Tax Loopholes Sweeten a Deal for Blackstone
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As Congress debates taxes on hedge funds and private equity firms, Blackstone has devised a way for its partners to avoid paying taxes on $3.7 billion.
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A twist on tax-loss selling keeps you in the game.
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Friday it still preferred a $54-per-share cash takeover 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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Got an expensive house you want to sell but don't want to pay a bunch of tax on the profit? The Treasury Department has got a deal for you.
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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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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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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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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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WASHINGTON - Blackstone Group LP is among the buyout firms that have spent millions this year trying to kill a proposed tax increase. Now, they're working on a plan B: asking Congress to delay the pain for as long as a decade.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Blackstone Group LP cofounders Stephen Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson have set up a way to offset taxes they pay on gains from the New York buyout firm's $4.75 billion initial public offering last month.
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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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Partners of private equity firm  Blackstone Group LP  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, a regulatory filing shows.
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U.S. tax authorities are seeking  information from two U.S. banks to determine whether complex  derivatives trades they undertook for clients, including hedge  funds, were designed primarily to avoid taxes, the Wall Street  Journal reported in its online edition on Thursday.
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Blackstone Group LP raised its cash offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $39 billion with assumed debt to thwart rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust a day before shareholders vote on what would be the largest-ever leveraged buyout.
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Senate legislation would force Blackstone Group LP to pay taxes as a corporation instead of as a partnership after 2012, a move that may threaten the buyout firm's initial public offering this month.
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Blackstone Group LP , which is preparing to go public later this month, said on Friday that proposed U.S. Senate legislation on the taxation of private equity firms could materially reduce earnings and lower the partnership's value.