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Klebes departs AetosDaniel Klebes, the one-time architect of Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds investments in Japan has resigned from his current position as chief investment officer of Asia private equity real estate firm, Aetos Capital.
- Grosvenor appoints Goldman Sachs veteran as fund management head
Jeffrey Weingarten, a former chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International, is to become chief executive of Grosvenor Fund Management.
- LaSalle, CBRE picked by ‘lifeboat’ fund for global RE role
The UK Pension Protection Fund has hired LaSalle Investment Management and CBRE Investors as advisors as it continues a global push into alternatives
- Goldman tests appetite for Europe’s biggest department store
The Wall Street bank has decided to tap global demand for 'super prime' property with the sale of Continental Europe’s largest department store, KaDeWe, with bids expected to be in the region of €750m.
- NAMA pro joins Longbow
Graham Emmett, former head of lending and corporate finance at Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency, has become a partner at debt specialist, ICG-Longbow Real Estate Capital.
- Blackstone, MSREI buy distressed Australian loans for A$620m
A partnership between The Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanley has purchased a portfolio of distressed property loans in Australia from Lloyd’s Banking Group at a significant discount. The assets, valued at A$1.8 billion, were acquired on behalf of the firms’ respective global opportunistic funds, BREP VII and G7.
- Europe’s debt mania
A new £1 billion fund launch underlines how senior property debt funds targeting Europe are all the rage currently.
- KKR hires ex-Goldman exec to drive European RE efforts
The first 90 days of Guillaume Cassou’s tenure as a director in the newly-formed real estate division of the New York-based buy-out titan will be to identify small pools of long-term strategic business partners and advisors.
- Stecher departs Morgan Stanley AIP
The head of the investment bank’s real estate fund of funds business left the firm earlier this week. He will be succeeded by David Boyle and Paul Vosper, who is returning from RREEF.
- RECAP III fundraising reaches $185m, completes maiden deals
SC Management, the Hong Kong and Singapore-based private equity real estate firm has already put approximately $60 million of the fund’s capital to work, acquiring a controlling position in a J-REIT and a Thai office-led property from the estate of Lehman Brothers.