Blackstone Alliance to Buy Chip Maker for $17.6 Billion
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In a rare buyout battle, a Blackstone-led alliance said it won the bidding for chip maker Freescale Semiconductor.
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone  Group  said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp.   for about $26 billion cash.
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Blackstone Group  has agreed to buy 20 percent of chemical maker China National BlueStar (Group) Corp for up to $600 million, the private equity groups said on Monday, marking its first major investment in the fast-growing market.
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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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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.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group has emerged as a leading contender to buy the troubled U.S. division of German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG , The Detroit News reported on its Web site on Saturday, citing people familiar with the situation.
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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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A unit of private equity giant Blackstone Group  will buy knee and ankle brace maker DJO Inc.  for $1.3 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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A unit of private equity giant  Blackstone Group  will buy knee and ankle brace maker DJO  Inc.  for $1.3 billion, the companies said on Monday.
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Alliance Data Systems Corp , a credit card transaction processor, became the latest leveraged buyout to encounter turmoil on Monday, as it said a $6.76 billion buyout by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP  was in jeopardy for regulatory reasons.
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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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Intel said Monday it plans to buy a $218.5 million stake in the software firm VMware, bolstering the companies' existing agreement to run VMware's virtualization software on Intel's processors.
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp. for about $26 billion cash, the richest deal in a series of recent private equity offers for hotel companies.
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group  plans to take a 20 to 40 percent stake in chemical maker China National BlueStar (Group) Corp for up to $500 million, a source close the to deal said on Thursday.
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The chip company makes a major deal to reach a new market.
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Alliance Data Systems Corp , a  provider of transaction, credit and marketing services, on  Monday said its $6.76 billion buyout by private equity firm  Blackstone Group LP  is in jeopardy.
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Texas Instruments Inc., the  largest maker of chips for cellular phones, on Thursday said it  plans to buy back $1 billion in stock and boost its quarterly  dividend by more than 17 percent, becoming the latest  technology company to return extra cash to investors.