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The private equity real estate firm founded three years ago by ex-Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing heads Sonny Kalsi, John Carrafiell and Fred Schmidt has held a first closing for its second US fund and a final closing for its first Japan fund.

The Singapore-based firm has held a final close for Mapletree China Opportunity Fund II (MCOF II) and in the process lays claim to having raised the largest blind-pool, closed-ended opportunistic fund raised so far for the country.

Whye Choong Low has joined the Amsterdam- and Hong Kong- based real estate multi-manager as it seeks to bring together a third Asia fund with a heavy focus on direct investments.

The Miami-based private equity firm, through a joint venture with local developer Grupo IGS, plans to raise its first Mexico-focused vehicle from the country’s pension plans, with an anticipated placement on the Mexican Stock Exchange in early 2014.

The Hong Kong-based private equity real estate firm has now increased the capital pile of its fourth China opportunity fund to $933 million and there are two more investors poised to come in.

The withdrawal of support for troubled Warner Estates from the asset management of a £460 million industrial property fund will see a new manager come in, should investors agree the plan.

With fundraising for its $50 million debut fund wrapping up, the Los Angeles-based investment firm has its second sale-leaseback vehicle in the works, seeking $250 million.

The Chicago-based private equity real estate firm has harvested about a quarter of the assets in its first Mexico fund as it prepares for its largest fundraise to date in the Latin American nation.

The Atlanta-based investment firm has completed the capital raise for its third fund, closing on $107 million from family offices and high-net-worth individuals.

The New York private equity and real estate giant has set a capital-raising target of $5 billion for its fourth European opportunity fund as it nears the sale of one its biggest assets in the region.