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Dechert’s Adam Levin on the EU Directive.
The Australian investment bank now has a dedicated group of managers for its principal investments in North America, as opposed to having investment bankers who originated the investments manage the assets.
Two US economists have released a thought piece making the case for repealing FIRPTA, citing potential benefits to the commercial real estate market, productivity gains for commercial real estate-related businesses and increased funding for the US current-account deficit.
An anonymous placement agent on proposed rules for the placement business.
Globalisation, financial regulatory trends and increasing investor demand for transparency have made financial communications more important than ever. Riverside-backed company King Worldwide is looking to take advantage of these trends, and bring consolidation and growth to the industry.
Coller Capital’s Jeremy Coller on the need for better terms and conditions.
The year 2009 was an eventful one for private equity. Managers of private equity firms learned a number of important lessons, which will likely guide how they do business in 2010 and beyond. Kevin Ley details five takeaways from 2009.
Timothy Mohr and Robert Weiner of BDO Consulting share cautionary tales of misdeeds and alarming facts unearthed just before deal closings.
Merrill Lynch’s global real estate principle investments division has halted plans to offload its Asian real estate investment management business. The platform may be placed on the market again late second quarter 2010.
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