Introduction to AES

Asset Enhancement Services LLC is a Nevada limited liability company with operating headquarters near Los Angeles and a regional office in Tokyo. AES was formed in 1993 to develop minimal-loss exit strategies for Japanese owners of "troubled" US real estate. To enhance our capabilities, our interests are limited to significant commercial and hospitality properties. AES also purchases and sells properties alone and/or with partners.

AES's core management comprises top Japanese and American business, banking, and real estate executives. With their support teams, AES commands an effective international network of analysts, facilitators, brokers, and professionals whose credentials are second to none. The Company's executive staff and resource pool are an unrivaled combination of experience, talent and expertise--in both Japanese and American business arenas. AES's team includes major role players in the Japanese real estate and international investment "Bubble" era. One, a former Japanese banking executive is well-known and respected throughout the international financial community. Another was head of a world-class investment banker's Tokyo real estate division. To provide a full menu of services, AES coordinates a strategic alliance of several organizations united in a common effort to achieve success for AES's clients. These include world-class professional firms, property managers, hoteliers, etc., all of whom are held in the highest esteem by their clients and peers alike.

AES is a full-service, international real estate consulting group. It meets the needs of Japanese and American investors seeking the sale and purchase of Japanese-owned real estate. AES provides it's clients with all traditional and several unique services and advantages to facilitate their real estate objectives.

To the Japanese sell-side, AES is a one-stop center that understands and fulfills their real estate divestiture needs. On the other hand, AES brings it's American buy-side clients a thorough knowledge of the myriad Japanese legal, business, and cultural issues attendant to every Japanese-American real estate transaction. To both sides, AES provides all other services relating to the divestiture and acquisition of Japanese properties. These include property procurement, introductions, deal structuring, negotiations, legal and accounting activities, due diligence activities, deal facilitation, and ultimate deal consummation.

Japanese and American clients both view AES as the ideal interface and liaison between themselves, their experts and their transaction counterparts. AES has demonstrated an uncanny ability to develop strategies maximizing net sale proceeds while simultaneously maximizing the return to investors. Proprietary AES strategies can be employed that allow American investors to purchase Japanese properties at traditionally-derived market values while relieving the seller of any mortgage deficiency balance, tax or other penalties due to the sale, or any further encumbrance relating to the property. For more information on these strategies, You can draw on our expertise by browsing the links on the Articles and Information page, where you will also find information relevant to your decision making process.

To get an idea of the significant number of Japanese issues impacting your transactions, glance through AES's white paper Japanese Legal Issues Pertaining to Real Estate Lending article. And, for an intriguing and demonstrative illustration of AES's clear understanding and knowledge of the issues surrounding today's multitude of non-transactions, read Case Study of a Failed Purchase article on the same page. (For those who read Japanese, you will find AES's white paper Investor Expectations Relating to Disclosure Documentation interesting and informative.)

If your interests are consistent with our capabilities, philosophies and policies, we urge you to give AES serious thought and consideration. AES is uniquely positioned to become your key to achieving success in your Japanese-American real estate transactions. The process may be as simple as you defining your acquisition objectives and allowing AES to employ its skills, thorough Japanese business acumen, and extensive Japanese network to achieve your goals.

Before engaging AES, it is essential for you to understand AES's philosophies, capabilities, and strategies as it is important that you embrace our situational paradigm as your own. We ask that you carefully examine our textual material by following the blue links above.