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The deal fell apart on 4 October 2008 after the banking consortium involved pulled out. As successors, Michael Endres (chairman), Bernd Knobloch, Edgar Meister, Sigmar Mosdorf, Hans Jörg Vetter, Bernhard Walter and Manfred Zaß were appointed to the board. Īfter the first crisis summit, the supervisory board members independent from and unaffiliated to JC Flowers and Grove International Partners LLP resigned from the office. On 29 September 2008, Finance Minister of Germany Peer Steinbrück announced that a €35 billion line of credit would be extended to Hypo Real Estate from the Government of Germany and a consortium of German banks. Hypo Real Estate encountered financial difficulties during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, principally due to the heavy debt burden of its Depfa Bank subsidiary.

The firm received a bailout from the Deutsche Bundesbank and other German banks in October 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, before approving a complete nationalization a year later.įinancial difficulties Crisis summits The company remains a legal entity as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hypo Real Estate Group. In 2007 it acquired public finance company Depfa Bank. Its shares were further demoted to the SDAX in September 2009. It employs about 2,000 people and was one of the 30 members of the DAX stock market index of the largest German companies between December 2005 and December 2008, before the shares were demoted to the MDAX. The bank originated in 2003 from the real estate financing business of HypoVereinsbank. Hypo Real Estate is the second largest commercial property lender in Germany. The company's activities span three sectors of the real estate market: commercial property, infrastructure and public finance, and capital markets and asset management. The Hypo Real Estate Holding AG is a holding company based in Munich, Germany which comprises a number of real estate financing banks.
