Following last week’s suspension of trading in its open-ended International Property Fund, UK real estate fund manager New Star is in talks with banks over a reported debt for equity swap.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The European private equity real estate group will raise a fund of funds focused on retail, commercial and residential developments in second and third tier cities in India and China. ING hopes to hold a $250 million first close early 2009.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Wall Street firm, whose European property fund business is based in London, has paid £32 million for Georges Retail Park in Leicester, UK.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Why the collapse of the UK retailer, with its 800 stores, is unlikely to arouse much interest from private equity real estate funds.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The US-based growth investor has brought on Fernando Marques Oliveira as managing director to spearhead the firm’s ramped-up investment activity in Latin America. General Atlantic last month invested in Brazilian healthcare insurance group Qualicorp.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Why the collapse of venerable UK high street retailer Woolworths with its 800 stores is unlikely to arouse much interest from private equity real estate funds.
3 min read · 31 January 2013
The Washington DC-based private equity giant has invested in China’s education sector, in a week that has also seen the firm close its Warsaw office and Sydney-based Asian leveraged finance group.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The second-largest pension fund in the UK is increasing its headcount as it seeks to grow its private equity allocation.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The British Opportunities Fund managed by Managing Partners Limited says it has bought 18 homes in one particular street in Portsmouth because prices have dropped up to 40 percent in some cases.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
A firm set up by Perry Kurash, who cut his teeth at private property company Topland, has established a corporate finance house with four others to source Middle Eastern capital looking for a home in property.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
