Good companies with bad balance sheets and strategies outside the LBO box provide opportunities galore, said firm co-founder Leon Black at the Milken Institute's ongoing conference in Los Angeles.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The outlook for the US commercial real estate market is generally sound despite the credit crisis, according to a report by real estate management firm, ING Clarion. However ING warns the office sector will be hit over the next two years before recovering strongly in 2010-2011.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The US bank and the global buyout firm have held talks about the possibility of strengthening co-investment ties, after Merrill Lynch sounded out TPG last year on the possibility of receiving a capital injection from the buyout firm.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The buyout firm blew the whistle on a former Wall Street trader who has settled an SEC lawsuit alleging he spread false rumours about Blackstone’s Alliance Data deal.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The US bank and the global buyout firm have held talks about the possibility of strengthening co-investment ties, after Merrill Lynch sounded out TPG last year on the possibility of receiving a capital injection from the buyout firm.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
General partners must patiently wait for deal flow to thaw, writes Nicholas Lockley.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
European non-listed real estate funds `struggled` to invest equity in 2007, with opportunity funds hit hardest.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The Nordic specialist energy private equity firm has bought a start-up oil and gas exploration and development company sealing another investment in the frenetic sector.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The success of TDC, the Danish telecoms company backed by a buyout consortium, in deleveraging by buying its own debt at a discount, has tempted other firms to follow suit.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Forward-looking fund managers are preparing their portfolio companies for life in a deteriorating economic and financial climate, delegates at PEI’s Asia Forum in Hong Kong learned.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
