A number of private equity real estate firms are nearing the end of their investment period for large funds they raised during or immediately after the global financial crisis. With a decent amount of capital left in each, the decision on how to proceed may be telling as to the firm’s confidence moving forward. PERE Magazine, December 2011/January 2012 issue
4 min read · 15 January 2013
New research from Clairvue Capital Partners reveals that, in an illiquid market, opportunities in two forms of special situations investments – recapitalisations and secondaries – are rising. PERE Magazine, December 2011/January 2012 issue.
7 min read · 15 January 2013
The fate of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing’s seventh global opportunity fund lies in a vote by investors scheduled for this month. PERE Magazine December/January 2011/2012 issue.
8 min read · 15 January 2013
The chief executive officer of Starwood Capital Group provided his views on the global economy and where he sees investment opportunities in today’s markets. PERE Magazine, December 2011/January 2012 issue
6 min read · 15 January 2013
Thomas H Lee Partners has been investing in private equity from its single office in Boston since 1974. Since founder Tom Lee left in 2005 the firm has evolved and learned some difficult lessons – particularly during the last investment cycle – but Lee’s ‘culture of collegiality’ remains in place, co-president Scott Sperling tells Graham Winfrey
10 min read · 15 January 2013
Italian media giant Mediaset has joined Clessidra to bid for TV producer Endemol. Mediaset is owned by Fininvest, a Berlusconi vehicle whose former head left in 2003 to form Clessidra.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The independent firm, renamed Fulcrum Capital Partners, will manage over C$700m (€508m; $678m) split between a private equity fund and separate mezzanine pool.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
One of the highest profile figures in European private equity real estate is leaving German insurance company Gothaer for Austria’s largest real estate firm chaired by the country’s former prime minister.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The private equity model ‘follows an anticyclical trend to that of stock markets’, according to research from Golding Capital Partners.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm’s investment in Churchill Financial highlights the increasingly attractive opportunity to back financial service companies lending into the underserved US mid-market.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
