Netherlands-based ING Real Estate has unveiled details of its open ended global fund of funds, Global Osiris, with ambitions to attract as much as €1 billion in capital within 18 months.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
US private equity firm Sun Capital is keeping afloat on its investment in the bankrupt retailer, thanks largely to sale-leasebacks of several of the chain’s department outlets. Sun Capital and Cerberus, which sold its stake last year, bought Mervyn's for $1.2bn in 2004.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Bahrain investment bank’s new fund will aid in the development of the first integrated logistics project in Navi Mumbai.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The London-based firm has poached a team from Capmark to manage mezzanine and preferred equity vehicles.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Polymath and industry pioneer Lord Charles Cecil retired last month from Helix Associates, the firm he founded and sold to US investment bank Jefferies.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The $37.6bn national oil fund has made commitments to Goldman Sachs’ $7.5bn infrastructure fund and Alinda’s second infrastructure vehicle. Alaska has also launched a $400m fund of funds to invest in private equity funds targeting companies valued at less than $1bn.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Andrew Pettit and William Killick, who formed Revcap in 2004 as a specialist co-investment firm, have teamed up with Kilmartin Property Group to launch a joint venture fund hoping to pick up smaller commercial assets in areas of London.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
A UK-based property company developing high-end apartments and some commercial property in Dubai plans to list a closed ended fund on the Channel Islands stock exchange focused on investing in property in Dubai and the rest of the Northern Emirates.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity firm beat its combined target of $6.5bn for the two funds. It is the first time Lone Star has raised separate, side-by-side funds for each investment strategy.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Chicago-based private equity real estate firm led by former Heitman partner Christopher Merrill and the grandsons of the Motorola founding fathers, Christopher and Michael Galvin, will expand its “recession-resistant” investments in the US education, healthcare and boat storage real estate sectors.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
