Shares of KKR Private Equity Investors, listed on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange, closed today at $22.39 per share, down nearly 9 percent since the vehicle went public on May 3.
Standard Chartered Private Equity has invested HK$370 million in a Chinese real estate development company, its second investment in a mainland China property in less than two months.
The US and UK-based investor has paid £571m for 290 managed pubs from Punch Taverns, its largest deal in Europe to date.
European mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital Group also put a record amount of capital to work in the fourteen months to 2005, arranging or providing £899m of debt financing.
Leisure parks in Europe attract customers from across the world. US and European private equity firms, it seems, are also along for the ride. By Robert Venes.
A new set of private equity valuation guidelines have been endorsed in the farthest corners of the world - but not in the US. By Judy Kuan.
Land of the rising tide 2006-07-01 Staff Writer The prefecture of Miyazaki on the island of Kyushu, located 953 miles south of Tokyo, features picturesque beaches and pine tree forests and, a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest indoor water-amusement park. The park comes complete wi
As the economies of Asia take flight, PERE takes a trip around the region to look at the residential markets of China, Japan and India— what is making them tick, what do buyers want and how can foreign funds participate? By Aaron Lovell
As activity in the European hospitality sector accelerates, private equity firms are reshaping the industry's ownership structure, begging the question as to who will own hotels in the future. By Arthur de Haast, global chief executive officer at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels
As real estate investors compete for increasingly scarce opportunities, the need for due diligence to be conducted quickly has never been greater. By Dave Keating