
EUROCASTLE INVESTMENT LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. BACKGROUND
2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Interest income
Interest income is recognised in the income statement as it accrues, taking into account the effective yield of the asset or an applicable floating rate. Interest
income includes the amortisation of any discount or premium or other differences between the initial carrying amount of an interest bearing instrument and
its amount at maturity calculated on an effective interest rate basis.
Eurocastle Investment Limited (“Eurocastle”, the "Company") was incorporated in Guernsey, Channel Islands on 8 August 2003 and commenced its
operations on 21 October 2003. Eurocastle is a Euro denominated Guernsey closed-end investment company listed on Euronext Amsterdam (formerly listed
on the London Stock Exchange) regulated by the Nederlands Authority for Financial Markets (“AFM”), which is also now its home state regulator as a
result of Brexit. Eurocastle is subject to EU transparency rules as a result of its listing on an EU regulated market and, consequently, shareholders are
required to notify Eurocastle and the AFM when their holding of the issued share capital and/or of the voting rights in Eurocastle reaches, exceeds or falls
below certain thresholds, whereby the lowest threshold is 3%.
Basis of preparation
Eurocastle is externally managed by its investment manager, FIG LLC (the “Manager”). The Manager is indirectly owned by affiliates of Mubadala
Investment Company PJSC (“Mubadala”) and by certain members of FIG LLC management and employees. The Manager continues to operate as an
independent investment manager under the Fortress brand, with full autonomy over investment processes and decision making, personnel and operations.
Eurocastle has entered into a management agreement (the “Management Agreement”) under which the Manager advises the Company on various aspects of
its business and manages its day-to-day operations, subject to the supervision of the Company’s Board of Directors. For its services, the Manager receives
an annual management fee and incentive compensation (as well as reimbursement for expenses, including expenses of certain employees providing asset
management and finance services), as described in note 16. The Company has no ownership interest in the Manager.
Until December 2019, the activities of the Company included investing indirectly in Italian performing and non-performing loans (''PLs'' / ''NPLs''),
distressed loan assets and other credit receivables, Italian loan servicing platforms, real estate related assets and other related businesses in Italy. On 18
November 2019 the Board of Directors (“Board”) announced a plan to realise the majority of the Company’s assets in order to accelerate the return of value
to the Company’s shareholders (the “Realisation Plan”). On 8 July 2022, the Company announced the relaunch of its investment activity and will initially
focus on opportunistic real estate in Greece with a plan to expand across Southern Europe, where the Manager has an extensive footprint and a long track
record investing in this asset class (the ''New Investment Strategy''). The Company’s New Investment Strategy seeks to leverage the Manager’s deep
knowledge of the sector, which offers significant investment opportunities in the current market cycle.
Significant estimates and judgements
In preparing these financial statements, management has made judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of the accounting policies
and the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, income and expenses. Actual results may differ from these estimates. Estimates and underlying assumptions
are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to estimates are recognised prospectively.
The area involving significant judgements is:
- valuation of investment in the Fund - refer to note 10
Following the classification of the Company as an investment entity under IFRS 10 in July 2017, the Company does not consolidate the entities it controls
and therefore fair values all of its investments (whether through subsidiaries or joint ventures). These separate financial statements of the Company are its
only financial statements.
Following the announcement of the Realisation Plan in 2019, the Directors have assessed, and continue to have a reasonable expectation, that the Company
will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due. The Directors have reviewed the Company’s processes to control those risks to
which the Company is exposed, as disclosed in note 3, as well as reviewing the annual budget, including the additional reserves set aside as part of the
Realisation Plan. As a result of the Realisation Plan, no contractual commitments have become onerous and no commitments for further realisation costs
have been made. Therefore, no provisions have been recorded in the financial statements for the future costs of the business. The Directors have determine
that there is no material uncertainty that casts doubt on the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Directors have also considered the above in
light of the New Investment Strategy. As a result of this, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue
in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union on a
going concern basis and under the historical cost basis of accounting, except for investments at fair value through profit and loss, which are measuredat
fair value. These financial statements are also prepared in accordance with Guernsey Company Law.
The functional currency of the Company is the Euro (EUR). This determination is based on the primary economic environment in which the entity
operates, where the majority of transactions, including revenues and expenses, are denominated in EUR. Consequently, all financial information presented
in these financial statements is expressed in Euro.
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