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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New legislation could increase taxes on publicly traded private equity firms and hedge funds, a move that could dampen interest in the Blackstone Group.
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Partners of private equity firm  Blackstone Group 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, the New York Times reported on Friday.
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The partial stock market listing of private equity giant Blackstone is set to proceed despite political concerns.
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For most taxpayers, the IRS isn't the only game in town.
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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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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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BURLINGTON -- For two weeks Governor Deval L. Patrick has been talking tough about cracking down on companies exploiting what he calls corporate tax loopholes to save over $300 million a year in state taxes.
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Friday that its board of trustees has voted to reaffirm its support for a $54 per share takeover offer from private equity firm The Blackstone Group, despite a higher competing bid from Vornado Realty Trust.
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Blackstone Group's  initial public offering is seeing heavy demand from investors vying for shares of the biggest U.S. IPO in five years, which is expected to price on Thursday.
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Blackstone Group plans to sell some  New York office buildings it is acquiring from Equity Office  Properties Trust  to Macklowe Properties for about $7  billion, a source close to the deal said on Wednesday.
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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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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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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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Distributing a lavish dividend may not best serve shareholders.
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Blackstone Group LP , which is  preparing to go public, said on Friday that proposed U.S.  Senate legislation on the taxation of private equity firms  could materially increase its tax liability and lower the  partnership&#39;s value.
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Equity Office Properties Trust said on Friday it still preferred a $54-per-share cash offer from private equity firm Blackstone Group, despite a higher cash-and-stock bid of $56 per share from Vornado Realty Trust.