The quoted investment manager suffered a net loss for the first time in its history, due largely to hedge fund positions. Its private equity portfolio is 'in better shape' than many competitors, chief executive Nemir Kirdar has said.
Former Blackstone partner and Saul Steinberg protegee Henry Silverman will become the firm’s first chief operating officer. In 2007, he sold the reportedly now insolvent real estate company Realogy to Apollo for $8.5bn.
The buyout firm has effectively lost its $830m equity investment in the aluminium products provider, which blamed the deteriorating economy and the falling price of aluminium for its bankruptcy. Lenders led by Apollo and Oaktree are providing Aleris with new debt.
Actis director Alasdair Maclay also advised delegates gathered at PEI's Infrastructure Investor Forum that the firm’s equity returns expectations have held steady and that entry prices will eventually rise, creating lucrative exit opportunities.
The deal allows the troubled infrastructure fund manager to proceed with a sell down of its assets over a two to three year period as it begins to repay the A$3.2bn it owes to a syndicate of 25 banks on a 'pay if you can' basis.
Private equity real estate players targeting the US residential sector will have to wait several weeks for details of President Barack Obama’s plans to help homeowners facing foreclosure. Some fear it could prevent the market from finding a natural bottom.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admits the strategy will ‘cost money, involve risk, and take time’, as he outlines plans to create a public-private investment fund to help banks get rid of their ‘legacy’ loans and assets, as well as expand the government’s lending scheme to include help for commercial mortgages.
The Munich-based firm founded by former 3i executives has raised €96m to date for its debut fund.
London-based Geni Capital and Dubai's AREIT Management say the closed ended opportunity fund aims to launch with at least $100 million, with a cornerstone investor already having been lined up.
Almost half of the banking giant’s £10.4bn leveraged loan book comprises loans relating to the take-private of Alliance Boots and the AA Saga merger. The bank is holding the loans, rather than selling ‘into an unwilling market’.