Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia is pushing ahead with an investment in Korea at a time when a number of heavyweight US GPs are under scrutiny from the Korean authorities.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The San Francisco-based real estate secondary firm has acquired a UK portfolio of assets for $775m, believed to be the largest secondary transaction to date in the private equity real estate sector.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The ratings agency says that there are clear signs that the current scramble for assets is undermining credit discipline in the European leveraged finance market.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
What's an “emerging” market? Be clear that some are definitely more emerged than others, David Rubenstein argued at last month's IFC/EMPEA conference in Washington.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The battle for Toys “R” Us was one of the most hotly contested transactions of last year—can the victors walk away unscathed? By Paul Fruchbom
9 min read · 12 January 2013
Apollo Real Estate has turned a 1993 investment in property-backed bonds into a $1.3 billion New York City deal.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
India's ICICI Venture gets into healthcare * GSJBW fund fully invested * Goldman, CDH win Chinese meat auction * LF Asia acquires menswear brands * IDFC lines up Indian stockbroker * Morgan Stanley to acquire Korean trader * Oak revisits India strategy * Carlyle retains Taiwan media focus * ChrysCapital exits via secondary * Allco, DB Capital acquire debt collector * Backing for Kiwi nursery firm * CHAMP consumes food firms * GIC, Olympus go organic in China
8 min read · 12 January 2013
Mike Anderson of Intermediate Capital Group looks at hidden dangers lurking in the capital structure of leveraged buyouts.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Is the distressed pendulum swinging? Investors have recently been looking towards Germany for distressed debt investing—but, according to some in the space, the smart focus for bad debt investing is the US. By Aaron Lovell.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Vittorio Pignatti Morano, Lehman’s former co-head of European M&A, has been appointed to head up the global investment bank’s European private equity activities.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
