Credit Card Processor Sues Blackstone to Finish Buyout
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Alliance Data Systems sued the Blackstone Group, seeking to force the private equity firm to complete its $6.4 billion buyout of the company.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing the newspaper tycoon Conrad Black and his former top deputy of defrauding shareholders of Hollinger International Inc. , a publishing company Black used to run.
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American Express said Monday that it had filed suit against Visa International and MasterCard International for imposing rules, later overturned by the courts, that barred tens of thousands of banks from issuing its credit card.
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Conrad Black, the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc., was accused of looting the company he created of $85 million in a federal lawsuit that seeks to block him from keeping control of the company.
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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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Private equity firm Blackstone  Group may try to trump a $21 billion agreed takeover of the No.  1 U.S. hospital chain HCA Inc.  by a consortium of  rivals, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The boss of private equity firm Blackstone is to receive about $450m by selling off some of his stake, it emerges.
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The Blackstone Group had also bid for U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  in the weeks before Archstone agreed to acquired by affiliates of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  and Tishman Speyer for more than $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on 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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NEW YORK: American Express Company, the travel and financial services giant, said yesterday it was suing Visa and MasterCard over anti-competitive business practices.
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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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The credit card services provider said it has received notice from Blackstone that the private equity firm does not expect to complete the deal.
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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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Suit also alleges that PSI, a maker of servers that run IBM's mainframe software, has broken a customer agreement.
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RCN Corp. RCNI.O, which provides   cable television, telephone and Internet services, has hired   Blackstone Group to help it decide whether to put itself up for   sale, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Conrad Black&#39;s legal woes piled up yesterday when the United States&#39; financial watchdog filed a civil lawsuit against him, alleging that the former Daily Telegraph tycoon used the company, Hollinger International, as a &quot;personal piggybank&quot;.
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American Express Co. (AXP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday sued credit card associations Visa and MasterCard and eight banks for damages from what it called