Plug is pulled on Blackstone deal
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A deal worth $1.8bn involving Blackstone collapses after the private equity firm fails to raise the funds.
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Alliance Data Systems sued the Blackstone Group, seeking to force the private equity firm to complete its $6.4 billion buyout of the company.
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Blackstone Group LP  units tumbled more than 6 percent in Tuesday morning trade, falling below the $31 price the private equity giant fetched in its initial public offering last week.
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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's initial public offering last month, a regulatory filing shows.
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Dept.-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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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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Several U.S. lawmakers yesterday stepped up efforts that could delay the initial public offering of private-equity giant Blackstone Group on the eve of its highly anticipated launch.
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RCN Corp., a cable, telephone and Internet service provider that has struggled to maintain a mid-size foothold in an industry dominated by much larger rivals, hired Blackstone Group to consider a possible sale of the company, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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RCN Corp. RCNI.O, which provides   cable television, phone and Internet service, has hired   Blackstone Group to help it decide whether to put itself up for   sale, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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The Blackstone Group, the private equity firm, bought a 20 percent stake in a Chinese chemical company in its first deal in the country since a Chinese government fund bought into the group. Blackstone, which is based in New York, paid $600 million for the stake in the state-owned China National BlueStar Corporation, the two companies said. The deal, which requires regulatory approval, cements Blackstoneâs status as a central player on the mainland. China National Bluestar is a unit of the China National Chemical Corporation, a state-owned enterprise better known as ChemChina.
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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 United States and China ended talks with unfinished business, as China took a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group.
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Aaron M. Feuerstein's ambitions to buy back control of Malden Mills Industries Inc. suffered a blow recently when a major real estate partner said it was no longer interested in continuing a financing agreement.
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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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Cable television, phone and Internet   service provider RCN Corp. RCNI.O has hired Blackstone Group   to consider the possible sale of the company, a source familiar   with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Buyout firm Blackstone Group   has become the latest to pull out of a consortium  bidding for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd. , a  source said, further boosting the prospects of rival suitor  Wesfarmers Ltd.
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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.