Blackstone to buy Hilton for $20 billion
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group agreed on Tuesday to buy Hilton Hotels Corp. for about $20 billion plus debt, the richest in a series of recent private equity offers for hotel companies.
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The Blackstone Group agreed to buy the Tussauds Group, owner of the Madame Tussauds wax museums, for Â£1 billion ($1.9 billion) in cash.
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Hyatt Corporation, the hotel operator owned by the Pritzker family, yesterday said it would buy the AmeriSuites chain from Blackstone, the private equity group, in a deal believed to be worth about $600m.
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Hilton Hotels Corp.  said on Thursday that it would pay Blackstone Group LP  $560 million if it receives a better offer and terminates a takeover agreement with the private equity company.
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Hyatt Corp. will pay more than $600 million to the Blackstone group for the 143-hotel AmeriSuites chain, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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On Sunday, Equity Office accepted a $36 billion offer from the Blackstone Group. It would be the costliest buyout in history.
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Blackstone Group  said on Monday it plans to invest in recently acquired Hilton Hotels Corp and has no plans to sell any of the company's brands or major assets.
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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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Hilton Hotels Corp.  said on  Thursday that it must pay Blackstone Group  $560 million  if it receives a better offer and terminates a takeover  agreement with the private equity firm.
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Equity Office Properties Trust   shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to approve  Blackstone Group's bid of $23 billion plus the assumption of  debt.
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Blackstone Group  said on Monday  it plans to invest in recently acquired Hilton Hotels Corp and  has no plans to sell any of the company's brands or major  assets.
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The Blackstone Group plans to sell 10 buildings in downtown San Francisco to Morgan Stanley for $2.65 billion.
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The Blackstone Group sold the majority of its property holdings in Germany to institutional investors for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion), the company said yesterday. Blackstone said it had sold a majority stake in its Vitus subsidiary to a consortium including Round Hill Capital and Morley Fund Management, the wealth-management unit of the British insurer Aviva. Blackstone bought Vitus, which has more than 31,000 apartments, from a German holding company, WCM, at the end of 2004.
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US private equity firm Blackstone has had its Â£564m offer for listed UK nursing homes group NHP accepted. The successful completion of the deal would mark a big step forward in its ambition to build one of the UK&#39;s large homes providers.
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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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US private equity group Blackstone is buying the Hilton Hotels chain for $26bn (Â£13bn) in an all-cash deal.
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CHICAGO  - US hotel group Hyatt said it was buying the lodging chain AmeriSuites from the Blackstone investor group as part of its plan to expand the Hyatt brand name.