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ECONOMIC CRISIS: Listed PE firms feel the heatListed private equity firms were walloped in last week’s brutal hammering of public markets across the globe, with some analysts wary about the volatility of the sector.
- Anglo Irish $9.65bn loan book attracts multiple bids
The Blackstone Group, Centerbridge Capital Partners, Lone Star Funds, TPG Capital, Lubert-Adler Partners, Cerberus Capital Management and Colony Capital are among the bidders to have met the 9 August first bids deadline.
- Valad sale to Blackstone approved by shareholders
Blackstone’s first significant investment in Australia is now just days away from being completed after the shareholders of Sydney-based Valad Property Group approved the A$806 million sale of the business to Blackstone Real Estate Partners VI fund.
- Blackstone sells Canadian office portfolio
The New York-based private equity and real estate giant has sold its portfolio of 29 refurbished Canadian office buildings to Dundee Real Estate Investment Trust for C$831.8 million.
- GLP in exclusive talks to buy $1.8bn LaSalle logistics portfolio
The Asia logistics giant led by ex-ProLogis chief Jeff Schwartz and backed by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation has reportedly been granted exclusivity in its negotiations to buy the Chicago-based investment management firm’s 24-asset Japanese logistics portfolio.
- PA SERS commits to LEM's third fund
The $26 billion pension plan’s board has approved a commitment to the Philadelphia-based private equity and mezzanine debt investor's latest high-yield real estate debt fund.
- Everything must go
Anglo Irish Bank wants to offload its roughly $10 billion portfolio of US property loans in one fell swoop. Given private equity real estate’s finest are arranging themselves into bidding consortiums, the omens look good that its wish will be granted.
- Anglo Irish Bank to sell $9.65bn US portfolio
The distressed Dublin-based bank is entertaining bids for a portfolio of 248 loans backed by properties across the US from such private equity real estate firms as Blackstone, KKR and Westbrook.
- The wrong type of capital
Why the sale of a stake in a £1.4bn loan book by Royal Bank of Scotland ended up as one for a debt fund, not an opportunistic real estate vehicle.
- EUROPE NEWS: Take ‘em to the Tower
From large private equity shops and limited partners to boutique advisors and workout specialists, the Hilton Tower Bridge in London was the hub for European private equity real estate last month. PERE Magazine July,August 2011 issue.