If the investment bank hits its target it would surpass the current high-water mark, the $5.3 billion fund raised by The Blackstone Group this summer.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Paul Simmons has joined the New York-based private equity real estate firm as a partner focused on acquisitions and business development, with a particular emphasis on both the domestic market and Mexico.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The investment bank has appointed one of the biggest names in UK property to sit on a newly created advisory council to its European private equity real estate division.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may be turning a new leaf. After giving up his pursuit of WMDs, the one-time enemy of the West is sponsoring a new real estate development on the country’s northeastern coast.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The developer 2006-11-01 Staff Writer When the US real estate market collapsed in the late 1980s, many private investors, to say nothing of national governments, were caught in the headlights. Eugene Golub, however, entered the fray almost immediately: Golub & Company, a Chicago-based developer, became t
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The gatekeeper 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Nori Gerardo Lietz is someone you should be nice to—at least if you're an opportunity fund manager.<br /> <br /> As one of the most respected pension fund consultants in the world, Gerardo Lietz wields enormous influence over where institutional investor
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The rebel 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Though Richard Georgi is infamous for his brash, hard-charging manner—a former colleague once told <italic>The Independent:</italic>“He's a nice guy but I wouldn't invite him to my birthday party. And if I did I would warn everyone first”—he has nonetheless reach
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The independent 2006-11-01 Staff Writer In just eight years, Wesley Edens has built New York-based Fortress into one of the most respected firms in the private equity, real estate and distressed investing arenas with more than $24 billion in equity capital under management. A number of pension fund consultan
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The activist 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Some LPs prefer to sit back and let private equity real estate fund managers invest their money without much oversight. Others take a more hands-on role. And a select few, like JP Morgan's Joanne Douvas, redefine what it means to be a limited partner.<br /> <br
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The mentor 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Over more than 40 years, the professional career of Neil Bluhm has played out, in some respects, like a morality play in three acts. First came the rise to fame and fortune as the cofounder, along with his childhood friend Judd Malkin, of JMB Realty, one of the largest real
1 min read · 23 January 2013
