(Adds details about loan balance in paras 1, 2, transaction
closure in para 3)
May 22 (Reuters) - Regional lender PacWest Bancorp
PACW.O said on Monday it entered into an agreement to sell a
portfolio of 74 real estate construction loans with an aggregate
principal balance of around $2.6 billion currently outstanding
to a subsidiary of Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc KW.N .
PacWest said in a filing it will also sell an additional six
real estate construction loans with an aggregate principal
balance of approximately $363 million to Kennedy-Wilson.
The transaction is expected to close in multiple tranches
during the second quarter and early part of the third quarter of
2023.
(Reporting by Mehnaz Yasmin in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna
Chandra Eluri)
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