The Los Angeles-based firm will acquire a 65 percent stake in the company, which owns and operates more than 3,000 service stations across Europe.
After almost two decades of existence, the private equity real estate industry has seen its fair share of influential personalities. But going forward, who are the rising stars that will further shape the evolution of the asset class? PERE presents a few possibilities.
In 1999, Ric Lewis established Curzon Global Partners as a boutique European fund for AEW. Now, eight years and €15 billion later, he talks here about the firm's rapid ascension, why he set out to “wreck” European investors, and how a hole-in-one nearly cost him a car. By Robin Marriott
Pierre Vaquier, a 14-year veteran of insurance giant AXA, has taken the helm of its institutional real estate firm, AXA REIM, and is set to announce a major strategy overhaul later this month.
The US alternative asset investor has raised $305 million for its second private equity real estate vehicle focused on the European property markets.
Private equity real estate secondaries firm Liquid Realty Partners has invested $286 million to acquire an interest in a US hotel portfolio.
At a recent private equity conference on emerging markets, both the perils and potential of investing in the developed world were brought into clear focus. By Paul Fruchbom
US private equity firm TPG is exploring the possible sale of a minority stake in the firm to major state pension funds.
The UK private equity real estate firm is returning 3.3 times its invested capital three years after it acquired the retail portfolio.
Shareholders have approved the appointment of Sebastien Bazin to the supervisory board of Carrefour as Colony Capital challenges the company to sell off its real estate assets.