The Mumbai private equity firm has made its fourth investment from its debut fund to help scale up the operations of Vishwa Infrastructures & Services.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US’ second largest pension fund has allocated $1bn to the growing asset class with California’s infrastructure needs to be given preference.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings latest appointment is a member of the wealthy and influential Swedish industrial Wallenberg family, dubbed the 'Royal Family of Swedish business.'
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Boca Raton-based private investment firm has acquired two coated-recycled board mills in Pennsylvania and Indiana from a subsidiary of the Graphic Packaging Holding Company.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Frank Scavone has joined the Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm to develop new investment programs for the firm. The appointment follows a recent string of real estate appointments in the firm’s US and European operations.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Global Infrastructure Partners and energy company Fortistar have acquired the bankrupt Texas power generation plant, Channelview, after US courts approved the deal last month.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The project, one of Blackstone’s first investments in renewables, would construct roughly 80 wind farms off the German island of Helgoland, according to media reports.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Millennium Group, a Hong Kong-based real estate investment firm, has partnered with Cambodia’s biggest mobile phone operator to build resorts, casinos and an airport on an island off the coast.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The direct real estate business of Fidelity International, a subsidiary of the US institutional asset manager Fidelity, has hired Aymeric de Seresin from Jones Lang LaSalle. De Seresin will focus on France and Spain in particular.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Emerging markets in Asia are very much on the private equity real estate map as fund managers channel significantly more capital to the region. The first half of 2008 saw funds target $30.4bn through dedicated Asia funds focusing on countries from China to Cambodia and India. By mid-year 2007 just $11.5bn was being raised for Asia-focused funds.
2 min read · 22 January 2013