Private Equity
Ladder Capital postponed plans for a partial blind-pool REIT after institutional investor appetite waned last September. CEO Brian Harris talks to Zoe Hughes about the future.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm had offered $2.4bn, which included the assumption of debt, to acquire Ohio-based Cedar Fair. The deal did 'not have the required level of investor support', the company said.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Universal healthcare will complicate the landscape, but increases opportunities for investments in companies that service providers, according to Riverside's Harvey Sigelbaum and Joseph Ibrahim.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Sajith Ranasinghe has moved from New York to the $8.5bn pension fund’s Hong Kong office as it looks to increase its exposure to Asian private equity and real estate.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Bill Thompson, Walter Stackler, Pamela Wright and Fredrik Elwing have all left to join the New York-based bank. Greenhill said its expansion into the real estate capital raising business was a ‘natural step’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate fund manager has appointed former TPG exec Justin Chang to lead its push into private equity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Will Kussell, who worked as president at the restaurant chain, will help Advent identify investment opportunities.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
This week, when LPs – particularly the California Public Employees’ Retirement Systen – had something to say, GPs listened.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The US Treasury Secretary said in a second letter the US is bolstering its regulatory approach to alternatives with registration requirements.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm’s financial services group, led by Olivier Sarkozy, half brother of the French president, has made three investments.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
