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14 Sep 2007, 8:19 am
The Blackstone Group has notified European Union regulators of its plan to buy Hilton Hotels, setting off an antitrust review of the $20 billion deal, Bloomberg News reported. [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 4:53 am
The Blackstone Group is in talks to buy a minority stake in Italy’s No. 2 fixed-line phone operator Wind, two years after it lost out in a bid battle for the company, according to Reuters. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 10:30 am
When the country’s investment arm took a $3 billion stake in Blackstone Group in June, it essentially bought straight stock at a slight discount, with the voting rights stripped out. [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 5:35 am
The Blackstone Group increased its offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $38.3 billion, or $54 a share, in cash, escalating the stakes in the pitched battle for the country’s largest office landlord. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 7:24 am
Alliance Data Systems on Friday dropped its lawsuit against its would-be buyer, the Blackstone Group, leaving open a path to settlement talks. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 10:45 am
The new (public) Blackstone basically bought the assets of the old (private) Blackstone for $4.75 billion. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 3:17 am by Kevin LaCroix
In a February 10, 2010 opinion (here), the Second Circuit reversed the lower court’s dismissal of the securities class action lawsuit relating to The Blackstone Group’s June 2007 IPO. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 11:19 am
In the case of the Blackstone Group’s initial public offering, one investor’s loss is a founder’s gain, it seems. [read post]
24 Apr 2019, 8:06 am by Race to the Bottom
The Blackstone Group (“Blackstone”), a New York-based financial services firm, announced on March 15, 2019, that it had signed a definitive agreement to purchase Japanese drug maker AYUMI Pharmaceutical Corporation (“AYUMI”). [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 6:30 am by Mitra Sharafi
 The second group of essays traces the nature and dimensions of Blackstone's impact in various jurisdictions outside England, namely Quebec (Michel Morin), Louisiana and the United States more generally (John W Cairns and Stephen M Sheppard), North Carolina (John V Orth) and Australasia (Wilfrid Prest). [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 5:22 am by Amber Walsh
The Blackstone Group, based in New York, targets investments in established and growth-oriented businesses. [read post]
20 May 2009, 2:48 am
New York - Financial Times v Blackstone Group (online subscription services) and Apis-Hristovich Eood v Lakorda Ad (database right)Farrer & Co LLP"This update looks at the recent filing of a claim by the Financial Times in the New York courts against The Blackstone Group, for alleged sharing of logins and passwords amongst employees to access paid-for online content on FT.com. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 3:17 pm
Observers parsing the Blackstone Group’s first earnings announcement as a public company had a lot to chew on, including its acknowledgment that the buyout boom has gone on hold. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 4:56 am
The Blackstone Group has gotten out its calculator and tallied up the cost of a Congressional proposal to more than double the tax rates buyout firms. [read post]
20 Nov 2006, 3:52 am
The Blackstone Group, a private investment firm, said Sunday that it had agreed to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust, the nation's largest office-building owner and manager, for about $36 billion, including assumed debt. [read post]
28 May 2008, 4:26 am
A new fund management firm backed by the Blackstone Group aims to raise $500 million to $1 billion for the launch an Asia-focused hedge fund in October, two industry sources told Reuters. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 11:23 am
The Blackstone Group IPO is great food for that habit, with a lovely structure that takes advantage of the statutory provision that allows publicly traded partnerships with 90% passive income to enjoy pass-through treatment and avoid the double taxation hit inherent in the corporate income tax. [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 6:02 pm by Andis Kaulins
World Financial Crisis - The Worst is Over Says Blackstone's Schwarzman Jason Kelly writes:"February 26, 2010 from Bloomberg -- Blackstone Group Inc., the world’s biggest private-equity company, paid Chairman Stephen Schwarzman a salary of ....Schwarzman, 63, told investors yesterday that “the worst is over” as markets stabilize and buyout managers are able to sell some assets and make deals. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 5:00 am
Fortress Investment Group's preferred measure of third-quarter profits missed estimates by 30 percent, roughly the same shortfall as the Blackstone Group reported on Monday. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 4:27 am
The Blackstone Group , Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Carlyle Group, three giants of the private equity world, are lining up to bid for the mobile-phone operations that Verizon Wireless is selling following its deal to buy Alltel, according to press reports. [read post]