Blackstone CEO gala is sign of buyout boom
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Comedian Martin Short, singer Patti LaBelle, two Harlem choirs and a marching band had already warmed up the crowd who gathered to celebrate the birthday of Blackstone Group's chief executive.
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The Motley Fool - On Monday, Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP - News) announced that it had agreed to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion. The terms of the agreement call for Blackstone to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Equity Office at an 8.5% premium over its closing price on November 17, 2006.
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Private-equity giant Blackstone Group said yesterday that it had created the world's second-largest theme park group behind Walt Disney Co. with its $1.9 billion buyout of Madame Tussauds waxworks museums.
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Blackstone Group LP priced its initial public offering at the top end of the range on Thursday, even as lawmakers pushed for its delay, raising $4.13 billion in the largest U.S. IPO since 2002.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group  won control of Equity Office Properties Trust  on  Wednesday after a majority of the top U.S. office landlord's  shareholders accepted Blackstone's cash bid of $23 billion, and  rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  dropped out.
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World stock markets rose Wednesday and European indexes were buoyed after Hilton Hotels agreed to be bought by the equity firm the Blackstone Group.
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Shares in US private equity giant Blackstone surge as much as 45% on their first day of trading in New York.
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Blackstone Group LP raised its cash offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $39 billion with assumed debt to thwart rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust a day before shareholders vote on what would be the largest-ever leveraged buyout.
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Blackstone Group LP  units rose 13 percent in their first day of trading on Friday, as the first major U.S. private-equity firm went public and minted billions of dollars of new wealth for its founders.
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Blackstone Group LP, the private equity firm that bought Equity Office Properties Trust in the biggest leveraged buyout ever, has sold 53 buildings in Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., and Seattle for $7.55 billion, said three people with direct knowledge of the transactions.
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Units of giant private equity firm Blackstone Group LP  surged more than 20 percent in their market debut Friday, a day after pricing at the top of the initial public offering's forecast range.
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WASHINGTON - Blackstone Group LP is among the buyout firms that have spent millions this year trying to kill a proposed tax increase. Now, they're working on a plan B: asking Congress to delay the pain for as long as a decade.
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The Blackstone Group agreed to buy GSO Capital Partners as it seeks to build its credit operations amid tough market conditions.
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Business & money: Blackstone, Group one of the most powerful names in private equity, ordered to reveal finances.
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Blackstone Group shares rose 13 percent in their stock market debut Friday, as investors scrambled for a piece of the sixth-richest initial public offering in U.S. history.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group   is expected to name Host Hotels & Resorts Inc   chief executive Christopher Nassetta as president and CEO of  its recently acquired Hilton Hotels Corp, the Wall Street  Journal reported on Monday.
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Blackstone Group issued compensation details for the first time on Monday, disclosing in a filing that CEO Stephen Schwarzman received nearly $400 million last year and stands to make at least $450 million after the private equity firm goes public.