Qatar Holding, the direct investment division of the Qatar Investment Authority, has purchased the world famous Harrods store in London for £1.5 billion. The purchase is part of a wider strategy to aquire "prestigious top performing businesses".
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Starwood Capital Group has returned to UK and mainland European investing for the first time in three years. Robin Marriott meets Sean Arnold and Desmond Taljaard, the pair behind the comeback. PERE magazine May issue 2010
10 min read · 24 January 2013
The emerging markets specialist is taking a majority stake in a project in Ikeja, Lagos, with debt funding coming from local players, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Standard Bank of South Africa.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
PERE recently spent a week in Dubai and Abu Dhabi gauging investment market sentiment after the economic crisis in the region at the end of 2009. Four real estate professionals of different disciplines offered their perspectives on development opportunities and the flow of capital in the region. PERE Magazine, March 2010 issue.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
A group of UK real estate investment professionals have teamed up to form Talisman Capital, an investment firm set up to capitalise on the ‘current weakness in the UK property market’.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The Cayman Island’s loss will be Luxembourg’s gain if the EU’s AIFM Directive passes as written.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Laura O’Neill will continue to focus on corporate real estate, infrastructure and the emerging markets of Africa and India at competitor Greenberg Traurig.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Laura O’Neill will continue to focus on corporate real estate, infrastructure and the emerging markets of Africa and India at competitor Greenberg Traurig.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (at a Private Equity Firm About to Relocate to Sark)
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The oil and gas exploration platform, created in 2005 by a consortium including Carlyle, Goldman and First Reserve, hopes to fund its exploration activities despite having ‘no proved reserves’.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
