Barry Sternlicht’s firm has led a consortium of investors in the purchase of loans made to condominiums by the Chicago-based bank, taking advantage of an attractive financing package offered by the failed bank’s receivers.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The founder of private equity advisory firm Aldus Equity, Saul Meyer, has admitted to having knowingly engaged in pay-to-play corruption in New York and New Mexico.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The university is offloading investments including private equity and real estate to raise cash, according to the Wall Street Journal.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The drastically altered real estate opportunity requires skill sets, including restructuring and asset management, that are not sufficiently in place at many fund managers, argued participants at a roundtable discussion organised by PERE magazine.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
SeaWorld is among the theme parks Anheuser-Busch InBev may sell to the mega-firm. Meanwhile, CVC has reportedly increased the equity ratio in its €1.3bn bid for the brewer's CEE assets.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Jeff Giller is leaving the San Francisco-based secondaries firm after four years. Josh Cleveland and Brendan MacDonald have already left. The departure triggers a key man clause in Liquid’s $570m LRP Fund IV.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The French energy giant said it is considering selling its UK electricity distribution business in order to reduce its debt level by €5bn. The grid serves the London, the South-East and East region of the UK, supplying around eight million households.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Despite Prudential Real Estate Investors' global heft, chief executive officer Allen Smith believes the firm is as nimble, and flexible, as any boutique operation. By Zoe Hughes
10 min read · 21 January 2013
Elliott Broidy, head of Markstone Capital, was not found to be uncooperative and has been given more time to meet SEC requests for information and testimony.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The real estate investment firm has paid $167.5m for a 49.9% interest in two Macerich malls in New Jersey and Arizona. GI Partners closed a similar deal last month, with plans to target other REITs in need of recapitalisation.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
