Jacqueline Brady, Margaret Blakely, Brent Morris and five others have joined Urdang as part of the firm’s push into real estate debt. The team will help advise two multi-billion dollar Capmark funds.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Together with private equity firm MBH Enterprises, Scott Roth, Patti Unti and Jimmy Parsley have created Ventras and marked their first deal by buying 12 management contracts from Capmark.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
JC Flowers has carried out an earlier threat to sue as Germany’s bail out fund attempts to squeeze out the remaining minority investor in Hypo Real Estate.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Hong Kong-based boutique SC Lowy has been established by the former heads of Deutsche Bank's Asian Distressed Products Group. Targeted opportunities to include real estate.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
SJ Berwin’s Adrian Brown examines the continuing saga of the proposed AIFM Directive.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
PERE is at the Expo Real property trade show in Munich this week. Here, our European editor Robin Marriott gives his initial observations.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The founder of private equity advisory firm Aldus Equity, Saul Meyer, has admitted to having knowingly engaged in pay-to-play corruption in New York and New Mexico.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The university is offloading investments including private equity and real estate to raise cash, according to the Wall Street Journal.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Under the terms of a proposal from House Representative Paul Kanjorski, funds deemed by the SEC to be ‘venture capital funds’ would be exempt from registering as investment advisers, but would still have to submit more detailed information to regulators.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Lisette van Doorn is leaving the European real estate association to return to ING as country and fund manager for its Southern Europe retail fund.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
