The financial engineer 2006-11-01 Staff Writer It is a rare thing to be able to say that you brought fresh financing techniques to a mature market, but Guy Hands can lay claim to just that in Europe. The former Goldman Sachs “whiz kid,” Hands pioneered securitizations in the UK, enabling his his 70-strong No
1 min read · 23 January 2013
At a gathering in New York today, delegates at PERE’s North American Private Equity Real Estate Forum heard frontline accounts of the globalization of the industry from Morgan Stanley’s Jay Mantz and Starwood’s Barry Sternlicht.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
Coming hot on the heels of the firm’s massive acquisition of Stuyvesant Town in New York City, the real estate developer has purchased a large portfolio of German office buildings.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The head of property lending in Europe for the US investment bank has been named as one of 115 staff promoted to coveted partner status, entitling him to share in a huge remuneration pot.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The theme of the fall 2006 event was “Back to Basics,” but attendees nevertheless found time to discuss emerging markets and distressed debt.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
CB Richard Ellis released those figures at the Expo Real trade fair in Munich, which is drawing thousands of real estate investors keen on Germany and Central and Eastern Europe.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
San Francisco-based placement agent Probitas Partners, fresh from fundraising for the debut vehicles for KSL and Benson Elliot, is beefing up its real estate team.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has signed a pre-let with Zurich Italia in what has been billed as the most important leasing transaction in Italy in the last five years.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
New York-based Zurich Asset Management, which expects to invest $5 billion, will centralize its management team to capitalize on the blurring of the lines across asset classes.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The US investment bank has taken a stake in an upper scale residential developer for its third special situations fund.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
