Private Equity
The Boston-based firm will use $536m of equity in the take-private, the latest in a string of transactions around the $1bn mark agreed in recent weeks.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The sale of Citi Property Investors would mean different things depending on which of the short-listed buyers wins the race to buy the platform. PERE illustrates some pros and cons of each bid.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
Private fund tax experts were pleasantly surprised last month to see proposed legislation come out of the US Congress designed to encourage fund managers to stay onshore.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Merrill Lynch’s global real estate principle investments division has halted plans to offload its Asian real estate investment management business. The platform may be placed on the market again late second quarter 2010.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The bank, which is selling an $8bn private equity business, has had an extensive history in the asset class.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The investment gives the emerging markets specialist a substantial minority stake in Integreon and will be used to scale up the company's operations and to make strategic acquisitions.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Bruce Barclay, a London-based dealmaker-turned-fundraiser, will leave the global firm and be replaced by Carlyle’s Robert Brown.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Sander Levin, who previously backed bills to tax carry as ordinary income instead of capital gains, will chair the House Ways and Means Committee.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Merrill Lynch puts plans for its second Asian real estate opportunity fund on ice as it awaits direction from the bank’s new owners, the Bank of America.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Post-economic downturn, a recurring theme in conversations with industry professionals is Asia’s rising star as an investment destination for global private equity capital.
5 min read · 05 January 2013
