Half of UAE-based Khaleej Finance and Investment’s $200m Indian private equity fund will go into the country’s real estate sector.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has struck a knockout blow in the battle for UK health and beauty chain Alliance Boots this morning, after sweetening its bid to £11bn and increasing the stake it controls to about 25 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, the property investment arm of investment bank Goldman Sachs, is acquiring a four-casino portfolio from Carl Icahn’s American Real Estate Partners for $1.3bn.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
JER Partners is acquiring upscale lodging REIT Highland Hospitality in a $2bn deal.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Wall Street bank’s real estate arm is reportedly buying 10 European hotels as it ramps up exposure to the global hospitality sector.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The listed Paris-based private equity group has wrapped up €500m in commitments for its first vehicle for third-party investors.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Last month, a group of reporters gathered at the New York City headquarters of a large investment bank for an off-the-record discussion on the growth in the alternative asset industry. Journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times were in attendance, as were members of slightly less august publications. And given the relevance of the topic—two weeks earlier, The Blackstone Group had announced its intentions to go public—the bankers addressed an audience hungry for information.
3 min read · 01 February 2013
Private equity real estate firm JER Partners and Formation Capital are increasing their bid for the long-term health care company to $1.7bn.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Charlie McCreevy, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, has reiterated his support for the private equity industry, while conceding that the industry has a lot of work to do to convince sceptics that it is a force for good.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Japanese ski resorts, hit hard by the country’s long recession, are bouncing back. And private equity real estate investors are showing interest
2 min read · 22 January 2013
