Exclusive: StanChart sells real estate business to Actis and ICG

Reuters  |  LONDON 

By White

The lender is in talks to sell the rest of the business, outside Asia, to (ICG), a source with direct knowledge of the deal said separately.

reported in November the business has around $700 million in investments across and

A for the confirmed the completion of the deal. StanChart declined to comment on the prospective deal.

and declined to comment on their respective transactions.

The 20-strong StanChart team in will join Actis, the source said. reported in March the two parties had reached a provisional agreement on the deal, as StanChart looks to offload its principal business to focus on its core

London-based had 32.9 billion euros ($37.63 billion) in assets under management at the end of June across a number of private equity, credit and debt strategies.

(Reporting by White, additional reporting by Simon Jessop, editing by and Adrian Croft)

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First Published: Mon, August 20 2018. 20:12 IST