Trammell Crow Meghraj, one of the largest privately held real estate services companies in India, has merged with Jones Lang LaSalle.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Global Infrastructure Partners, a venture between the two firms, has opened an office in Hong Kong and appointed a new partner to lead its Asian investment activities.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Alinta is backing a $6.66 billion takeover offer from Babcock & Brown instead of a rival bid by Macquarie, as the Australian energy utility is convinced the former offers a “high degree of completion certainty.”
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based firm will acquire a 65 percent stake in the company, which owns and operates more than 3,000 service stations across Europe.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
After almost two decades of existence, the private equity real estate industry has seen its fair share of influential personalities. But going forward, who are the rising stars that will further shape the evolution of the asset class? PERE presents a few possibilities.
10 min read · 22 January 2013
In 1999, Ric Lewis established Curzon Global Partners as a boutique European fund for AEW. Now, eight years and €15 billion later, he talks here about the firm's rapid ascension, why he set out to “wreck” European investors, and how a hole-in-one nearly cost him a car. By Robin Marriott
10 min read · 22 January 2013
Pierre Vaquier, a 14-year veteran of insurance giant AXA, has taken the helm of its institutional real estate firm, AXA REIM, and is set to announce a major strategy overhaul later this month.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
The US alternative asset investor has raised $305 million for its second private equity real estate vehicle focused on the European property markets.
4 min read · 22 January 2013
Private equity real estate secondaries firm Liquid Realty Partners has invested $286 million to acquire an interest in a US hotel portfolio.
4 min read · 22 January 2013
At a recent private equity conference on emerging markets, both the perils and potential of investing in the developed world were brought into clear focus. By Paul Fruchbom
5 min read · 22 January 2013
