Less than a month after reports of a possible $300m investment in Japan's national airline, TPG and American Airlines have offered to invest up to $1.1bn in the struggling carrier.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
However, while the number of distressed situations in the country is predicted to increase, skepticism remains over whether they will be attractive to investors, according to a survey from Debtwire.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
TPG is once again targeting a struggling airline, having teamed with American Airlines on a joint bid to restructure JAL. Rival US-based carrier Delta is also bidding.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
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
