Private Equity
Growth capital investor General Atlantic has invested $200m for a minority stake in internet security firm Kaspersky Labs.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
John Klopp and Olivier de Poulpiquet become both joint CEO’s and CIO’s of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, the real estate investment business of Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley. Both were recruited for other roles by the bank earlier this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Bain is exiting Novacap, a company it created when it carved out a division of French chemical giant Rhodia in 2003.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Evan Bayh, the former US Senator from Indiana, will join the firm as Apollo prepares to go public.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
US Venture capital investment increased 19% in dollar terms and 12% in deal volume in 2010 compared to 2009, the first annual increase for venture since 2007.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Sonny Kalsi, John Carrafiell and Fred Schmidt, a trio of former Morgan Stanley real estate investing heads, form new property firm GreenOak Real Estate with $110m of backing from Dutch listed company, Tetragon. The firm has formed ahead of an expected surge in distressed loan disposals, fire sales, and MBS workouts.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
TPG Specialty Lending will be run by two former Goldman Sachs executives Alan Waxman and Joshua Easterly.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
ING Real Estate Investment Management has agreed the sale of its A$2.5 billion Australian Securities Exchange-listed industrial fund to a consortium of buyers led by Sydney-based Goodman Group. The sale is the latest in a string of real estate offloads by Dutch parent company ING.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Jay Mantz, president and chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, told the PERE Forum: Europe that he expected the US to offer the best out-performance opportunities while Europe offers little by way of growth.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Rockley Group and Blue Oak Capital have each launched a fund this week in conjunction with local municipal governments in China.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
