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Merrill Lynch $5bn Asia platform down to twoLaSalle Investment Management and ING Real Estate Investment Management remain on a whittled-down shortlist to buy the management of the Wall Street Bank’s Asian Real Estate opportunity Fund and its other Asian real estate holdings.
- Blackstone to pay $2.7bn for theme park operator
The firm will use $1bn in equity in to purchase Busch Entertainment's 10 US theme parks, including Sesame Place, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens.
- CD&R’s Sally Beauty to expand with $61m deal
The publicly listed professional beauty supply retailer will roll Schoeneman Beauty into a subsidiary platform.
- News analysis: Mega-deals range from brilliant to scary
The largest LBOs done during the bygone buyout boom range from superb performers to ‘scary’, and ‘could-be-worse’ to ‘could-be-in-trouble’, according to Private Equity International magazine.
- Leopard Capital expands team, re-opens fund
The Asian frontier markets-focused firm has made two additions to its team and resumed fundraising for the Leopard Cambodia Fund, which originally closed on $27m in April.
- Banyan Tree closes Indochina fund on $283m
The Singapore-listed leisure investment firm and developer has held a final close on its Banyan Tree Indochina Hospitality Fund, short of its original $300m to $400m target. The vehicle's core asset will be the Laguna Hue resort development.
- Vietnam Pioneer launches first-time fund
Vietnam Pioneer Fund is targeting $100m and has received a cornerstone investment from the International Finance Corporation.
- Merrill Lynch private placement team to spin out
Michael Ricciardi, Enrique Cuan and Alan Pardee will lead the 24-strong team for Mercury Capital, which will raise private equity, private equity real estate and infrastructure funds globally.
- KKR debuts as lead IPO underwriter
The $750m IPO registration of Dollar General marks an important step for the alternative investment firm as it seeks to become a bigger player in the capital markets.
- Brookfield plots move into third party fundraising
The alternatives firm has hired a rash of heavy-hitting placement professionals and could launch a third party fund placement group as early the first quarter of 2009.