Bain Capital late on Friday announced a binding offer equivalent to $4 billion for Japan’s Fuji Soft, heightening a battle with US private equity rival KKR for the software maker.
Bain is offering to pay JPY 9,450 ($63) per share… Read More>>
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Bain Capital late on Friday announced a binding offer equivalent to $4 billion for Japan’s Fuji Soft, heightening a battle with US private equity rival KKR for the software maker.
Bain is offering to pay JPY 9,450 ($63) per share… Read More>>

M&G Real Estate is ramping up in Asia Pacific residential after winning a $250 million commitment to the sector from its parent group’s life business.
The property division of British insurer and asset manager M&G has furthered its exposure with… Read More>>

Scottish asset manager Abrdn is expanding its real estate business in Japan with a residential investment mandate to be managed on behalf of Dutch pension investor PGGM.
To lead the expansion, Abrdn has appointed former Idera Capital Management executive Harumi… Read More>>

CapitaLand Ascott Trust has sold a serviced apartment block in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto to Hilton’s vacation-home brand for JPY 6.2 billion ($42 million).
The 124-unit Citadines Karasuma-Gojo Kyoto was divested at 40.1 percent above its book value and… Read More>>

Singapore’s Invictus Developments has entered Japan with the acquisition of the Lyf Ginza Tokyo hotel, after the country logged $2.6 billion of hotel transactions in the first half of the year, representing a 64 percent year-on-year increase, according to JLL.

Heitman has completed the purchase of three apartment buildings in Osaka, with the US real estate investment manager expanding its Japanese rental residential portfolio after multi-family transactions in the country surged 57 percent year-on-year in the 12 months through 30… Read More>>

Hong Kong-based AB Capital on Tuesday announced the completion of a hotel purchase in Tokyo’s Taito ward, marking the seventh hospitality asset acquired by the Japan-focused fund manager.
The 175-room Vessel Inn Asakusa Tsukuba Express represents the third investment under… Read More>>

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has agreed to acquire a West Tokyo facility for redevelopment into a new data centre, with the SGX-listed REIT’s purchase coming as investors have poured $5.5 billion into Japanese data centre assets so far this year,… Read More>>

KKR’s Japan-focused commercial REIT plans to acquire four properties in Greater Tokyo and Osaka for a total of JPY 57.1 billion ($390 million), led by the purchase of a large mall in Chiba prefecture.
Japan Metropolitan Fund has agreed to… Read More>>

Japanese property and infrastructure firm Ichigo will launch its fifth residence token next month, with the digital security to be backed by seven Tokyo assets collectively valued at JPY 11.4 billion ($79 million).
Issued through the Osaka Digital Exchange, the… Read More>>