The Dallas-based real estate firm has taken on Oliver Georg and Olaf Fortmann from HCI Capital to run the operation. Behringer and HCI formed a $1.3bn alliance to invest in European real estate in 2006.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Zurich-based firm has hired the former head of GPT Halverton in Germany to help grow the business.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Private fund tax experts were pleasantly surprised last month to see proposed legislation come out of the US Congress designed to encourage fund managers to stay onshore.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The escalating credit crisis has claimed another company after Ciena Capital, the real estate lender backed by fund manager Allied Capital, filed for bankruptcy protection saying the value of its assets had ‘significantly’ deteriorated.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Following the defeat of the White House’s $700bn financial rescue package, economist and LECG director, Alan Madian, has argued the proposed legislation should only buy mortgage securities backed by real assets and provide for direct infusions of capital.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The troubled German real estate lender today clarified its situation, suggesting comments by the German finance ministry had been misinterpreted.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The London-based private equity real estate firm has taken on a former managing director at Fortress Investment Group, a development director at Lordship Estates and a general counsel.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Gulf investor is teaming up with a Chinese developer to target $6bn of real estate projects in the country, at the same time as launching a $1.5bn China-focused private equity vehicle.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The mid-market buyout firm has agreed to a refinancing package – increasingly rare given credit dislocation – for sportswear brand Odlo on terms ‘very similar’ to the senior debt agreement put in place at the time of its original acquisition in 2006.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Palo Alto venture firm has made its sixth investment in India by teaming with Reliance to back e-transaction company Suvidhaa.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
