIP said the tower was fully let to Technip Group on a 12-year lease until 2021, with annual indexation.

Jeremy Plummer, chief executive at CBRE GIP, said: “Whilst the macro-economic environment in France remains challenging, the acquisition offers a unique opportunity to access a landmark building in one of the largest European business hubs at an attractive entry point in the cycle.�

CBRE Global Multi Manager, the indirect arm of CBRE Global Investors, last month changed its name to CBRE Global Investment Partners.

The platform recently said it has raised more than $1.1bn (€849m) since the start of the year.

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