The wife of Singapore’s prime minister will in October cease leading Temasek, which has come under fire for financial services over-exposure. The sovereign fund and avid private equity player will be led by ex-BHP Billiton chief executive Chip Goodyear, a succession that has been planned for 'more than a year'.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Chicago-based fund manager is targeting its $3bn Asia fund mainly in Japan and China. LaSalle, which has invested 20% of the fund, says it is in no hurry to make more investments in 2009.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The 87-year-old retail company has filed for Chapter 22 bankruptcy protection less than one year after originally being brought out of Chapter 11. Private equity firms are among potential buyers, Fortunoff says.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
A mortgage company has teamed with a title company to launch First Equity Capital, a fund ‘to stem the tide of foreclosures and delinquencies’ in the US housing market. In December, more than 300,000 home owners filed foreclosure in the US.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Infrastructure investors active in the region can expect more club deals by banks and a resurgence of multilateral and export agencies as sources of liquidity, according to project finance lawyers at law firm Shearman & Sterling.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Colony and the casino company’s main backers are planning to inject an extra $244m into the gaming operator as it struggles with its debt load. Station, which missed a debt interest payment today, revealed Chapter 11 could be part of its restructuring plan.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The world’s biggest logistics property company appoints a new head of global operations but sees its chief operating officer resign.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
A Senate bill sponsored by Chuck Grassley and Carl Levin would require all private funds to publicly disclose the identities of their LPs, as well as the value of assets under management, if the bill passes.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Oregon Investment Council has been asked by the New York-based investment firm to invest additional equity into its Gagfah deal, as it looks to pay down debt on the German residential property company. Fortress went to its LPs rather than go to 'outside sources'.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The head of JC Flowers told a packed New York conference last week that he is bullish on US government-assisted bank bailouts, similar in risk profile to the landmark takeover of Japan’s Shinsei bank, which turned into one of the most lucrative private equity deals in history and solidified Flowers’ reputation as a financial-services wizard.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
