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DALLAS, TX, Aug. 25, 2008 – The Dallas office of HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced today that it arranged bridge financing for a portfolio of 26 corporate-owned assets of
Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, Inc. (top right photo)HFF managing director
Mark West (top left photo) and associate director
Clint Corn worked exclusively on behalf of Lone St
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ar Funds to secure the floating-rate loan through a regional bank.
In late 2007, HFF arranged a similar execution on a pool of 17 Lone Star Steakhouses & Saloon, Inc. assets through a separate regional bank.
Lone Star Funds acquired Wichita-based Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, Inc. in December 2006 through a public-to-private buyout.
The 27 restaurants are located in Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Utah.
Lone Star Funds are closed-end, private-equity limited partnerships that include corporate and public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, bank holding companies, family trusts and insurance comp
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anies.
Since 1995, the principals of Lone Star have organized private equity funds totaling more than $23 billion to invest globally in secured and corporate unsecured debt instruments, real estate related assets and select corporate opportunities.
HFF (NYSE: HF) operates out of 18 offices nationwide and is a leading provider of commercial real estate and capital markets services to the U.S. commercial real estate industry.
HFF offers clients a fully integrated national capital markets platform including debt placement, investment sales, structured finance, private equity, note sales and note sale advisory services and commercial loan servicing.
http://www.hfflp.com/.
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