Autodesk Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost. Autodesk this week agreed to buy construction software company PlanGrid for $875 million. The San Francisco-based start-up previously raised $69 million in funding from investors including YCombinator, Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. PlanGrid enables real-time construction tracking for contractors and and architects. Autodesk ... Read More »

Most of the world welcomed the 2017 new year on Jan. 1, but the holiday falls on a different date in Chinese culture. Also referred to as Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar, so the date changes annually. The 2017 Chinese New Year begins ... Read More »

The government’s decision to withdraw notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 was intended to attack the black economy. A natural corollary to this was a likely hit to the real sector, which, for long, has been considered a refuge for unaccounted money. The trends so far suggest some immediate ... Read More »

HYDERABAD, NOVEMBER 3:   Private equity inflows into real estate increased 22 per cent to Rs.28,300 crore (USD 4.24 billion) as of September 30 2016, up from Rs. 23,200 crore (USD 3.60 billion) recorded during the same period last year. Real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield in its report on Private ... Read More »

Duke Energy announced it has reached an agreement to sell its international businesses in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina to I Squared Capital for approximately $1.2 billion enterprise value (cash and the assumption of debt). This represents the full remainder of the Latin American businesses Duke Energy ... Read More »

Duke Energy Corp. has reached deals to sell the bulk of its international energy business for about $2.4 billion, roughly the lowered value of the businesses in its books. Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke, which last year bought Piedmont Natural Gas as it shifted focus to its regulated utilities business in the ... Read More »

Duke Energy Corp. has reached deals to sell the bulk of its international energy business for about $2.4 billion, roughly the lowered value of the businesses in its books. Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke, which last year bought Piedmont Natural Gas as it shifted focus to its regulated utilities business in the ... Read More »

Brexit means Brexit is the slogan of Theresa May’s new government, but more than a month after the seismic decision to leave the EU, no one knows what Brexit means. Only one thing is sure – unpicking Britain’s membership will be a monumental task requiring years of arduous and painstaking ... Read More »

New Delhi: Picture this: You’re planning to buy a home, and have scooped up your savings, secured bank finance, and struck a deal with a seller: A decision that would lead to a monthly drain on your finances for over a decade. Would you trust a property broker ill-educated in ... Read More »

In last week’s Notebook, we predicted that multifamily property sales in the Twin Cities metro are likely to eclipse last year’s record for total sales volume and that many of those deals are by well-funded national investment firms. Aeon, a Twin Cities nonprofit organization, has also been an active and ... Read More »

In last week’s Notebook, we predicted that multifamily property sales in the Twin Cities metro are likely to eclipse last year’s record for total sales volume and that many of those deals are by well-funded national investment firms. Aeon, a Twin Cities nonprofit organization, has also been an active and ... Read More »

If 2015 was a dream year for Wall Street’s top dealmakers, 2016 is starting to take a nightmarish turn. Some of the mega transactions that had champagne corks popping in boardrooms are running into antitrust problems and, in the case of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc’s (PFE.N) $160 billion takeover of ... Read More »