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Filling the voidThe hire of Bryan Southergill to be KKR’s first Asia real estate head is another step in the wider trend of private equity firms replacing investment banks as the region’s real estate heavyhitters.
- AIP RE hires Asia head from GTIS
Morgan Stanley’s real estate multi-manager arm has re-hired Jon Sandstrom to be its Asia head, following a two-year stint at GTIS.
- The Wall St reshuffle
With most legacy bank platforms now gone from the ranking and the real estate arms of Morgan Stanley and Goldman experiencing a dip in qualifying fundraising activity, this year’s PERE 50 looks significantly different from years past.
- Forum Asia head quits to go solo
Merrit Maddux, head of Asia at private equity real estate firm Forum Partners, has left after six years to start his own firm Rail Canyon Capital. He has been replaced by ex-Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Paul Hastings executive Gregory Wells.
- MSREI plots next global fund
Morgan Stanley is reportedly hitting the fundraising trail for another global real estate opportunistic fund in a major strategy rethink having first considered raising separate pan-regional funds.
- MSREI to exit RMB3.3bn Lifehub mall in Shanghai
On behalf of its 2004 global opportunity fund, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund V International, the real estate unit of investment bank Morgan Stanley has agreed the sale of the LifeHub@Jinqiao shopping centre to a JV between subsidiaries of Singapore-based conglomerate Keppel Group.
- GreenOak plots UK senior lending market entry
The firm started in 2010 by the ex-heads of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing is expected to bring to market its first investment fund in Europe in the form of a senior debt fund focused on UK properties.
- Volcker Rule prompts MSREI to convert $3bn fund
The private equity real estate business of investment bank Morgan Stanley has devised a plan to resolve the future of the one fund on its books that stands to contravene the Volcker Rule and has put it to an investor vote.
- Rockspring hires ex-rugby star to tackle Europe IR
The London-based real estate investment management firm has brought aboard ex- Newcastle Falcons player Allen Chilten as a senior manager in its EMEA investor relations team.
- Friday Letter Topping out the 30 largest firms
Blackstone and Morgan Stanley lead the latest PERE 30 ranking for the second year running. That may change in the future, though.