Investors still want real estate in the portfolio for the same reasons as they wanted it before the credit crunch. PERE magazine December 2009-January 2010 issue
7 min read · 08 February 2013
As the economic climate improves, Nippon Life’s Hideya Sadanaga reflects on the lessons LPs can learn from the financial crisis and shares his views on the Asian private equity industry.
6 min read · 08 February 2013
There has been little clarity to the US real estate markets in the past year, however things have started to change. At the recent Urban Land Institute conference in San Francisco, PERE assembled a cross-section of industry professionals to gauge their thoughts on the state of the market and the future for private equity real estate. PERE magazine December 2009-January 2010 issue.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
The parent company of Istithmar – the private equity platform that owns stakes in Barneys New York, Cirque du Soleil and hedge fund operator GLG Partners – has asked creditors to accept a standstill on its $60bn of debt.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
More on what you need to know about structuring international private equity investments in the People’s Republic of China. By John Forry of Eisner and Steven Bortnick of Pepper Hamilton
9 min read · 08 February 2013
Private equity firms spent 2009 strengthening portfolios and are now looking to invest large amounts of dry powder, a panel in New York told delegates.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
In 2009, Americans have received warning after warning that their governments face alternatively a ‘decade of debt’ or a ‘lost decade’ due to massive, painful and protracted budget deficits that are here to stay. Opportunities are abound for infrastructure investors – but so are the pitfalls.
5 min read · 08 February 2013
Canadian pension plan OMERS is among co-investors in the European venture, which will be led by Tim Flynn, Goldman Sachs’ former European head of leveraged finance.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Vestar Capital has sold Birds Eye seven years after leading a $175m recap of the frozen food company. It marks Blackstone's fourth US private equity deal this year.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The US pension is the latest to join the government’s programme meant to jumpstart the credit markets, which CalPERS has said it will not join.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
