The fund being raised by CCB International aims to bridge the health inequality gap between the country’s urban and rural populations.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Lehman Brothers Private Equity Partners, which is unaffiliated with the collapsed investment bank, saw its losses for the year nearly double during the month of October.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
In line with other real estate firms, Axa Real Estate Investment Managers plans to grow its property debt investment business quickly given the opportunities likely to arise from banks holding investments on their balance sheets.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
A company called PILinvests, which is owned by Australia’s Valad Property Group, is raising a closed-ended fund of funds to invest in the European vehicles of its parent.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Peter DiCorpo joins the Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm as chief operating officer. It follows CBRE Investors' appointment last month of former GE Real Estate executive, Shaun O’Connor.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Blackstone was the largest buyer of office properties globally between 2003 and mid-2008, according to a new book based on PERE’s list of the top 30 private equity real estate firms in the world. The firm bought more than 159 million square feet of office space during the period totaling $45bn.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The California-based placement agent, Probitas, also estimates that $21.5bn has been raised for infrastructure in the first nine months of 2008, less than the $34.3bn raised last year.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Jesús Olmos Clavijo, former CEO of Spanish utility Endesa, will report to Marc Lipschultz, KKR’s global head of energy and infrastructure and work alongside Simon Hipperson, managing director in its European infrastructure team in London.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US firm is deploying part of its latest global fund to establish a joint venture with Longbow Real Estate Capital to invest in UK debt and property company recapitalisations.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The New York-based private equity firm said it is waiting for real estate valuations to decline further before beginning to invest the capital. However, Blackstone’s real estate portfolio has been written down by 10% owing to the market turmoil.
2 min read · 22 January 2013