MARLTON, N.J. and MADRID, Spain, Dec 21, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that a subsidiary company, Gerens Hill International S.A., has established a new majority-owned subsidiary company, Gerens Hill Gestion de Activos, S.A., that will be providing real estate asset management services.
Gerens Hill Gestion de Activos has entered into a three-year management agreement with another newly-formed company, Aliancia Zero, S.A., a real estate investment company entirely owned by nine Spanish financial institutions that has been organized with initial real estate assets of approximately $400 million.
"Gerens Hill has strong relationships with many of the largest financial institutions in Spain," said David L. Richter, Hill's President and Chief Operating Officer. "Gerens Hill initiated the development of Aliancia to help provide solutions to these institutions for the current property market," Richter added.
Gerens Hill is also moving forward on the creation of the next real estate investment company and has estimated to reach in the next several months a total volume of approximately $1.4 billion in real estate assets under management.
Hill International, with 2,300 employees in 80 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management and construction claims and consulting services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the 8th largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.
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