The Tokyo-based firm will make growth capital investments and provide fresh funding for stressed Japanese companies.
Contrary to what one might expect, a lot of managers are finding 2009 to be a good time to launch an infrastructure fund. From curious investors in emerging markets to helping hands from governments, there are plenty of reasons to be planning a roadshow.
The British DFI has committed $5m to local manager Manocap.
Catherine Lewis La Torre, co-founder of fund of funds Proventure, will help Fondinvest to invest two recently closed funds.
The hybrid fund manager is one of several firms, including Bain affiliate Sankaty Advisors, trying to take advantage of the dearth of lenders for bankruptcy loans.
The latest sentiment survey from the US real estate lobby group, the Real Estate Roundtable, finds that confidence is rising in the industry – but there is still a ‘grim sense of reality’.
Fundraising by Australian private equity funds plummeted to A$1.54bn in the year ending June 2009, although total investment value registered a slight increase.
Four veterans of the Asia real estate market gather in Singapore to compare notes. For the third year, PERE organised a roundtable discussion about the Asia real estate investment opportunity, this time in Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel. Our four Asia old-hands spoke optimistically about the forward fundamentals of many Asian countries, but voiced caution about the fragility in the west. PERE November issue.
Campbell Lutyens has brokered a secondary restructuring transaction of Swiss-listed APEN, formerly known as AIG Private Equity.
The architect of Lehman Brothers' private equity strategy is to head a new investment business with the firm that advised on its overhaul in bankruptcy