The property arm of the New York-based hedge fund has filed documents for a $200m publicly traded REIT focused on investments in real estate debt.
Canada’s largest communications company, BCE, has announced it is in buyout discussions about a potential $28 billion privatisation.
Venture capital firm TVM Capital has backed two firms in the space of a week, investing $20 million in a UK submarine company and $12 million in a US-based media services group.
San Francisco-based buyout shop Hellman & Friedman has sold digital marketing firm DoubleClick to internet behemoth Google for $3.1 billion – two years after having taken the firm private for $1.1 billion.
Belgian investor GIMV has increased its investment in a clean technology fund run by Emerald Technology Ventures, as it looks to increase its exposure to the cleantech sector.
TCW has joined forces with Swiss RE and Conning & Company to raise a private equity fund for clean energy investment. The fund will also receive backing from the United Nations.
As Texas legislators consider giving the state’s Public Utility Commission power to block the proposed $45 billion buyout of TXU, KKR and TPG have promised to terminate an existing labour subcontracting agreement at the utility company, which has in turn put the electrical workers union in their corner.
Aureos, an emerging markets fund manager, will expand its Latin American operations with the launch of a new fund to invest in the region.
The Boca Raton, Florida-based turnaround private equity firm has closed its sixth fund on $6 billion – a 300 percent increase over its previous fund.
US media and communications specialist Veronis Suhler Stevenson has bought Amstar Entertainment for its platform company Southern Theatres as the group focuses on multiple acquisitions to build value.
Shares in BCE, a Canadian telecoms group, soared today following speculation that the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is talking to potential private equity partners about a $45 billion buyout.
Baring Vostok, the Russian buyout firm that recently closed a $1 billion fund, is reportedly planning to list portfolio company Volga Gas on London’s Alternative Investment Market at the end of April.
Former Goldman Sachs partner Scott Gieselman joins Texas energy private equity specialist Natural Gas Partners as managing director.
Polish buyout firm Enterprise Investors has bought Komfort, the country’s largest retail chain, for €64 million.
Cipio Partners has acquired the majority of Siemens Venture Capital Communications in one of the largest secondary direct portfolio transactions completed in the last few years.