The Dubai-based investment firm, led by Sameer Al Ansari, has bolstered its public relations team.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The financial services giant’s private equity real estate arm has launched a $10 billion fundraising to take advantage of “distress and dislocation” caused by the credit crisis. Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System has committed up to $400 million to the vehicle.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Tony Thompson’s new private equity real estate firm hires another Grubb and Ellis professional, Darrell Betts, as chief investment officer and president of its Middle East operations.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
A letter sent to Apollo limited partners explains the fund’s IRR will drop only minimally if an investment in the now-bankrupt housewares giant is marked down to zero.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
It would appear that a consensus is emerging among private equity real estate professionals over when the best opportunities are to be had this year.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Al Borg Laboratory, which has 60 laboratory locations throughout Egypt, has been taken private by the UAE buyout firm.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The country’s government pension fund will invest about $650m in global private equity and real estate in the coming months.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Medical City, a Philippine hospital, has received an investment from San Francisco-based Lombard Investments.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Los Angeles-based multi-family investor IMT Capital has acquired a 253-unit townhouse and apartment complex in California’s Ventura County.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Private equity firms Colony Capital and Eurazeo plan to increase their stake in the hotel group Accor, which owns the Pullman and Ibis hotel chains, to 30 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
