Blackstone Unit to Buy DJO
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The knee and ankle brace maker said it agreed to be bought by the medical device maker ReAble Therapeutics for about $1.6 billion including debt.
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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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Vornado Realty Trust  said on Wednesday it 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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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group said on Tuesday it would buy Hilton Hotels Corp. for about $26 billion cash, the richest in a series of recent private equity offers for hotel companies.
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Pinnacle Foods Corp., the maker of Duncan Hines baking mixes, Vlasic pickles and Aunt Jemima breakfast foods, has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Blackstone Group  for $1.2 billion, Pinnacle said on Monday.
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MILAN/LONDON  - Private equity firm Blackstone Group  is in talks to buy a minority stake in Italy's No. 2 fixed-line phone operator Wind, two years after it lost out in a bid battle for the company, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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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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JDS Uniphase (JDSU) is buying optical transceiver maker PicolightÂ  to serve the growing market for high-speed data connections in data centers, enterprises, and metropolitan-area networks.
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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 sold the majority of its property holdings in Germany to institutional investors for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion), the company said yesterday. Blackstone said it had sold a majority stake in its Vitus subsidiary to a consortium including Round Hill Capital and Morley Fund Management, the wealth-management unit of the British insurer Aviva. Blackstone bought Vitus, which has more than 31,000 apartments, from a German holding company, WCM, at the end of 2004.
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Hyatt Corporation, the hotel operator owned by the Pritzker family, yesterday said it would buy the AmeriSuites chain from Blackstone, the private equity group, in a deal believed to be worth about $600m.
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The real estate community is talking about how private firms are gobbling up publicly traded real estate investment trusts. The latest example is Blackstone Group's agreement last week to pay $36 billion for Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, whose seven buildings in the District include...
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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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This IPO is a killer deal for private equity group Blackstone. But what about others?
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Blackstone Group said it would buy GSO Capital Partners, a fund manager focused on leveraged finance, for as much as $930 million in cash and Blackstone units.
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The Blackstone Group agreed to buy GSO Capital Partners as it seeks to build its credit operations amid tough market conditions.
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U.S. antitrust authorities said on Tuesday they had approved plans by Blackstone Group LP  to buy Alliance Data Systems Corp.  for $6.76 billion.