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CCMP Asia closes $1.2bn Fund IIIThe Asia-focused buyout firm has wrapped up fundraising more than $1bn shy of its original target.
- TPG, Apollo to buy Harrah’s for $17bn
After months of negotiation, the board of the gaming company has agreed to a sweetened offer from the two private equity firms.
- Betting on gambling
As Los Angeles-based Colony Capital launches a bid to acquire casino operator Station Casinos, the gambling play is becoming a more attractive bet to private equity real estate firms. By Aaron Lovell.
- Walker criteria encompass 32 portfolio companies
The UK-centric large buyout focus of the Walker Report means only a limited number of portfolio companies have to comply. Moves are afoot to take the transparency reforms further.
- Report: IndyMac sought PE help before failure
The California bank, which was taken over by the government earlier this month, approached several private equity firms in search of rescue capital but found no takers.
- Frothy deal in Japan
Morgan Stanley is helping Sapporo turn from beer to real estate.
- Fund family values
The largest alternative investment firms in the world tend to offer suites of products. In the private equity real estate asset class, the potential for multi-strategy has barely been cracked. By David Snow
- There and back again
Over the past 20 years, Thor Equities founder Joseph Sitt has moved from urban real estate investing to the retail business and back again. Here, he speaks with PERE about his days hawking goods at flea markets, his fascination with Wal-Mart and why he took all the mini-bars out of the Palmer House Hilton. By Aaron Lovell
- Toasting profit
Private equity groups are no longer buying British pubs just for economies of scale. Now, they're repositioning them to accommodate the country's changing tastes and its impending smoking ban. By Robin Marriott
- 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.