For the past thirteen years, Apollo senior partner Lee Neibart has helped build a real estate portfolio that extends from the five boroughs of New York City to the far-flung capitals of Eastern Europe. In his office high above Columbus Circle, Neibart recently sat down with PERE to talk about the evolution of Apollo, the significance of the Time Warner Center and his passion for politics. By Paul Fruchbom
10 min read · 12 January 2013
For the past 40 years, Sam Zell has been one of the biggest and most successful players in the US real estate market. Always opinionated, never boring, Zell recently sat down with PERE to discuss his views on the global real estate market, his unconventional holiday gifts and why he likes Libya and Brazil. By Paul Fruchbom
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Investors in private equity funds should be happy about financial engineering but for two facts: everybody's doing it, and it's headed for a dry spell. David Snow reports.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
Former DLJ head Thompson Dean has notched his first deal for Avista Capital Partners, the DLJ spinout launched by Dean and other CSFB veterans earlier this year.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
GSC Partners and Tishman Speyer have launched a Chinese real estate joint venture, marking GSC’s first move into real estate.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
KPS Special Situations and Pegasus Partners have already recouped 1.5x their investment in Genesis Worldwide thanks to a unit sale to Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Every private equity firm needs a strategy for China. Close ties with Hong Kong-based Investor Capital Partners is the centre piece of EQT's.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The UK mid-market specialist has made four times its money on its investment in Fosbel via a secondary disposal to American Capital Strategies.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
There are considerable opportunities in the Chinese non-performing loan (NPL) market, but foreign involvement has so far been scant. Albert McLelland and Sunny Lin cast an eye over recent developments.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
In the same week that Blackstone announced plans to open an office in India, KKR is reportedly considering its first Asian investment – an $800m stake in Samsung Life Assurance.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
