The private equity firm that made its name turning around the Japanese bank has returned to bail out a beleaguered Shinsei with the largest-ever private equity deal in the Japanese banking sector.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
San Francisco-based placement agent Probitas Partners has added a new vice president in an effort to expand its real estate team.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
A new tax on carried interest would be ‘a lot bigger than just private equity’, according to Phillips Hinch, a tax specialist with the US Chamber of Commerce, which recently released the second half of its study on proposed policy changes to carried interest taxation. Hinch tells PEO's Amanda Janis why the chamber opposes a change to carried-interest tax policy.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity firm is developing two LEED-specific office buildings in the fast-growing Houston property market.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Dallas –based firm is adding to its hospitality roster with an eye to further hotel funds and investment mandates within the next two years.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Looking to increase its presence in the Southern California real estate market, Rockwood Capital has opened an office in Los Angeles—its second office in The Golden State.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
As the secondary specialist continues to expand its investment team this year, Liquid Realty has added a fund controller to join the firm’s finance group.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Having just acquired a 7.5 percent stake in alternatives giant The Carlyle Group, the Abu Dhabi government fund Mubadala is again looking to make waves with a $3bn MGM Mirage resort in the city, the first of several such projects.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
European property fund manager Cordea Savills has made three senior level hires for its Milan office, which it opened in 2005.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
In a growing trend toward ‘green’ developments, Morgan Stanley Real Estate and East West Partners have partnered on the continued development of a 1,800-acre resort nestled in the Canadian Rockies.
1 min read · 22 January 2013