Vornado out; Blackstone poised to buy Equity Office
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on Wednesday it has terminated its cash and stock proposal to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust , paving the way for private equity firm Blackstone Group to take over the top U.S. office landlord for $23 billion.
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Blackstone Group plans to sell some New York office buildings it is acquiring from Equity Office Properties Trust  to Macklowe Properties for about $7 billion, a source close to the deal said on Wednesday.
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Putnam Investments begins this business day as a company that is very publicly up for sale. Just a block away in Boston's Financial District, a much smaller firm will spend the day discreetly looking for asset managers it can buy into or finance.
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Steven Roth, the tough, entrepreneurial chief executive of giant Vornado Realty Trust , has his sights set on Boston's Suffolk Downs. And it is a better bet than any you could place at the struggling track that the opportunity he sees is not in a bunch of old men shouting at a TV screen and betting two bucks on a ...
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A consortium of investors led by Vornado Realty Trust planned to raise its bid for Equity Office Properties Group to more than $40 billion.
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Och-Ziff files for IPO in wake of less-than-superlative Blackstone offering.
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Carlyle Group , a U.S. private equity firm, is considering a stock market listing similar to last week's initial public offering by rival Blackstone , Dow Jones Newswires reported on Wednesday.
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The real estate community is talking about how private firms are gobbling up publicly traded real estate investment trusts. The latest example is Blackstone Group's agreement last week to pay $36 billion for Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, whose seven buildings in the District include...
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on  Wednesday it has terminated its cash and stock proposal to  acquire Equity Office Properties Trust .
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REIT withdraws offer for Equity Office, bowing out in favor of Blackstone.
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on  Thursday it had raised its takeover offer for Equity Office  Properties Trust  to $56 per share, or $23.24 billion,  above a rival bid of $54 per share from private equity firm  Blackstone Group.
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Blackstone Group plans to name  Hamilton James as president in an executive shuffle that sets a  succession plan at the private equity firm, the Wall Street  Journal reported on Friday.
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roundup Plus: WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million shares...BMC looks to simplify network operations...Data center firms settle cookie suit.
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Vornado Realty Trust modified its $41 billion bid to acquire Equity Office Properties, by paying the cash portion of its offer within a few weeks.
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The partial stock market listing of private equity giant Blackstone is set to proceed despite political concerns.
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PARAMUS, N.J. -- A group led by Vornado Realty Trust boosted its offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $23.24 billion, or $56 per share, in cash and stock on Thursday, topping a private equity firm's buyout bid.
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Blackstone Group's real-estate arm is close to a deal to sell office buildings in Seattle and Washington, D.C., to Beacon Capital Partners, a Boston-based real-estate investment firm, for about $6.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.