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So many related companies, so much financing done in both the public and exempt markets and so much debt — enough for a filing under Companies Creditors Arrangements Act, a filing that was made public Saturday.

But that’s the state of affairs at Calgary-based Walton Edgemont Development Corporation (which went public in Canada in 2011); Walton International Group Inc. (which is privately held) and certain affiliates. In all, the group is home to “hundreds of entities,” and has attracted investors from Canada, the U.S, Europe and Asia.

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The Walton Group, has, according to its website, 35 years experience in land development and real estate investment, more than $5.1 billion in assets and over 103,000 acres of land under administration (one quarter of which is in Canada) and considers itself “one of North America’s premier land asset managers.”

Walton has residential and industrial projects in Alberta and Ontario and in five U.S. states. (Walton’s U.S. entities, its German entities, and some Canadian entities are not applicants in the CCAA filing.)