The $280m real estate JV vehicle between Blue Vista Management and Place Properties – Place/BV Student Housing Fund – has invested $47m in two student accomodation deals in the US. The fund targets the acquisition and development of off-campus student housing.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Oklahoma-based Laredo, seeded by Warburg last year, has used equity financing from the New York-based firm to make acquisitions and continue drilling in the ‘mid-continent’ region of the US.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
New LPs accounted for half the commitments to the London- and New York-based firm’s second fund since spinning out of hedge fund group Soros Fund Management.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Lehman Brothers Private Equity Partners, which is unaffiliated with the collapsed investment bank, saw its losses for the year nearly double during the month of October.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
In line with other real estate firms, Axa Real Estate Investment Managers plans to grow its property debt investment business quickly given the opportunities likely to arise from banks holding investments on their balance sheets.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Peter DiCorpo joins the Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm as chief operating officer. It follows CBRE Investors' appointment last month of former GE Real Estate executive, Shaun O’Connor.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The California-based placement agent also estimates that $21.5bn has been raised for infrastructure in the first nine months of 2008, which is less than the $34.3bn raised last year, but more than the 2006 total of $17.9bn.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The California-based placement agent, Probitas, also estimates that $21.5bn has been raised for infrastructure in the first nine months of 2008, less than the $34.3bn raised last year.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Jesús Olmos Clavijo, former CEO of Spanish utility Endesa, will report to Marc Lipschultz, KKR’s global head of energy and infrastructure and work alongside Simon Hipperson, managing director in its European infrastructure team in London.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Former chiefs of Blockbuster, PepsiCo and Pizza Hut will manage the fund for the Texas mid-market firm.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
