The European private equity real estate firm has partnered with India’s Nichani Holdings for an Indian property vehicle that will seek capital from the large non-resident Indian population in Oman.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The real estate division of Bahrain-founded Investcorp has started to invest its latest US debt vehicle by acquiring $210m of junior and mezzanine loans.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Boston-based private equity firm could lose almost half its investment in US discount clothing store Steve & Barry’s after hedge fund Bay Harbour submitted a stalking horse bid. The retailer filed for Chapter 11 protection last month, two years after TA Associates paid a reported $320m for roughly half the company.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is seeking up to three private equity and real estate advisors to manage its new $5.5bn alternatives ‘pot’. The pension fund, which represents 44 million US citizens, is branching out into alternatives in a bid to reduce its $14bn deficit.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The new vehicle , already 20 percent invested, will invest in high specification commercial premises in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and China.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Russia-based asset management firm has held a first close for its follow-up real estate fund. The first vehicle raised $130m last year, for which all the capital has been invested. The latest fund is expected to close on $300m in November.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
GE’s former managing director for the UK will be heading up the firm’s equity investments in the Americas, including its investments in Canada, Mexico and South America.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The property investment arm of the Government of Singapore has purchased a minority stake in Mexico Retail Properties, an affiliate of Denver, Colorado-based private equity real estate firm Black Creek Group.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The global asset management company will invest a quarter of the fund in agricultural land.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Australia’s largest railway and port operator has decided to not allow the US private equity firms to conduct due diligence needed to finalise a bid. The initial offer from TPG and GIP ‘undervalues the business', the company has said.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
