Actis director Alasdair Maclay also advised delegates gathered at PEI's Infrastructure Investor Forum that the firm’s equity returns expectations have held steady and that entry prices will eventually rise, creating lucrative exit opportunities.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Private equity real estate players targeting the US residential sector will have to wait several weeks for details of President Barack Obama’s plans to help homeowners facing foreclosure. Some fear it could prevent the market from finding a natural bottom.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admits the strategy will ‘cost money, involve risk, and take time’, as he outlines plans to create a public-private investment fund to help banks get rid of their ‘legacy’ loans and assets, as well as expand the government’s lending scheme to include help for commercial mortgages.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Almost half of the banking giant’s £10.4bn leveraged loan book comprises loans relating to the take-private of Alliance Boots and the AA Saga merger. The bank is holding the loans, rather than selling ‘into an unwilling market’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The 87-year-old retail company has filed for Chapter 22 bankruptcy protection less than one year after originally being brought out of Chapter 11. Private equity firms are among potential buyers, Fortunoff says.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Infrastructure investors active in the region can expect more club deals by banks and a resurgence of multilateral and export agencies as sources of liquidity, according to project finance lawyers at law firm Shearman & Sterling.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
KKR co-founder Henry Kravis has said firms in today’s tough financial climate have to ‘think outside the box’ and adapt strategies to capitalise on current market opportunities or risk being ‘left out’. He was echoed by Apollo chief Leon Black, who likened big take-privates to the extinct dodo bird.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Market turmoil has forced the Italian private equity firm to stop marketing its fifth fund, launched in September. The firm's Fund IV recently acquired Tiscali's international internet business.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Angelo Gordon’s sale-leaseback group has bought the headquarters and main distribution centre of Stampede Meat, a portfolio company of Fairmont Capital, PNC Mezzanine Capital and Sankaty Advisors. The all-equity deal was valued at $14m.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Angelo Gordon’s sale-leaseback group has bought the headquarters and main distribution centre of Stampede Meat, a portfolio company of Fairmont Capital, PNC Mezzanine Capital and Sankaty Advisors. The all-equity deal was valued at $14m.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
