The deadline for most private equity firms to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been set for 21 July this year, but may be extended to the first quarter of 2012, according to a letter from the government agency.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Stephen Renna has been named chief executive officer of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council after almost three years at the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The sovereign wealth fund of Singapore has officially opened its first India office and has installed its real estate head, ex-RREEF executive Kishore Gotety, to run it.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The investment bank has been trying to recruit professionals for a team that would raise private equity funds, a business Goldman says it has been in ‘for a number of years’ and is ‘interested in growing’.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based fund manager has hired ACF Capital and Wachovia executive Tony Fineman as EVP to target debt and equity acquisitions and Gramercy Capital’s Laura Godfrey as VP of investor relations.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The current predicament of US property services firm Grubb & Ellis set against improving market conditions makes it an ideal investment for private equity.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Tom Barrack’s firm is locked in exclusive 60-day talks with global property broker Grubb & Ellis over a tie-up, having already extended $18m of financing to the company.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The alternatives division of HSBC Private Bank has recruited Caleb Mercer to its real estate fund management business as it seeks further prime assets.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The Toronto-based manager has invested just 30% of its $5.5bn Real Estate Turnaround Consortium, committing $1.6bn into the GGP recapitalisation. Brookfield, which has another $3.1bn of infrastructure dry powder, is planning to launch seven funds in the next 18 months eyeing $4bn of public and private equity.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
A week after Japan’s ‘big one’ finally arrived, the human catastrophe is as yet unmeasured. Still, in the long term, international investors should not turn their backs on the country.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
