A unit of Blackstone Group has acquired a stake in Mavik Capital Management, which, according to Bloomberg, is seeking to capitalize on "significant stress" brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The stake is described as a "small, passive" one through its secondaries business, people familiar with the transaction told Bloomberg. 

Separately, a Securities and Exchange filing shows that MAVIK Capital Management, an entity controlled by Vikram S. Uppal, the CEO of Terra Property Trust, acquired the outstanding interests in Terra Capital Partners. As part of the recapitalization, "a private fund managed by a division of a publicly-traded alternative asset manager with more than $500 billion in assets under management, acquired a passive interest consisting of "non-voting securities,"….in MAVIK." 

Blackstone, of course, has stakes in a wide array of commercial real estate interests from logistics to hospitality to single family homes. And distress in the commercial real estate market has been widely expected since the start of the pandemic.