Capstone Infrastructure has bought 70% of UK-based Bristol Water for $215m, giving the company a ‘platform investment’ in water infrastructure.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Alternatives managers the Blackstone Group and HIG Capital have both acquired debt management businesses in a bid to further expand their debt capabilities.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The Toronto-based mid-market firm has made one acquisition from the fund, acquiring Kansas-based automotive product-maker Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Once a major force in project finance before lying low during the years of excess, Deutsche Bank has re-emerged in the market over the last few years. In a challenging but more rational environment, the bank’s asset finance head Bernd Fislage speaks of the bank’s strategic priorities
5 min read · 15 January 2013
A club of 12 banks is providing a seven-year loan to fund the team’s recent acquisition of GDF Suez’s Italian gas grid and re-leverage two other local gas grids bought over the last two years. AXA/F2i is now Italy’s second-largest gas distributor.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The sale-leaseback spinoff of WP Carey has joined the investment management subsidiary of Annaly Capital Management to capitalise on the emerging European sale-leaseback market.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
China-focused Spring Capital was launched just before the 2008 credit crisis hit. Founder and chief executive Vincent Chan tells PE Asia how the first-time fund coped with a difficult fundraising process and how it differentiates itself in China’s growing private equity market
6 min read · 15 January 2013
UK opposition leader Ed Miliband singled out private equity this week as an example of 'bad business'. The argument may have been weak, but the sentiment is significant.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms have taken to filling the large, deep void left by commercial banks and other traditional real estate lenders. PERE Magazine, October 2011 issue
10 min read · 15 January 2013
There is hidden distress in the German real estate market, and private equity real estate firms are gearing up in creative ways in their quest to uncover it. PERE magazine October 2011 issue.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
