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Grubb & Ellis Company
Receives
Listing Standards Notice from NYSE
SANTA ANA, Calif. (April 8, 2011) – Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, today reported that on April 7, 2011, it was notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it is not currently in compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing standards, which require a minimum average closing price of $1 per share over 30 consecutive trading days.
Subject to providing required notice and an ongoing assessment by the NYSE, the company is permitted up to a six-month period, from the date of the notification to cure this deficiency. During this period, Grubb & Ellis common shares will continue to be listed and traded on the NYSE, subject to its compliance with other NYSE continued listing standards, and a “.BC” indicator will be affixed to the GBE ticker symbol. As required, the company intends to notify the NYSE that it intends to cure the deficiency. The company’s business operations, SEC reporting requirements and debt instruments are unaffected by the notification.
On March 21, Grubb & Ellis announced that it had engaged JMP Securities to explore strategic alternatives, including the potential sale or merger of the company. Grubb & Ellis also announced on March 30, that it had received an $18 million financing commitment from Colony Capital, LLC, in the form of a senior secured term loan facility, which gives Colony 60 days to evaluate the possibility of making a larger strategic investment.
About Grubb & Ellis Company
Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is one of the largest and most
respected commercial real estate services and investment companies in the
world. Our 5,200 professionals in more than 100 company-owned and affiliate
offices draw from a unique platform of real estate services, practice groups
and investment products to deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions to real
estate owners, tenants and investors. The firm’s transaction, management,
consulting and investment services are supported by highly regarded proprietary
market research and extensive local expertise. Through its investment
management business, the company is a leading sponsor of real estate investment
programs. For more information, visit www.grubb-ellis.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release may constitute
forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the company’s actual
results and events in future periods to be materially different from those
anticipated, including risks and uncertainties related to the financial
markets. Such factors which could adversely affect the company’s ability
to obtain these results include, among other things: (i) a continued or
further weakness in the company’s Investment Management business,
including the velocity and volume of equity raised; (ii) the general
economic pressures on transaction values of sales and leasing transactions and
businesses in general; (iii) a prolonged and pronounced recession in real
estate markets and values; (iv) the unavailability of credit to finance
real estate transactions in general and the company’s tenant-in-common
programs, in particular; (v) the success of current and new investment
programs; (vi) the success of new initiatives and investments;
(vii) the inability to attain expected levels of revenue, performance,
brand equity in general, and in the current macroeconomic and credit
environment, in particular; (viii) the inability of the company’s
subsidiary, NNN Realty Advisors, Inc. to come into compliance with the
contractually specified net worth requirements with respect to approximately
30 percent of the tenant-in-common programs managed by the company;
(ix) the nature and amount of the net intercompany balance between the
company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Daymark Realty Advisors, Inc.,
(x) the occurrence of bankruptcies by unaffiliated, individual investor
entities in the company’s tenant-in-common programs which may result in
demands for payments on certain non-recourse/carve-out guaranty and
indemnification obligations issued by the company’s subsidiaries, which
may, in turn, in the event such guaranty or indemnification obligations cannot
be met, result in a cross-default under the company’s issued and
outstanding Convertible Senior Notes; (xi) the ultimate outcome in various
legal proceedings concerning tenant-in-common programs sponsored by the
company’s subsidiaries, including the arbitration proceeding with respect
to the Met 10 Center in Texas; (xii) the closing of the $18 million
financing from Colony Capital; and (xiii) other factors described in the
company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2010, and in other Current Reports on Form 8-K filed by the
company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements.
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