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How Oaktree captured Evergrande’s castle

How Oaktree captured Evergrande’s castle

Howard Marks’ $US161 billion fund has control of two prize assets in China after defaults by the world’s most indebted developer.

On a sprawling undeveloped wetland in northern Hong Kong, one of America’s most formidable distressed-debt investors last week upended China’s biggest restructuring by capturing “the Castle”.

Oaktree Capital, one of the oldest specialists in chasing companies for unpaid debts, seized a vast plot of land that symbolises the folly of Chinese property developer Evergrande’s meteoric ambitions before it collapsed under its $US300 billion ($424 billion) debt load.

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