Investment vehicles managed by Colony Capital LLC (Colony) have completed the acquisition of a portfolio of institutional real estate collateralised non-performing loans (NPL) from four German banks, including Eurohypo, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), Berlin Hyp and Archon Capital Bank. These first ranking loans have a face value of EUR370 million and

Private equity firms often look to sell holdings on the public market in order to realise gains on investments and increase returns to their investors. Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the US, provides private equity groups with four recommendations to help them

Advertising technology innovator EDO Interactive (EDO) has secured a Series B financing to fuel the growth of Prewards, EDO’s flagship digital deals and incentives platform. The financing was co-led by Baird Venture Partners and VantagePoint Capital Partners and included participation from EDO’s existing investors. The company will use the proceeds

In the first half of 2011, China-based companies with venture backing raised USD3.2 billion through 145 deals, a 1% decline in deal activity and 2% decline in capital invested over the same period in 2010, according to venture capital industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource.   Initial public offerings (IPOs) of

CME Group and the Mexican Derivatives Exchange (MexDer) have launched a north-to-south order routing agreement, giving customers in the US access to MexDer’s benchmark derivatives contracts, including Mexican Stock Exchange Index Futures, Bond Futures and MXN Peso/US Dollar Futures Contracts. The first phase of the project, CME Group strategic partnership