Reinsurance Group signs up to 22 Bishopsgate
Reinsurance Group of America has agreed a 15-year lease with AXA Investment Managers to take up the 45th floor of 22 Bishopsgate, EC2.
The US life and health reinsurance company has taken up 27,000 sq ft and is due to move into the 1.4m sq ft building in the middle of next year.
The 62-storey skyscraper, currently under construction, is due to be handed over for fit-out in late 2019.
Reinsurance Group of America has agreed a 15-year lease with AXA Investment Managers to take up the 45th floor of 22 Bishopsgate, EC2.
The US life and health reinsurance company has taken up 27,000 sq ft and is due to move into the 1.4m sq ft building in the middle of next year.
The 62-storey skyscraper, currently under construction, is due to be handed over for fit-out in late 2019.
CBRE and JLL acted for 22 Bishopsgate, while Carter Jonas acted for Reinsurance Group of America.
Simon Wainwright, managing director, UK and Ireland at Reinsurance Group, said: “RGA’s UK team is delighted to be moving to what will surely become one of London’s iconic buildings.”
Harry Badham, UK development director at AXA IM – Real Assets, commented: “We look forward to welcoming Reinsurance Group of America to the 22 Bishopsgate community when they move in next year.
“We are also progressing negotiations with a diverse range of potential occupiers who we are confident will join our growing 22 Bishopsgate community in the near future.”
In September last year EG reported that AXA Investment Managers was itself planning to take up 65,000 sq ft at 22 Bishopsgate. In March EG reported that US stock exchange Nasdaq was in advanced talks to lease 25,000 sq ft.
EG also revealed earlier this month that insurance firm Aspen, one of the first companies that was expected to move into 22 Bishopsgate, had pulled out of preletting 70,000 sq ft.
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