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Stonepeak
Stonepeak (also known as Stonepeak Partners and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners) is an American investment firm headquartered in New York City. The firm focuses on investments in infrastructure and more recently real estate. The firm has additional offices in Hong Kong, Houston, London, Sydney and Singapore. In 2022, the firm was ranked by Infrastructure Investor (under ''Private Equity International'') as the sixth largest infrastructure investment firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. Background In 2008, Michael Dorrell and Trent Vichie joined Blackstone Inc. from the Macquarie Group to establish its infrastructure investment unit. In 2011, the unit was spun off as an independent firm named Stonepeak which was based in New York. The firm's debut fund, Stonepeak Infrastructure Fund I raised $1.65 billion with its investors including Washington State, Oregon State, Virginia Retirement System and TIAA. In September 2018, Stonepeak re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astound Broadband
Astound Broadband is an American telecommunications holding company based in Princeton, New Jersey. It was formed on January 24, 2018, with the completion of the $2.36 billion purchase of Kirkland-based Wave Broadband by private-equity firm TPG Capital. TPG combined Wave with its existing combination of Princeton-based RCN Corporation and San Marcos-based Grande Communications, both of which were acquired on February 1, 2017, in a $2.25 billion deal; TPG bought RCN for $1.6 billion and Grande for $650 million. While TPG held the Internet providers as an unnamed collective unit, they somewhat maintained independence from each other despite sharing resources. TPG then expanded the unit with its purchase of Houston-based enTouch Systems on September 18, 2020, for an undisclosed sum. Less than two months later, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners announced on November 1 that it would purchase the unit, by then named Astound after a previous name used by Wave in San Francisco, from TP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolitan Of Las Vegas
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (commonly referred to simply as The Cosmopolitan or The Cosmo) is a resort casino and hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by The Blackstone Group, Stonepeak Partners, and Cherng Family Trust and operated by MGM Resorts International. The resort includes a casino and 3,033 rooms across two towers, as well as a 3,200-seat performance theater and various restaurants. The project was announced in 2004, by a joint venture that included real estate developer Ian Bruce Eichner. Construction on the hotel towers began in April 2007, following excavation work for an underground parking garage. Deutsche Bank helped finance the project, and eventually took over ownership in September 2008, after the original developers defaulted on a loan. The resort's interior underwent several redesigns, and plans to include a condo hotel component were ultimately scrapped. The Cosmopolitan opened on December 15, 2010, and at $3.9 billion, it was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intrado
Intrado, formerly West Corporation, is an American telecommunications company. It was purchased by private equity firm Apollo Global Management on October 11, 2017. Business Operations Intrado is reorganized in five main segments: Cloud Collaboration, Life and Safety (including 911 operations), Enterprise Communications, Digital Media (including streaming operations), and Health and Wellness (including healthcare claims and customer support) in 2019. It spun out its telemarketing brand to West Revenue Generation Services (WRGS), also owned by Apollo Global Management in 2019 History Gary and Mary West co-founded WATS Marketing of America in 1978. The couple left the company in 1985 and Mary West founded West Teleservices with Troy Eaden in 1986. Gary West joined West Teleservices one year later as chairman. During the first decade, West Teleservices hired thousands of employees and reached over $100 million in net proceeds. West Teleservices expanded their products thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teekay
Teekay is a Canadian shipping corporation which specialises in shipping crude oil. History Teekay was founded in 1973 by Torben Karlshoej, then a 31 year old Danish ship broker who had emigrated to the United States at the age of 20 and mostly worked on farms. The company was named "TK" for Karlshoej's initials. It commenced operations by purchasing small second and third hand oil tankers, a lucrative trade due to the high oil prices during the 1973–1974 oil crisis. It maintained a head office in the Bahamas, thus taking advantage of low corporate taxes. Most of its ships were registered in Liberia, thus taking advantage of the comparatively low taxes and the ability to recruit seafarers from across the world. The company grew in the 1980s by operating in the risky waters off Persian Gulf during the Iran–Iraq War. In 2017, Teekay was a joint owner in Bapco, an oil project in Bahrain. Among its former board members are Eileen Mercier, who retired from the board in 2018. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assura Plc
Assura is a British property business headquartered in Altrincham, Greater Manchester that has a focus on investing in buildings used for the healthcare sector. As of June 2025, it owned and operates more than 600 general practitioner and primary healthcare buildings in the UK. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The business was launched as The Medical Property Investment Fund in 2003 and became listed on the London Stock Exchange in that year. The name was changed to Assura Group in 2006. In 2008 the company bought new premises for expansion in Halton. Assura sold its Assura Medical division to Virgin Group in 2010, which rebranded it as Virgin Care. It acquired AH Medical, another primary healthcare business, in 2011. It named Graham Roberts, a former finance director of British Land Company, as chief cxecutive in March 2012. In June 2012 it decided to convert to Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) status. In July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55 Hudson Yards
55 Hudson Yards (originally known as One Hudson Yards or One Hudson Boulevard) is a skyscraper in Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York City, just outside the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project. It and 50 Hudson Yards will add a combined of space to the Hudson Yards project, even though the two buildings are located outside the redevelopment site itself. Formerly, the area was the planned site of the now-canceled World Product Center. Both 55 Hudson Yards and the never-built World Product Center were planned to be located on the site of Copacabana, which was at the site between 2001 and January 20, 2007. Located right above the 34th Street subway entrance on the Hudson Park and Boulevard, 55 Hudson Yards was also formerly the site of a FedEx World Service Center building. 55 Hudson Yards was completed by early 2019, with the first tenants occupying the building by April. Original plans The "World Product Center" was a cancelled project that would have been among the world's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Owl Capital
Blue Owl Capital Inc. is an American alternative investment asset management company. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol: "OWL". The company is headquartered in New York City with additional offices around the world, including London, Dubai, and Hong Kong, among other major cities. In June 2024, Blue Owl Capital ranked 26th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking among the world's largest private equity firms. History In December 2020, it was announced there would be a merger between Owl Rock Capital Group and Dyal Capital Partners. The two firms would combine with a special-purpose acquisition company, Altimar Acquisition Corp to form Blue Owl. The deal was valued at $12.2 billion which included a $1.5 billion commitment from investors such as ICONIQ Capital, Federated Hermes and Liberty Mutual. On May 19, 2021, the transaction was completed and Blue Owl was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. On October 18, 2021, Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global private-equity and investment company. , the firm had completed private-equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately $710 billion of total enterprise value. Its assets under management (AUM) and fee paying assets under management (FPAUM) were $553 billion and $446 billion, respectively. KKR was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts, all of whom had previously worked together at Bear Stearns, where they completed some of the earliest leveraged buyout transactions. Since its founding, KKR has completed a number of transactions, including the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was the largest buyout in history to that point, as well as the 2007 buyout of TXU, which is currently the largest buyout completed to date. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of Geelong
The Port of Geelong is located on the shores of Corio Bay at Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The port is the sixth-largest in Australia by tonnage. Major commodities handled by the port include crude oil and petroleum products, export grain and woodchips, alumina imports, and fertiliser.Geelong port contributes $500mn a year to Victoria '''' 12 September 2005 Major port industries include Graincorp's grain elevator and Viva Energy's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cologix
Cologix, a network neutral interconnection and data center company, runs 40+ interconnection locations across 11 North American markets. The edge markets that Cologix operates in are: Columbus, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Lakeland, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montreal, Quebec; Silicon Valley, California; Toronto, Ontario; Northern New Jersey; and Vancouver, British Columbia. The company supports five Internet exchanges. Network locations United States Columbus Cologix acquired DataCenter.BZ in February 2014, procuring 86,000 square feet across two data center facilities at 555 Scherers Court in Columbus, Ohio. The site is located at the intersection of two trunks of nationwide fiber optic network that carries most Internet transmissions. Cologix is currently building a 160K SQF (half of that raised floor space), 18+MW data center on its existing 8 acre campus in Columbus. The new $130M+ facility will become Columbus's largest neutral data center and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CoreSite
CoreSite, a subsidiary of American Tower, owns carrier-neutral data centers and provides colocation and peering services. As of June 24, 2022 the company owned 27 operating data center facilities in 10 markets comprising over 4.6 million net rentable square feet. The properties are in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Northern Virginia, San Francisco/San Jose, California, Santa Clara, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Orlando, Florida and the Washington, D.C. areas. The company has over 1,350 customers including enterprises, network operators, cloud providers, and supporting service providers. History The company was founded in 2001 as CRG West at two of the West coast's original carrier hotels: Market Post Tower and One Wilshire. In August 2005, the company opened a facility in Washington, D.C. In May 2007, the company acquired properties in Boston and Chicago. It also purchased a tract of land in Santa Clara, with the intent of developing a 50-megawat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investment Management
Investment management (sometimes referred to more generally as financial asset management) is the professional asset management of various Security (finance), securities, including shareholdings, Bond (finance), bonds, and other assets, such as real estate, to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of investors. Investors may be institutions, such as insurance companies, pension funds, corporations, charities, educational establishments, or private investors, either directly via investment contract, contracts/mandates or via collective investment schemes like mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, or REIT, Real estate investment trusts. The term ''investment management'' is often used to refer to the management of investment funds, most often specializing in private equity, private and public equity, real assets, alternative assets, and/or bonds. The more generic term ''asset management'' may refer to management of assets not necessarily primarily held for investment purpos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
