The bid by Apollo Management and Texas Pacific for the Las Vegas-based casino giant could mark one of the year’s largest buyouts.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Who are the 30 most influential lawyers in global private equity? We asked the market. Here are the results.
10 min read · 23 January 2013
The Pennsylvania-based real estate investment firm has already committed approximately a third of its new vehicle and expanded beyond the mid-Atlantic region with its first buy in Chicago.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The US property investment firm is taking an equity stake in the first purpose-built shopping center in London’s financial heartland.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The board of the Australian retailer has rejected the $12bn offer from a consortium of private equity firms including KKR, Blackstone and Bain Capital.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
Starting from an NYU dorm room in the early 1980s, Joseph Sitt began purchasing property in the blighted neighborhoods of New York and converting them into inner-city shopping strips. Along the way, he built up his own retail chains, renovated outer-borough shopping centers and built Thor Equities into an investment firm with more than $2 billion invested in urban mixed-use strategies across the US. Thor, which closed its first commingled fund in 2004, recently purchased the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago. Here Sitt speaks about urban retail, the need to think multi-dimensionally and the importance of a good sound system.
4 min read · 23 January 2013
Italy's non-performing loan market rolls on while investors wait for a new wave of distressed real estate assets. By Robin Marriott
5 min read · 23 January 2013
In a country better known for secret bank accounts and Rolex watches, Switzerland is now attracting investors keen on retail.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
As real estate investment trusts expand throughout Asia, they're bringing more investors to the region—and more transparency. By Aaron Lovell
5 min read · 23 January 2013
Europe's largest quoted private equity firm is set to devote more capital to Asian real estate in the wake of its maiden property deal.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
