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RREEF sets sail

The global real estate investment manager has bought a minority stake in the ports business of private UK property group Peel Holdings.

2 min read · 23 January 2013

Starwood appoints Whitbread man

Hiring Desmond Taljaard has stoked talks of Starwood launching a takeover of the publicly traded UK leisure group.

6 min read · 23 January 2013

Gateway to luxury

The Four Seasons hotel chain, one of the last publicly traded luxury hotel brands, will likely find itself under very wealthy new ownership.

4 min read · 23 January 2013

HEI beefs up

Ted Darnall, a veteran of Starwood Hotels, has joined the hospitality-focused firm as a partner and will help invest its $425m second vehicle.

4 min read · 23 January 2013

Warburg Pincus gets real

The private equity titan and long-time real estate investors has raised $1.2bn for its first vehicle specifically dedicated to real estate.

4 min read · 23 January 2013

Macquarie in €240 million Polish homes mission

Macquarie Global Property Advisors has become the latest private equity real estate firm to plunge into Poland’s residential sector amid rising wages and the growth in mortgage lending.

2 min read · 23 January 2013

The Z-factor

Sam Zell recently made headlines when Equity Office was acquired in the largest private equity real estate deal ever. But Zell has been making headlines for the past 40 years. Always opinionated, never boring, Zell sat down with PERE for an interview earlier this year.

3 min read · 23 January 2013

Blackstone to raise additional equity for EOP takeover

Though details remain sketchy, the private equity firm will need to secure additional capital in order to fund the $3.2 billion equity check for Equity Office.

3 min read · 23 January 2013

Blackstone seals world’s biggest ever private equity deal

The US buyout firm is taking over Sam Zell’s US real estate investment trust Equity Office Properties Trust amid warnings that the collapse of the large buyout in all sectors of private equity is “inevitable”.

3 min read · 23 January 2013

PEI profiles ‘30 most influential’ lawyers

Private Equity International has announced in its November issue a global list of 30 influential lawyers who specialise in private equity.

1 min read · 23 January 2013

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