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Financing branded real estate development through a tokenized bond

Branded Real Estate Group (Client under confidentiality)

A private tokenization platform dedicated to branded real estate, serving as the investment arm of an international developer with over a decade of experience delivering branded residences with global luxury brands. It provides the infrastructure to structure and place tokenized bonds financing the parent group's global residential developments

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Context

Real estate development financing has long grappled with inherent challenges in access to capital, jurisdictional complexity and investor liquidity. Delve into these key challenges and see how private bond tokenization provides an innovative solution to navigate these complexities.

  • Real estate development financing has been marred by obstacles that restrict access to capital, add jurisdictional complexity and limit investor liquidity.

  • Limited access to capital arises from banks retreating from real estate development lending, declining to renew maturing loans and requiring principal paydowns as a condition of extension, regardless of how the underlying asset is performing.

  • Jurisdictional complexity arises from financing a portfolio of developments spread across multiple countries, each with its own legal framework, currency and construction timeline, within a single financing structure.

  • Investor liquidity remains a fundamental issue, as the private placement route traditionally used to raise institutional capital is slow to structure, restricted to a narrow pool of qualified investors, and offers no secondary market once a bond is placed.

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Asseto enabled the tokenization of a regulated private placement bond for real estate development.

With Asseto as the tokenization platform, the bond was structured and placed as a Senior Secured Private Placement Bond to Qualified Investors, under Prospectus Regulation Art.1(4) and FinSA Art.36(1), governed by Swiss law for the bond itself and by local law for the real-property security backing each development.

  1. Market Participants

    The operational structure defines a clear chain of responsibility; Qualified Investors and Bondholders at the top, the Sponsor originating and managing the underlying development projects, the Issuer as the legal entity placing the bond, and the tokenization platform, powered by Asseto, underpinning the structure.

  2. Regulatory Compliance

    The bond was placed privately to Qualified Investors under Prospectus Regulation Art.1(4) and FinSA Art.36(1), with the bond governed by Swiss law and the real-property security governed by the local law of each jurisdiction where a project is located.

  3. Institutional Protection Package

    The tokenized structure combines development-finance economics with firs-ranking security over the underlying real estate, an LTV covenant, and an operational liquidity reserve.

  4. Technical Architecture

    Asseto integrates with the Sponsor’s and Issuer’s existing legal and operational structure, rather than replacing it.

  5. Digital Securities Lifecycle & Smart Contracts

    The tokenized bond is expected to run on a set of customized smart contracts covering the key stages of its lifecycle; a contract for the initial bond and primary market placement, a contract governing any secondary market activity, and a contract managing payment events such as coupon accrual and redemption at maturity.

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