The Los Angeles-based private equity firm has purchased a 17% stake in the Nasdaq-listed organic foods grocer, which has struggled amid cutbacks in consumer spending. Leonard Green is investing from its fifth private equity fund, which closed last year on $5.3bn.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Chicago-based US property investment manager is reportedly planning to pick up bargain properties in the UK, with an expected close scheduled for the first quarter of next year.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
While fund managers have been busy raising distressed property vehicles, the bitter pill to swallow is that some LPs are unable to allocate equity to such funds at the moment, according to research by a prominent private equity real estate expert.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The China-focused fund will invest in residential and commercial sectors to capitalise on the country’s real estate growth.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Vietnam real estate investment firm says it plans to launch a $400m property fund at the end of January next year, according to reports, arguing the wind has been taken ‘out of the sails’ of property developers in the country.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The fund is the GCC region’s first sharia-compliant mezzanine vehicle and will provide financing to a mixed-used development in Qatar.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
China Everbright Holdings intends to establish the real estate fund before June next year, and will coinvest up to $50m. The fund will be managed by its new private equity arm, the Alam Group, which will be renamed Everbright Alam.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Though the results reflect a slowed investment pace constrained by bank lending, the listed infrastructure fund headlined £50.3m in profits. Managing partner Michael Queen said 3i Infrastructure wants to be part of a Gatwick Airport deal.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The UK fund manager has announced a partnership with Saudi Arabian banking firm Watan Investments, which would see the duo raise funds in the Gulf region to target regional opportunities as well as investments in the UK and Europe.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
A hospitality investment fund set up by three Arab Gulf banks plans to raise $300m by the first quarter of next year, according to reports. It has already signed agreements for six deals in the Middle East and India.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
