Jon Thompson has joined the firm in the London office to help with fundraising and client functions for the planned real estate fund to be managed by New York-based Apollo Global Management.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Leon Black-led firm has assembled a core group of real estate professionals from Barclays, Goldman Sachs and AREA Property Partners as it prepares to raise an opportunistic private equity real estate fund later this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Leo van den Thillart, a former global co-head of private funds group at Bear Stearns, has joined Canadian firm Brookfield Asset Management to help with international equity raising and client services.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Ford Fraker will augment the firm’s network and relationships in the Middle East, where KKR began operations last year. He remains a shareholder in Trinity Group, a London-based investment bank and placement agent he co-founded in 1996.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The US firm wants to raise the money to help pay down debt in its German residential business, Gagfah, as well as alleviate funding issues at its other real estate investments, according to a report.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
China's real estate sector has expanded in terms of investment deals, with $25bn of property transactions in the first half of the year. However it has been mainly driven by domestic investors. Deals by foreign firms declined by more than two-thirds over the past year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Relief is felt as the German commercial real estate lender recovers some of the heavy falls it suffered on Monday when news of a €35bn financial package sent shares in the company tumbling.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
JC Flowers' founder has resigned his position from the supervisory board of troubled European property lender Hypo Real Estate to avoid conflicts of interest as he fights to preserve the value of the firm's investment. Richard Mully, a managing partner of fellow Hypo investor Grove International, has also resigned.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Rachel Tan, former global head of business development for real estate and private equity at French bank Société Générale, is helping expand the capital raising business at Australia’s Macquarie Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The largest commercial property lender in Germany and one of the largest in Europe is merging its European structured finance team, likely to lead to 10 job losses.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
