nyse clny industry private equity real estate founded 1991 founder thomas j. barrack jr. headquarters los angeles california united states products real estate website colonyinc.com colony capital is an american international investment firm based in los angeles california . 1 the company founded in 1991 has over 300 employees operating in 14 offices around the world . the company focuses on real estate opportunities around the world either on its own through funds run by the company or in joint ventures . in particular colony invests in real estate and real estate related debt investments real estate dependent operating companies non performing loans distressed assets and select development opportunities throughout the world . the company is run by businessman thomas j. barrack jr. in 2010 colony was reported to manage about 30 billion in investments . 2 in 2011 colony was tied for 3rd largest private equity real estate fund in the world behind blackstone group and morgan stanley real estate . 3 contents 1 history 2 types of investments 2.1 investment funds 2.2 casinos and hotels 2.3 other investments 3 former properties 4 references history edit colony purchased raffles international on july 18 2005 . this included the 41 hotels and resorts operated under the raffles hotel and swissotel brand names . there are plans to expand the chains particularly in asia . citation needed on january 30 2006 it acquired fairmont hotels and resorts of toronto ontario with kingdom hotels international as a joint partner for us 3.24 billion . citation needed on april 10 2006 it acquired french professional football team paris saint germain . citation needed on february 25 2007 it signed a definitive agreement to take station casinos private in a 75 % 25 % split with members of the founding fertitta family for us 5.5 billion or us 90 share . the subsequent economic downturn caused station casinos to declare bankruptcy in 2009 and when it emerged in 2011 colony capital owned a much smaller portion after providing more cash . 4 5 6 founder chairman and ceo thomas barrack said it could have been the worst investment ever in terms of timing . 7 on november 11 2008 michael jackson transferred the title of his 2 700 acre 2 estate neverland ranch to sycamore valley ranch company llc a joint venture between jackson represented by attorney l. londell mcmillan and an affiliate of colony capital . 8 9 10 11 it is still unclear if the colony capital still has a part in the property . 12 jackson earned a total of us 35 million when he agreed for the joint venture between himself and colony capital . 13 14 in march 2010 colony arranged a financing and marketing package for annie leibovitz . the new york celebrity photographer had been in financial difficulty and in danger of losing the rights to her photographs and negatives and her three greenwich village townhouses to her previous lender artcapital . artcapital s credit was for 24 million . 2 in december 2010 colony purchased miramax from disney with qatar investment authority tutor saliba corporation and the weinstein company as part of a joint venture called filmyard holdings for 663 million . 15 16 types of investments edit investment funds edit the traditional investment portfolio at colony are their investment funds in which retail investors pool their funds such as with mutual funds and includes colony ii colony iii colony iv colony v colony vi colony vii colony viii colony distressed debt fund l.p. colony distressed debt fund ii l.p. colony asia investors i l.p. colyzeo investors l.p. colyzeo investors ii l.p. colony realty partners l.p. colony realty partners ii l.p. colony realty partners iii l.p. colony american homes casinos and hotels edit a large part of colony llc investment portfolio involved gaming resorts mainly in the united states . some were joint projects with accor casinos . resorts international holdings was created in july 2005 and was headquartered in las vegas nevada atlantic city hilton las vegas hilton bally s casino tunica colony was also involved in investing in luxury hotels and resorts in asia and north america raffles international raffles hotels & resorts fairmont hotels and resorts swissotel other investments edit used to co own the paris st. germain football team . 17 former properties edit resorts east chicago now ameristar casino east chicago resorts atlantic city foreclosed references edit colony capital inc contact . www.colonyinc.com . retrieved 2015 08 26 . a b c private equity firm snaps up chance to help leibovitz put house in order by henny sender financial times march 9 2010 02 00 retrieved 2010 03 09 . perenews.com station casino family to remain in control . the wall street journal . august 7 2010 . law360.com jinks beth ; church steven june 17 2011 . station casinos exits bankruptcy after almost two years in chapter 11 . bloomberg . perenews.com taletela.com michael jackson s neverland ranch is sold tmz.com neverland may be jacko s ticket to vegas ukpress.google.com jacko gives up neverland ranch deed archived december 15 2008 at the wayback machine . news.yahoo.com michael jackson gives neverland to corporation sbcvote.com eonline.com michael jackson lets neverland fly away smh.com.au neverland peters out for pop s peter pan ben fritz december 6 2010 . the business behind the show . los angeles times . claudia eller december 3 2010 . the business behind the show . los angeles times . le qatar sans limite . le parisien . 7 march 2012 . retrieved 7 march 2012 . v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title colony capital & oldid 743512011 categories companies based in los angelesprivate equity firms of the united statesreal estate and property developerscompanies listed on the new york stock exchangehidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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