Gates firms, executive buy luxury hotel chain
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TORONTO -- Luxury hotel operator Four Seasons Hotels Inc. has agreed to accept a $3.37 billion going-private offer from its chief executive and firms owned by Bill Gates and a Saudi prince.
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Canadian luxury hotelier Four Seasons Hotels Inc.   said on Monday it has agreed to be taken private by a group of investors that includes Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and an investment firm owned by Microsoft Corp.  Chairman Bill Gates.
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Hyatt Corp. on Thursday said it agreed to buy AmeriSuites, an upscale limited-service hotel chain that it said would complement its full-service portfolio.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group  is buying the owner of Madame Tussauds waxworks museums for about 1 billion pounds ($1.9 billion) cash, creating the world's second-biggest theme park group behind Walt Disney Co .
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Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc., a real-estate investment trust specializing in hotels, on Monday said it agreed to buy a 21-hotel portfolio controlled by affiliates of the Fisher Brothers, the Gordon Getty Trust, and George Soros for $85.3 million plus
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The Blackstone Group announced that it would buy Hilton Hotels for $26 billion, or $47.50 a share, a 40 percent premium over its closing price on Monday.
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Private equity firms Madrone Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners agreed to invest $1 billion in closely held Global Hyatt Corp, the hotel company's chairman, Tom Pritzker, said on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- A group led by privately held Colony Capital is close to reaching an agreement to buy the Atlantic City Hilton and three other casinos in the Chicago area and Mississippi for about $1.
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Beacon Capital Partners LLC has agreed to buy Bay Colony Corporate Center, a prominent office complex on Route 128 in Waltham, for $274 million, according to real estate executives involved in the deal.
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The Blackstone Group  said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp.  for about $26 billion in cash.
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Business & money: American private equity company Blackstone swoops on the Hilton Hotels empire.
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Hilton Hotels Corp.  has signed deals with three real-estate groups to develop more than 55 properties in Russia, Britain and parts of Central America, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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Hilton Hotels Corp. said yesterday it had agreed to be acquired by Blackstone Group LP in a transaction valued at $26 billion.
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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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The owners of the venerable Ritz-Carlton Boston hotel, temporary home to royalty and the rich on the Public Garden for 79 years, are negotiating to sell to Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, a luxury chain based in India, according to an executive who was briefed on the talks.
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Real estate investment trust   Hospitality Properties Trust HPT.N on Monday said it agreed   to buy TravelCenters of America Inc., which operates food and   gas service stations along highways, for about $1.9 billion.
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Hyatt broadened its high-end hotel brand Thursday by purchasing the 143-hotel AmeriSuites chain for $600 million. The acquisition from private equity investor Blackstone Group increases Hyatt&#39;s existing 90,000