The fresh acquisitions include a hotel in Stockholm, marking the first time Invesco has purchased a hotel in Scandinavia for its fund. Invesco is currently building a hotel platform across Europe, with investments having reached €460m by June.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Two private investment firms have joined forces to buy structured debt investments in Europe via a new closed ended vehicle which is being seeded with €50 million of equity.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The seller of the interest has not been named, though Liquid Realty said the fund manager focuses on core office properties in the West End of London.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
One Equity’s packaging firm Schoeller Arca Systems, which counts Coca Cola and Heineken among its clients, has sold the two manufacturing facilities to NYSE-quoted real estate firm, W. P. Carey.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The driver of the Blackstone IPO has ended his tenure with Citi after 23 years, leaving behind $19.3m in deferred cash and stock compensation but bringing with him a golden Rolodex and deep knowledge and contacts within the private equity and real estate industries.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Dutch bank has raised $85m for the first close of India Agri Business Fund, with IFC, FMO and DEG committing $20m each.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The public pension looks to alternatives to drive returns, ploughing $825m into private equity, real estate and hedge funds.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management has been looking to go large in the real estate space, and it won’t be with Apollo Real Estate Advisors.
2 min read · 31 January 2013
The chief executive officer of Dune Real Estate and founder of Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds will take over as chairman of the US Real Estate Roundtable next year. Over the coming year, the body will lobby on issues including energy, taxation and the US economy.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Apollo Global Management, the Leon Black-led alternative investment giant, has been actively recruiting real estate professionals to lead a new real estate arm. The move could present a branding challenge to a separate firm called Apollo Real Estate Advisors, in which Black owns a minority stake.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
