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  • Los Angeles approves parking agreement
    Cezary Podkul- 18 January 2013

    The City Council’s approval paves the way for Los Angeles to release the final agreement to bidders interested in a 50-year concession on nine parking garages. A winning bidder could be selected in March.

  • KKR, Delancey strike Ireland deal
    Robin Marriott- 17 January 2013

    New York-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has reportedly teamed up with London’s Delancey to buy the headquarters of State Street and an adjoining site in Dublin.

  • Belief systems
    James Comtois- 17 January 2013

    While many US pension plans are putting their faith in core strategies, KKR is urging them to go opportunistic

  • Patron revs up for CEE distress
    Robin Marriott- 17 January 2013

    Patron Capital has teamed up with London-based Revetas Capital Advisers to advise on buying distressed assets in Central and Eastern Europe or assets in Western Europe controlled by local CEE banks. Revetas is also raising a €250m fund, it revealed.

  • Giannini: the LP community is 'fragmenting'
    Christopher Witkowsky- 17 January 2013

    A formerly unified LP universe is dividing based on those building customised accounts and those sticking to the traditional fund commitment route, Hamilton Lane CEO Mario Giannini said.

  • Schroders wins £135m multi-manager mandate
    Robin Marriott- 17 January 2013

    The London-based manager has won a mandate from the pension scheme of Boots, the retailer which KKR recently sold to Walgreens of the US.

  • LeBlanc to leave Texas Teachers'
    Christopher Witkowsky- 17 January 2013

    The revolving door of private equity leaders at US public pensions continues to spin as Steve LeBlanc, one of the most influential LPs in the market, has decided to head to the private sector.

  • Carlyle gears up for $800m IPO
    Clare Burrows- 17 January 2013

    The Washington, DC-based alternatives manager is set to raise up to $800 million in its forthcoming initial public offering, which would value the group at about $8 billion.