Demand heavy for Blackstone IPO despite tax bill
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Blackstone Group's initial public offering is seeing heavy demand from investors vying for shares of the biggest U.S. IPO in five years, which is expected to price on Thursday.
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Units of Blackstone Group LP  fell on Monday in their second day of trading, as concerns about valuation set in after the private equity giant's highly publicized market debut.
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Tuesday that the Blackstone Group  raised the price of its takeover bid to $55.50 per share, after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer.
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U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman  of the Senate Banking Committee, said on Tuesday he plans to  look at the potential impact of legislation that would sharply  raise taxes on private equity firms going public, such as  Blackstone Group LP .
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Friday that its board of trustees has voted to reaffirm its support for a $54 per share takeover offer from private equity firm The Blackstone Group, despite a higher competing bid from Vornado Realty Trust.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group won a 3-month bidding war to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust  on Wednesday after a majority of the top U.S. office landlord's shareholders accepted Blackstone's $23 billion bid and Vornado Realty Trust  dropped out.
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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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Shares of private equity giant Blackstone Group bucked the general market retreat in their debut on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, surging $4.06, or 13.1 percent, to close at $35.06.
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The Blackstone Group  raised its bid for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $23 billion in cash on Tuesday after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer in the latest round of the fight to control the top U.S. office landlord.
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NEW YORK -- Blackstone Group LP, the investment firm known for making billion-dollar bets to buy huge companies and take them private, jumped almost 20 percent Friday in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
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U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said on Tuesday he plans to look at the potential impact of legislation that would sharply raise taxes on private equity firms going public, such as Blackstone Group LP .
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The Blackstone Group won the bidding war for Equity Office in the biggest leveraged private equity buyout ever.
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Partners of private equity firm  Blackstone Group  may have devised a way to avoid paying  tax on $3.7 billion raised largely in the firm&#39;s initial public  offering last month, according to a regulatory filing.
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The Blackstone Group  raised its bid for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $55.50 per share in cash on Tuesday after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its offer in the latest step in a fight to control the top U.S. office landlord.
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Equity Office Properties Trust said on Friday it still preferred a $54-per-share cash offer from private equity firm Blackstone Group, despite a higher cash-and-stock bid of $56 per share from Vornado Realty Trust.
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The Blackstone Group leads Vornado Realty Trust in the bidding for Equity Office Properties Trust, the nationâs largest office landlord.
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With Blackstone Group  taking heat from investors and lawmakers after its IPO, the man in charge of day-to-day operations faces perhaps the biggest challenge in his more than 30 years on Wall Street.