The 87-year-old retail company has filed for Chapter 22 bankruptcy protection less than one year after originally being brought out of Chapter 11. Private equity firms are among potential buyers, Fortunoff says.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Guy Hands this week knocked deals done between financial sponsors. Toby Mitchenall explores the issue.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
Infrastructure investors active in the region can expect more club deals by banks and a resurgence of multilateral and export agencies as sources of liquidity, according to project finance lawyers at law firm Shearman & Sterling.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
Valuation difficulties have prompted the Texas-based mega-firm to cease talks that began more than a year ago with the Kuwait Investment Authority and two California pensions over the potential sale of a single digit stake in its management company.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
KKR co-founder Henry Kravis has said firms in today’s tough financial climate have to ‘think outside the box’ and adapt strategies to capitalise on current market opportunities or risk being ‘left out’. He was echoed by Apollo chief Leon Black, who likened big take-privates to the extinct dodo bird.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Prax is set to take advantage of a projected population boom in Xi’an, the capital of China’s Shaanxi province, by investing almost $30m in a residential development in the city. The population of Xi’an is due to grow to 5.3m by 2020 – up from 3.1m in 2007.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Market turmoil has forced the Italian private equity firm to stop marketing its fifth fund, launched in September. The firm's Fund IV recently acquired Tiscali's international internet business.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Angelo Gordon’s sale-leaseback group has bought the headquarters and main distribution centre of Stampede Meat, a portfolio company of Fairmont Capital, PNC Mezzanine Capital and Sankaty Advisors. The all-equity deal was valued at $14m.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Angelo Gordon’s sale-leaseback group has bought the headquarters and main distribution centre of Stampede Meat, a portfolio company of Fairmont Capital, PNC Mezzanine Capital and Sankaty Advisors. The all-equity deal was valued at $14m.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Fair value accounting demands private equity real estate mark to market. However, how does a GP mark to a market that is almost non-existent? PERE magazine February 2009 issue
4 min read · 08 February 2013
