The firm that Stephen Schwarzman and Peter Peterson left in 1985 has crumbled to a roughly $3bn market capitalization, versus Blackstone’s $4bn. It follows moves to spin off its $30bn commercial real estate exposure and sell a 55 percent stake in its PE and RE arms.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
ICICI Venture is to suffer another high profile departure. Deshpande is set to leave the firm, reportedly to take a position with NEA, just months after Aluri Rao left to lead Morgan Stanley Private Equity’s India operations.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Confronting an increasingly overweighted private equity portfolio, CalPERS has made $700m in commitments to real estate funds and almost $1bn to four private equity funds.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Beverly, Massachusetts-based private equity real estate firm appoints a former hedge fund executive to help drive its institutional sales and capital-raising arm, Brookwood Securities Partners.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Announcing plans to save the investment bank from collapse, Lehman Brothers will separate its balance-sheet real estate assets into a new public company, as well as sell a 55 percent stake in an investment management unit that includes Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and Lehman Brothers Real Estate.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The addition of former Skanska Infrastructure Development chief Simon Hipperson comes as the firm continues to build its team amid a reported $10bn fundraising effort.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The £132.5m sale comes as the UK’s Competition Commission is threatening to force the Spanish infrastructure investor to sell three airports owned by British Airport Authority, which it acquired in 2006.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Bob Stefanowski, a 14-year General Electric veteran who most recently headed the firm’s European corporate finance division, will lead 3i’s push into North American growth and infrastructure investments.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Former Sun Life Financial Canada president Robert Astley will succeed longtime director Gail Cook-Bennett as head of the C$128bn Canadian pension's in-house investment arm.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US investor has created a new post for Michael Bryant to lead the firm's increased investment in European and Asian real estate debt, which it sees as a "crucial part" of the growth of its business.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
