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...
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...
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...
Private equity firm looking at technology, healthcare and consumer sectors The US private equity firm behind one of Europe’s biggest leveraged buyouts is seizing on the coronavirus pandemic to open talks with once-elusive takeover targets. Advent International, which...
Airbnb said Monday that it has raised $1 billion in debt and equity from private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, even as the online rental marketplace has seen its business plummet due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.... 