The US investment bank has teamed with French property company Atemi to buy Coeur Defense in Paris for €2.1bn from joint owners Whitehall Funds and Unibail.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The European real estate investment management firm has closed a fund targeted towards French institutional investors €100m ahead of its original target.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Mezzanine specialist Intermediate Capital has appointed a new head of investor relations, as it looks to enhance its transparency to institutional backers.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
US buyout firm GI Partners has backed a £440 million secondary buyout of Park Resorts, a UK mobile home park operator owned by ABN AMRO Capital.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Details of Blackstone’s IPO filing show, among many other things, that real estate investment is outperforming its core private equity business.
5 min read · 22 January 2013
The Carlyle Group announced the firm hired an Ernst & Young veteran from the region to advise the firm’s investments within the country.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Two US real estate investment firms have struck separate sale and leaseback deals with Kwik-Fit in Europe totaling €213m.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Charlie McCreevy, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, has leapt to the defence of the private equity and hedge fund industries, while criticising their public relations efforts.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Blackstone Group is reportedly close to filing for an initial public offering of the firm just weeks after Steven Schwarzman dismissed the public markets as a source of capital for buyout fundraising.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Institutional Limited Partners Association has appointed Kathy Jeramaz-Larson to run its day-to-day operations.
1 min read · 22 January 2013