The US property investment management firm is stepping up its European activities with two new fund of fund launches as the product gains in popularity.
The US buyout firm is taking over Sam Zell’s US real estate investment trust Equity Office Properties Trust amid warnings that the collapse of the large buyout in all sectors of private equity is “inevitable”.
Hotel veteran William Reynolds will lead the company’s acquisition and development efforts.
Fresh from a post at GE Real Estate, Tom Wagner will join the real estate investment division of Cerberus as a managing director.
An infrastructure consortium including Credit Suisse and GE Infrastructure has paid a reported €750m to acquire London City Airport.
This is the second multi-family investment in the market for the Philadelphia-based investment manager.
Fast expanding Macquarie Global Property Advisors has sold a UK-focused business park for £640 million, more than double what it paid for the company four years earlier.
The US private equity fund has added another attraction to its burgeoning European-focused portfolio, which it has built up through Merlin Entertainments.
DLJ Merchant Banking will provide two-thirds of the capital and New York-based boutique hotelier Morgans will provide the rest.
Duke Street Capital founder Edmund Truell’s new company the Pension Insurance Corporation may come to the rescue of buyout firms looking at deals with mature pension fund issues.