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BOSTON-STAG Capital Partners is out to conquer Europe. Thelocally based real estate investment firm has opened an office inLondon and will add a Munich location by the second quarter tohandle the more than $200 million in investments the company plansto make in Europe over the next year, according to CEO BenButcher."We're very excited about the prospects in Europe," Butchertells GlobeSt.com, noting that the firm will employ the samestrategy it uses in the US to acquire single-tenant net leasedindustrial assets. That strategy has paid off handsomely for STAG,which has grown to 97 US properties since starting about four yearsago.

Butcher says he expects the company to spend 100 euros, or justover $200 million, to build its European portfolio with most ofthose assets concentrated in Germany, where STAG plans to open anoffice in the second quarter of 2007.