In its first deal for 15 months in the UK, The Blackstone Group is reportedly close to buying Chiswick Park business park for £480 million. The office complex is west of central London.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The Swiss giant’s global expansion continues. New York-based Karin Hallin will head up a new office in São Paolo, Brazil.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Tokyo-based private equity firm has sold the seafood restaurant chain for an undisclosed amount.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chinese capital has reportedly joined Shanghai in securing the necessary backing from China’s central government to launch a currency conversion programme for offshore LPs. Further detail on Shanghai’s QFLP scheme has also emerged.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Wall Street giant is set to bring the curtain down on its exposure to Japanese golf courses as it prepares to sell its 44.7 percent position in Accordia, the golf course operator it originally acquired in 2001.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Almost two-thirds of foreign real estate investors have billed the US as the top global market in which to invest, the highest level since 2000 and garnering six times more votes than second-placed China.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Daniel Klebes, the one-time architect of Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds investments in Japan has resigned from his current position as chief investment officer of Asia private equity real estate firm, Aetos Capital.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The European fund manager has refinanced properties in Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, and the Czech Republic leased to or anchored by supermarket giants Tesco and Carrefour
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chicago-based fund manager has taken over the $700m Transwestern Securities Management platform, including its six-member team.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
After 13 years with Westbrook Partners, Avi Banyasz will help David Bonderman’s private equity firm push further into the real estate asset class.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
