The Dubai private equity group has teamed with Dubai-backed real estate developer Nakheel to purchase a 20 percent stake in Cirque du Soleil. Famous for unusual live performances, the entertainment company will develop a permanent show on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah island.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Kuwait-based firm has acquired a quarry and site for a cement plant in Tunisia on a Greenfield plot over 220 hectares.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Richard Laing, chief executive of the UK government’s fund of funds investor in emerging markets, says the mission to reduce poverty is central to CDC’s investment thesis. Its latest commitments to Indian managers underline the strategy.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The New York-based private equity firm has made its second significant investment in the renewable energy sector with an agreement to invest in a wind farm off the coast of Germany.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
SHUAA Partners has raised $165m to invest in hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in the Middle East and North Africa. The firm plans to invest in the development of five- and four-star hotels, resorts, budget business hotels and serviced apartments.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The UK government-backed emerging markets fund of funds has invested in Africa Capital Alliance, one of six private equity funds to receive $150m from the firm.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Costa Rica-based NOA Partners is targeting prime real estate in the country, calling itself an “early mover” in the region.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
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10 min read · 01 July 2008
In the new world of private equity real estate investing, capital will be coming from everywhere and going everywhere, from increasingly sophisticated institutional investors spread around the globe. GPs should keep this in mind as they decide how to target Asia. By Dave Keating
5 min read · 22 January 2013
Canada has the most transparent commercial real estate market in the world but Dubai, Romania, Ukraine and Russia show the biggest improvement in transparency levels over the past two years, according to a report from Jones Lang LaSalle.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
