Leveraged Breakdowns

Welcome to Part Five of our Fund Profile Series. If you’ve been following along, you’ll see we’re steadily working our way through the top 50 global real estate private equity (REPE) firms, as per the 2020 PERE 100 list.  Each Fund Profile briefly summarizes each fund’s history, as well as getting into the details of the funds themselves. And to help you prep for your upcoming real estate private equity interviews, we also outline a few of each firm’s key real estate equity investments in recent years.  So following on from Part Four , which focused on Singapore-based GLP, up next: we’re holding Lone Star Funds up to the lens. Some background about Lone Star Funds Lone Star Funds is a Dallas-based private equity firm that specializes in distressed debt acquisitions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.  The firm was founded as Brazos Partners in 1993, and was originally a joint venture between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a Texas billionaire,...

Welcome to Part Four of our Fund Profile post series. Here, we take an in-depth look at the top 50 real estate private equity (REPE) firms to help you hit the ground running in your interviews with real estate private equity firms.  Each REPE fund profile will briefly summarize each fund’s history, as well as getting into the details of the funds themselves. Our series will also outline a few of each firm’s key real estate equity investments in recent years. By the end of each post, you should have a solid starting point to aid your preparations for your upcoming real estate private equity interviews. Following on from our focus on the Starwood Capital Group in Part Three of the series , this fourth part will examine the GLP Fund in more detail. Key facts about GLP GLP started life as Global Logistics Properties back in 2007 with its main focus on, well, logistics real estate. Founded by Ming Z. Mei and Jeffrey H. Schwartz in Singapore, the firm’s purpose was to buy Japanese an...

Welcome to Part Three of our Fund Profile post series. Here, we take an in-depth look at the top 50 real estate private equity (REPE) firms to help stand you in good stead for your interview with a real estate private equity firm.  Each REPE fund profile will briefly summarize each fund’s history, as well as getting into the details of the funds themselves. Our series will also outline a few of each firm’s key real estate equity investments in recent years. By the end of each post, you should have a solid starting point to aid your preparations for your upcoming real estate private equity interviews. Following on from Part Two of the series which focused on Brookfield Asset Management , the third part of this series will examine the Starwood Capital Group in more detail. Key facts about the Starwood Capital Group Barry Sternlicht founded Starwood Capital in 1991 as a joint venture with Robert (Bob) Faith after meeting as MBA students at Harvard Business School (yes, that’s the ...

As part of our new post series, we will continue to take an in-depth look at the top 50 real estate private equity (REPE) firms in order of their prominence. Each REPE fund profile will briefly summarize each fund’s history, as well as getting into the details of the funds themselves. Our series will also outline a few of each firm’s key real estate equity investment in recent years. By the end of each post, you should have a solid starting point to aid your preparations for your upcoming real estate private equity interviews. Following on from Part One of the series which focused on the Blackstone Group, the second part of this series will examine Brookfield Asset Management in more detail. Key Facts About Brookfield Asset Management Founded by William Mackenzie and Frederick Stark Pearson in 1899, Brookfield Asset Management Inc. was originally set up in Brazil as a utility management company called the Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company. The company was later rena...