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Chesapeake Lodging Trust postpones IPO

December 8, 2009

Chesapeake Lodging Trust, a specialty REIT that had planned to acquire upper upscale hotel properties, postponed its IPO on Tuesday because of poor market conditions. The newly formed company had been hoping to raise $250 million in its IPO as well as $41 million in a concurrent private placement to Hyatt and BAMCO. J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank were set to be the lead underwriters on the deal.