Private Equity
The global co-investment plans of The Carlyle Group and China's Fosun Group confirm: for businesses anywhere, the lure of China is proving irresistible.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Over the past five years, the top 30 private equity real estate firms in the world have raised more than $211 billion -10 percent more than when PERE last counted capital raising efforts by the industry. Read on to discover the firms garnering the most. PERE Magazine May 2009.
10 min read · 05 January 2013
The West coast debt shop is set to acquire Lehman Brothers Real Estate Mezzanine Partners I and II following 'many months' of negotiations. PCCP will open an office in New York to help deal with the fund workouts.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
In 2009, Americans have received warning after warning that their governments face alternatively a ‘decade of debt’ or a ‘lost decade’ due to massive, painful and protracted budget deficits that are here to stay. Opportunities are abound for infrastructure investors - but so are the pitfalls.
5 min read · 05 January 2013
As the parent company of CWCapital searches for a buyer, Apollo Global and Centerbridge Capital have reportedly made competing bids, while Warren Buffett is also eyeing the US’ second largest special servicer.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Tokyo-based KK daVinci is reportedly in talks to sell three prime offices in the city. A sale would come hot-on-the-heels of the firm’s $142 million divestment of the Lietocourt Arx residential tower to Kuwait’s St Martins Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A recently released study highlights Asia as an up and coming destination on the fundraising trail.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The House bill will tax 75% of carried interest as ordinary income at a rate of 35%, and the balance as capital gains at 15%. The bill now goes before the Senate.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Though the markets may be cheering BAB’s arrival right now, their future is uncertain.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
A study of US CMBS deals reveals that more than 3,500 loans currently have debt service coverage ratios of 1.0x or less. That figure could quickly grow to $75bn as less than half the CMBS universe has reported 2009 financials.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
