The firm, originally founded as a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus in 2004, has launched its first discretionary fund, Racebrook Capital Partners. The vehicle is focused on distressed debt and equity opportunities in North America, particularly non- and sub-performing whole loans.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Interviewed at the PERE Breakfast Club: ULI 2009, Jeffrey Barclay, managing director of ING Clarion and Ed Casal, CIO of Aviva Investors’ real estate multi-manager group, judge the risks and opportunities facing commercial real estate investors.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
A debt-for-equity swap has given the Connecticut-based firm a substantial stake in the former New York Times headquarters. The building was purchased in 2007 by Africa Israel USA, the stateside subsidiary of billionaire entrepreneur Lev Leviev’s real estate investment firm
2 min read · 21 January 2013
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (at a Private Equity Firm About to Relocate to Sark)
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Fresh from a $1.9bn fund close, the private equity and real estate firm has doubled the size of platform company Care Aspirations with a bolt-on deal.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The London banking and private equity firm is buying a prime city centre office in central Moscow as it gears up for an investment push in Europe
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based private equity real estate manager paid $54.7m in cash for the 415-unit apartment building in Denver – $20m less than RREEF paid in 2005.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Seven of the 10 most active real estate markets in the world in the past year were found in China, led by Beijing and Shanghai. The three most active global buyers were all Chinese development companies.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The London-based alternative asset management firm has completed a first close for the vehicle which will invest in debt as well as originate new loans.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Invista Real Estate Investment Management has secured a US institutional investor as cornerstone to its Big Organge Self Storage Fund which operates in Hong Kong and Singapore.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
