by Sebastian | Apr 9, 2020 | News
A WeWork board committee that negotiated a $3 billion tender offer with SoftBank Group sued the Japanese conglomerate on Tuesday for abandoning the deal, accusing it of succumbing to “buyer’s remorse” amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. The tender offer was part of a...
by Sebastian | Apr 9, 2020 | News
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund built a stake worth about $200 million in Equinor ASA as the kingdom navigates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and plummeting crude prices. The Public Investment Fund amassed its holding in Norway’s largest crude producer...
by Sebastian | Apr 9, 2020 | News
Blackstone Group Inc. has finished raising a 9.8 billion-euro ($10.7 billion) fund that will target European real estate. The fund swells the firm’s uninvested capital for opportunistic property bets to about $30 billion just as the coronavirus roils markets...
by Sebastian | Apr 8, 2020 | News
Pandemic is causing falls in prices and more bankruptcies, but the true impact on private markets will not be known for months Many private equity companies sent out their December quarter valuation reports to investors last week. But limited partners may be tempted...
by Sebastian | Apr 8, 2020 | News
Apollo has led a push to expand a program intended to keep loans flowing to small businesses and households by allowing for more kinds of assets to be offered as collateral. As government officials fight to prevent an economic depression by setting up emergency...
