Speyer is a major collector of contemporary art and a champion of new artists.
Murdoch and Speyer dominated the panel discussion, especially Murdoch, who was feisty at times.
Tishman Speyer has recently completed three Rio projects, including a glass paneled Ventura Corporate Towers.
The two exchanged cellphone numbers, and Mr. Speyer later met with Vanke executives in China.
Rob Speyer, 43 years old, worked as a reporter before ultimately joining the family business in 1995.
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His Tishman Speyer is building its second condo tower in downtown San Francisco with Chinese partner Vanke.
"We really bonded, " Mr. Speyer said of his breakfast at his Rockefeller Center offices with Mr. Wang.
Also, some of Tishman Speyer's top-of-the-market investments, other than Stuyvesant Town, remain money-losers.
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Mr. Speyer had bad luck as well, most notably the sinkhole of property values that suddenly opened in 2007.
Real-estate developers such as Hines and Tishman Speyer, and local giants such as Multiplan SA are also piling in.
In San Francisco, where a booming technology sector has pushed up rents, Tishman Speyer Properties, also joining with J.
He said he dealt with Michelle Adams, a managing director at Tishman Speyer and treasurer for Save New York.
As for future deals, Mr. Speyer said nothing is on the immediate horizon.
Tishman Speyer was formed in 1978 by Jerry Speyer and his father-in-law Robert Tishman, of the prominent Tishman real-estate family.
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Speyer, a minority partner to Whitehall, which owns the Depression era complex of office buildings sitting in the middle of Manhattan.
"Outstanding companies need to have a global perspective, " said Vanke Chairman Wang Shi when the Tishman Speyer deal was announced.
In the second half of the year, it signed more than double that amount, 4.8 million, according to co-CEO Rob Speyer.
Over the decades, Tishman Speyer has purchased high-profile buildings throughout the world, such as Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.
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Speyer started the firm with his late father-in-law Robert Tishman in 1978.
"From their perspective, they want to use this as an opportunity to learn how residential development happens in the U.S., " Mr. Speyer said.
Tishman Speyer still mostly buys buildings with significant amounts of vacant space or departing tenants, meaning it could take losses if the economy turns.
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Mr. Bagli's strength is in crunching numbers, and he makes clear that even without a credit collapse Mr. Speyer would have come up short.
According to documents by Tishman Speyer, it expects 40% of the project to be sold to Chinese investors and Chinese migrants, Mr. Wang said.
Other companies bidding to develop the site include Tishman Speyer, Extell Development, Brookfield Properties and The Durst Organization in concert with Vornado Realty Trust.
Speyer's second wife Katherine Farley runs things in Brazil and China.
Speyer just committed the financial equivalent of a Hail Mary pass.
Real estate mogul Jerry Speyer is the ultimate New York City power player, but much of the firm's recent activity is in China, Brazil and Europe.
In 2006, Tishman Speyer LP, which also controls Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building, and investment firm Black Rock bought Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village from Metlife.
By rebounding, Tishman Speyer has joined a long list of developers that were able to rebuild their empires and prestige after running into problems during down markets.
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