The firm will reportedly pay $200m for a 40% stake in Sao Paulo-based Patria Investments, with which Blackstone has had a strategic alliance since 2004.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Denver-based hotel and leisure investment firm KSL Capital Partners has hit the fundraising trail on its third fund, KSL Capital Partners III, for which it is aiming to attract $1.5bn in capital commitments.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
In a recent meeting, a San Diego pension offered a rare glimpse at internal rates of return and performances of two heavy-hitting infrastructure investors – Global Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
US banks are currently sitting on billions of dollars worth of souring real estate loans. What for? According to Sam Zell, to stay alive banks and other real estate owners needs to come clean about their problems. By Zoe Hughes.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Stephen Moseley, a former co-president of advisory firm PCG Capital Partners, is suing his former employer for 'fraudulent business practices'.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Timothy Grady, the real estate veteran responsible for launching and growing Merrill Lynch’s private equity real estate platform in Asia, has joined Mark McGoldrick’s Mount Kellett Capital Management as a managing director.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Cleveland-based advisory and investment management firm, The Townsend Group, becomes the latest beneficiary of the National Pension Service of Korea’s strategy of increasing its international real estate exposure.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Fearing ‘unintended consequences’ resulting from the pending directive, the world’s largest venture capital associations met up this week to discuss the industry’s concerns.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman stated his firm will be active in the country at an event honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as Schwarzman.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
With more than 800 banks on the FDIC watchlist, dealing with the troubled assets on thousands of community and regional banks will be priority for industry.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
