For the past 40 years, Sam Zell has been one of the biggest and most successful players in the US real estate market. Always opinionated, never boring, Zell recently sat down with PERE to discuss his views on the global real estate market, his unconventional holiday gifts and why he likes Libya and Brazil. By Paul Fruchbom
Investors in private equity funds should be happy about financial engineering but for two facts: everybody's doing it, and it's headed for a dry spell. David Snow reports.
The men behind Phillips-Van Heusen and Staples are raising a fund.
Yet another reason to be envious of Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers – he's published a pot-boiler.
Former DLJ head Thompson Dean has notched his first deal for Avista Capital Partners, the DLJ spinout launched by Dean and other CSFB veterans earlier this year.
New York-based Angelo, Gordon & Co. has held an interim close of $252m for its third private equity fund. The firm is targeting $300m.
Texas Pacific Group is to sell the majority of its stake in the Italian bike firm to European private equity firm InvestIndustrial.
GSC Partners and Tishman Speyer have launched a Chinese real estate joint venture, marking GSC’s first move into real estate.
Peter Bacon has reportedly left Credit Suisse First Boston to join the hedge fund set up by his former boss Bennett Goodman.
As an established presence in emerging markets, CDC-backed energy investor Globeleq is now in position to pursue its mandate: developing greenfield projects. Globeleq CEO Robert Hart shares his insights on approaching energy investments in emerging markets. By Judy Kuan.