The beleaguered Australian infrastructure specialist is reviewing Babcock & Brown Capital, a move that follows its purchase of another satellite fund’s management rights and highlights the difficulties the satellite fund model has faced in the wake of the global credit crisis.
The Massachusetts-based private investment firm has sold Vertex Fasteners to industrial equipment distributor DXP Enterprises three years after the initial acquisition.
Institutional investors are ramping up their commitments to distressed debt funds, but which asset class they fit into becomes complex when those commitments end up in credit vehicles raised by traditional buyout firms, according to CalSTRS CIO Chris Ailman.
The pair have teamed up to acquire a package of 28 assets. It is the first UK deal by Curzon and affiliate AEW Europe since it closed the European Property Investors Special Opportunities fund on €800 million in May.
The listed private equity investor revealed its first write-down in seven years this morning. However, the group’s shares rose in early trading as investors reacted positively to the firm’s interim results statement.
In what could be a sign of things to come, the firm has made the first tender offer for a J-REIT in Japan as the publicly listed vehicles continue to be undervalued.
The Los Angeles-based buyout shop has sold floral delivery business FTD Group to United Online for roughly $754m in cash and stock, four years after purchasing the business in a $422m take-private. The deal value is roughly $46 million below the original announced purchased price.
Just €392m worth of transactions were completed in the first six months of 2008, compared to €1.9bn for the same period last year, according to a report by CBRE which warned the country was going through a ‘very challenging period.’
European venture deals have hit a nine-year low. But Germany and cleantech remain bright spots, writes Amanda Janis.
The sovereign fund, which has received US antitrust approval to raise its stake in Merrill Lynch, has doubled its profits to S$18.2 billion. Though it predicts continued credit market fallout will dampen the economy, Temasek has indicated it will continue to do direct deals in financial services.