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Lone Star squaredThe Texas-based private equity firm has bought the previously unaffiliated Lone Star Steakhouse chain for $600m.
- Rubenstein adds Trizec investment pro
Philadelphia-based private equity real estate firm Rubenstein Partners has hired the former chief investment officer of Trizec to help acquire assets for its debut fund.
- Blackstone JV ties up $9b Trizec buyout
Through its partnership with New York-based Brookfield Properties, the private equity giant has taken one of North America’s largest office landlords private and intends to expand its CarrAmerica platform on the West Coast.
- Blackstone seals world’s biggest ever private equity deal
The US buyout firm is taking over Sam Zell’s US real estate investment trust Equity Office Properties Trust amid warnings that the collapse of the large buyout in all sectors of private equity is “inevitable”.
- A better platform
Two former UBS pros have launched JT Partners, a placement agent with minority backing from Apollo Real Estate and Raimus Capital.
- A year to remember
For the first time, PERE commemorates the people, firms and deals that shaped the past year in the global private equity real estate industry. And what a year it was.
- Grabbing the baby from the bathwater
Over the past year, investors have fled real estate investment trusts, lumping them in with fears about the subprime meltdown and the housing market. Now REITs are on the rise again, but they are still trading at discounts. Could this be the perfect time for some public-to-private buyouts? By Dave Keating
- Goldman Sachs in $1bn NYC JV
The investment bank’s real estate arm and New York developer Related Companies sign a deal to transform the largest undeveloped plot of land in Manhattan. The deal was signed just six days after real estate investment firm Tishman Speyer pulled out of the project.
- Top trends of 2007: the golden age of REIT buyouts
PERE looks back at the year just passed for the trends that mattered most. Today we look at trend number one - public real estate investment trusts held great attraction for well capitalized private equity real estate firms.
- Vornado enters Equity Office fray
US real estate trust Vornado has reportedly joined the consortium mulling a counter-bid for Equity Office.