The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is building a reputation as an influential real estate player via its captive real estate arm, Oxford Properties. In an interview with PERE, Oxford’s team talks about its plans to own C$30 billion in assets by 2015, its expansion around the world and why it isn’t interested in third-party funds. PERE magazine, April 2012 issue.
10 min read · 14 January 2013
The European Commission has revised its conditions imposed on Germany’s Commerzbank with regard to its property lending unit Eurohypo. Instead of selling off the subsidiary and its €67 billion loan book, the bank will now be wound down and its assets separated into three divisions.
3 min read · 14 January 2013
Three US agencies have proposed revisions to leveraged finance guidelines in order to curb the ‘deteriorated’ underwriting standards involved in leveraged finance.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The investment bank’s private equity real estate platform is expected to raise a sequel fund to its 2008, $2.6bn GS Real Estate Mezzanine Partners that would target both US and European opportunities.
3 min read · 14 January 2013
The New York-based firm, led by former WP Carey executive Edward LaPuma, will be rolling out two real estate vehicles focusing on the sale-leaseback market in North America and Europe and seeking to raise a total of more than $400 million from institutional investors.
3 min read · 14 January 2013
Sovereign debt has once again become a key risk indicator for private equity investors, but this time around Asia is in good shape
3 min read · 14 January 2013
The US Senate passed legislation Thursday that would eliminate restrictions prohibiting private equity firms from publicly marketing their funds.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The Bahrain-based investment firm, which invests in private equity and real estate, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York after failing to refinance a $1.1 billion credit facility.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
Multiple industry sources agree Carlyle owners did nothing unusual in using the proceeds from a $500m loan primarily to pay themselves, but some have questioned Carlyle’s public description of the borrowings in 2010.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The firm has sold a business line of UK engineering company Tomkins, the largest private equity buyout of 2010 at $4.7bn, to Madison Dearborn Partners for $505m.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
