The largest private retirement fund in Great Britain entered the race to buy the O2 lease, the best known entertainment in London.
Sky News has learned that the universities retirement pension program (USS) is among the bidders of the long -term income flow generated by the arena.
Retirement funds have said that a number of eminent institutional investors participated in an auction led by Eastdil, the real estate investment bank.
USS, which has participations in the British Air Traffic Service and Moto operator, the motorway station chain, is considered a serious competitor for the O2 Arena lease.
He is one of the shareholders burned by the financial implosion of Wames Water and wrote his participation at zero while a rescue agreement is negotiated.
The auction has been underway for some time, Sky News having revealed several months ago that it was put up for sale by the richest college of the University of Cambridge.
The Trinity College, which ranks among the largest British landowners, acquired the site in 2009 for 24 million pounds sterling.
The O2, which increased the shoulders of its status as “the white elephant” following its disastrous beginnings as Dome Millennium in 2000, has since become one of the main places of entertainment in the world.
Operated by Anschutz Entertainment Group, he welcomed a wide range of music, theatrical and sports events over almost a quarter of a century.
The opportunity to acquire the 999 -year -old lease is likely to lead to an agreement later concluded in the spring.
The Trinity College, founded by Henry VIII in 1546, bought the O2 lease at Lend Lease and Quintain, the real estate companies that had taken control of the Dome Millennium site in 2002 for nothing.
A spokesperson for the USS refused to comment.