Hot on the heels of proposing Italy’s largest LBO this year, Investindustrial will take a 50% stake in Barcelona’s PortaAventura theme park.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds is buying almost 900 non-performing and sub performing loans backed by Italian residential property.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The special purpose acquisition vehicle set up by NRDC in 2007 is urging stockholders to allow it to continue operations as a REIT after failing to find a target business. The SPAC, which raised $414m in its 2007 IPO, will legally have to liquidate in October if shareholders say no.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The White Plains, New York-based firm has hired four new members of staff, including former JER fund manager Dwight Arnesen. Marti Breier, Scott Stuckman and Joel Mayer have also joined the firm.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The European trade body is the latest to stress placement agents ‘play a crucial role’ in the private investment fund industries.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The LA-based firm is preparing to “re-engage” with the creditors of Japan’s first failed REIT.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Private equity real estate funds need to start aggregating capital if they want to take part in the buying opportunity of a lifetime, according to Aviva Investors’ Ed Casal.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The $182 billion US pension will choose from Meketa Investment Group, Pension Consulting Alliance, R.V. Kuhns & Associates and Wilshire Consulting to advise its nascent infrastructure investment programme.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Left holding the debt of a struggling real estate investment? What US fund managers need to know about entering into receiverships. By Anthony Theophilos of Starr Finley
6 min read · 21 January 2013
The Dallas-based firm’s attempt to buy Japan’s first failed REIT is blocked for a second time by creditors. A rival bid from Daiwa House remains on the cards if New City can avoid liquidation.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
