January 3 – Money seems to come as easy to Lionel Messi as scoring goals in the MLS.
The Argentine, Inter Miami and FIFA favourite has taken his Spanish real estate investment company, Edificio Rostower, public on Spain’s alternative Portfolio Stock Exchange.
The company debuted at a price of €57.4 per share, giving it a valuation of €223.2 million.
The former Barcelona star has the bulk of its properties in Catalonia where Messi lived for 20 years. Included in the listing aresix MiM hotels , operated by the Majestic chain, located in Andorra, Baqueira, Ibiza, Mallorca, Sitges and Sotogrande, as well as an additional hotel in Vall d’Aran.
Also included is the Rostower Building, a six-storey, 4,000-square-metre property in Barcelona that that is a mix of offices and commercial premises, as well as a 2,500-square-metre industrial warehouse in Sitges, currently rented to a supermarket chain.
A restaurant in Castelldefels, where Messi lived, is included, as well as various residential properties in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, Cala Tarida, Paris and London.
Messi is the company’s president while his wife Antonela Roccuzzo is the first vice-president, and Alfonso Nebot, who manages his assets, is the second vice-president. Ramón Adell, an economist and director of Naturgy, and Augusto Piñel, partner of the law firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, who advised Messi on the IPO, are also on the board.
In terms of Messi’s ‘corporate’ structure, he has opened a ‘family office’ in Andorra where he owns a hotel and restaurant, as well as another office in the US whoch has four employees focussed on diversifying his investment portfolio, which includes startups through his firm Play Time.
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