The property arm of the New York-based hedge fund has filed documents for a $200m publicly traded REIT focused on investments in real estate debt.
Venture capital firm TVM Capital has backed two firms in the space of a week, investing $20 million in a UK submarine company and $12 million in a US-based media services group.
The German Aktiv Property Fund is the second vehicle launched in the past six months by quoted UK and European property fund Teesland iOG, which launched its Nordic Aktiv fund last November.
With fundraising down and exits up in the first quarter of 2007, US venture capital is continuing on the tail end of its current cycle. But as the NVCA’s Mark Heesen points out, the quarter’s results shows a subtle change in the psychology of the market. Dave Keating reports.
SAIF Partners, a private equity firm focused on Greater China, has raised $1.1 billion for its second fund as an independent entity. The fund will also invest in Korea and India.
The Boca Raton, Florida-based turnaround private equity firm has closed its sixth fund on $6 billion – a 300 percent increase over its previous fund.
ING Investment Management, a pioneer in the Australian private equity fund-of-funds business, is poised to start fundraising for its fourth investment vehicle.
US buyout group TA Associates has made its latest acquisition in the healthcare sector, buying disease management company Alere Medical. It is the firm’s third deal in three weeks.
Vintage Venture Partners, an Israeli fund of funds and secondaries firm, has closed its third fund at $125 million.
Index Ventures has led a consortium investing in the internet retailer, Ozon.ru, in partnership with Russia’s biggest private equity firm, Baring Vostok.