Property manager Guy Morrell has taken the post, leading the business in the UK and MENA region.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The addition of Simon Samuels, head of Morgan Stanley’s UK real estate loan origination business, is one of two new hires at the London firm as it also reveals the acquisition of several London pubs and the sale of a West End office investment.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The New York firm has asked Trent Vichie of Macquarie Securities to lead Blackstone’s newly unveiled developed-infrastructure business. Vichie, an Australian national, was instrumental in the Chicago Skyway transaction, a landmark US toll road privatization.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Investors from outside Europe, including private equity real estate firms, could be affected by an amendment to Germany's Foreign Trade Act approved today. The ruling is aimed at sovereign wealth funds but lawyers say it complicates private equity-style investing.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The New York firm has asked Macquarie Securities' Trent Vichie to lead its newly unveiled developed-infrastructure business. Vichie, an Australian national, was instrumental in the Chicago Skyway transaction, a landmark US toll road privatisation.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Former IBM chief Louis Gerstner will step down as the global private equity and real estate firm’s chairman after five years. He will remain a senior advisor to the firm’s Asia, Europe, Japan and US buyout funds.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US’s largest pension fund is to increase its infrastructure allocation to 3 percent, or $8.3 billion, over the next two years.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
As the New York-based private equity real estate firm prepares its European debt fund, it has added additional capital to its US debt vehicle.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The troubled London investment bank and property investor is putting more than 200 investment properties up for sale. Administrative receiver BDO Stoy Hayward says it has received several hundred enquiries from interested purchasers.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Texas private equity real estate firm formerly known as N3 Capital Partners has renamed itself after a landmark bridge in Austin, where it is relocating its headquarters. The firm, which closed its debut fund on $250m last year, is targeting commercial and residential real estate as well as land assets.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
