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Prevailing windsThe number of recent private equity investments in wind farms has been head-spinning.
- SECONDARIES III
The hold time for venture investments now averages more than eight years. Western IPO markets have shut down. Investors and entrepreneurs may increasingly feel trapped. Amanda Janis reports on the venture industry's growing need for liquidity and the firms poised to provide it.
- SECONDARIES I
With valuations proving a point of contention between would-be vendors and acquirers, sales of private equity portfolios to secondary buyers have been relatively subdued in recent months. But the need to free up capital means action will have to be taken sooner rather than later - and that's why secondaries specialists believe a highly productive period lies ahead. Andy Thomson reports.
- Gray: Hospitality not facing another 9/11
Despite a massive constriction in liquidity and warnings of a US recession, Blackstone real estate co-head Jonathan Gray told a PREA audience that the hotel industry remains positive.
- Fortress, Centerbridge $6bn Penn National takeover collapses
Penn National will receive $225m in cash and $1.25bn in preferred shares after the Fortress and Centerbridge-led deal to buy the casino and race-track company was terminated. Penn said a ‘re-negotiated, reduced purchase price was not a viable option.’
- Feeling the pinch
Credit woes finally strike Asia, as a handful of big-ticket private equity deals are scrapped
- leveraged finance special(4)
In Asia, the credit crunch has had limited impact on debt markets so far. Buyout pros and leveraged finance specialists in Hong Kong and Singapore are nevertheless bracing for tricky times. By Patricia Lee.
- TURKEY
Those anticipating a Turkish buyout market of substance will have taken encouragement from the BC Partners-led acquisition of Migros in February, says Toby Lewis.
- JPMorgan Asia Pacific, the former home of CCMP Capital Asia, is rebuilding its principal investment operation in the region.
JPMorgan Asia Pacific, the former home of CCMP Capital Asia, is rebuilding its principal investment operation in the region. 2008-03-01 Staff Writer After the spinout of CCMP Capital Asiain 2005, JPMorgan's activities as a merchant bank operating in Asia Pacific were markedly dim
- SPECIAL REPORT: RJR NABISCO 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Whatever happened to the movers and shakers in the great RJR Nabisco saga? Toby Mitchenall discovers most are still thriving