Private Equity
We present a quick guide to the firms – and the private equity stars behind them – making waves in the Chinese private equity industry.
10 min read · 05 January 2013
The acquisition of Chapdelaine is the Hong Kong-based private equity start-up’s first since buying AIG's Nan Shan Insurance and will be a platform to build a global brokerage business.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
The Toronto-based investment firm beat its initial target of $500m for its second drug royalties fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Thayer will buy $307m for Interstate Hotels & Resorts in a 50-50 partnership with Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels. IHR shareholders have yet to vote on the plans.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
A debate by ministers over stringent regulations for EU fund managers was temporarily cancelled following interventions by the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, a Permira LP, has expressed ‘serious concerns’ about the firm’s planned closure of a Hugo Boss plant in Ohio.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
With competition mounting for a portfolio of hotel loans seized from a failed Georgia bank, one family office says the way to FDIC success is through single-asset sales. PERE magazine April issue 2010
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York-based firm has helped Hilton buy back $1.8bn of debt and convert $2.1bn of junior mezzanine debt into preferred equity.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF), which represents UK unlisted vehicles, and the Property Industry Alliance (PIA), made up of various UK property associations, have fired off letters to the Treasury in London and the UK’s Financial Services Authority amid concerns about a European Union draft directive that has huge implications for private equity real estate funds operating in Europe.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm is targeting commitments of between $500m and $800m as it follows up on the success of its recent record-breaking RMB fundraise.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
