Managers raising Euro-denominated infrastructure funds are anxious about prospects in the aftermath of the Eurozone’s dramatic summer.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Fundraising by firms targeting emerging markets is accelerating, says trade body EMPEA, which predicts the total will reach $40bn by year end, almost double the $23.5bn raised in the whole of 2010.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The industry’s European lobbying arm has welcomed the continent’s proposal for a venture capital marketing passport, saying it would help drive growth in the struggling region.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The Italian infrastructure investor was said to be seeking €100m in damages over the failed placement of an infrastructure fund in 2007. Both parties say the dispute has been resolved ‘amicably’, without mentioning if any damages were paid.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
In its second quarter results, the New York-based asset manager reported that revenue growth in its real estate segment had sextupled, largely from increased management fees, and also revealed a second closing for its latest real estate fund.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Richard Slocum, a highly-regarded LP who helped craft the ILPA Private Equity Principles, will join the family office of the Johnson Family as CIO.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Six months after determining it would commit up to $1.2 billion of equity commitments to real estate value-added and opportunity funds, Korea’s largest institutional investor has made four commitments to managers deploying strategies in North and South America.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Six months after determining it would commit up to $1.2 billion of equity commitments to real estate value-added and opportunity funds, Korea’s largest institutional investor has made four commitments to managers deploying strategies in North and South America.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
A subsidiary of the private equity group has secured the backing of nine banks to help fund the €1.2bn project – ‘the first German wind farm to be fully financed by private investors’. Blackstone has also acquired a licence to build another offshore wind farm worth €1.3bn.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm has secured the backing of nine banks to help fund the €1.2bn project – ‘the first German wind farm to be fully financed by private investors’.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
