Blackstone agrees to buy 20 percent of China BlueStar
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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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NEW YORK, May 21-- Blackstone Group, the second-largest U.S. private equity firm, said Monday that it planned to raise $3.87 billion to $4.13 billion in an initial public offering this year.
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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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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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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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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U.S.-based private equity firm Blackstone Group  appears to have killed three birds with one stone by selling a nearly 10 percent stake to China for $3 billion in May.
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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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SINGAPORE Star Cruises, the world&#39;s third-largest cruise line operator, said Monday that it would buy about 20 percent of Valuair, a Singapore-based budget carrier, for an undisclosed amount.
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Blackstone Group LP, the private equity firm that bought Equity Office Properties Trust in the biggest leveraged buyout ever, has sold 53 buildings in Washington, D.C., Portland, Ore., and Seattle for $7.55 billion, said three people with direct knowledge of the transactions.
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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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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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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AU) may acquire up to 20% of mid-sized Chinese bank Jinan City Commercial Bank to secure a foothold in China&#39;s growing finance services sector.
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An online education deal is being signed between firms in the UK and China - with plans to reach 20 million students.
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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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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country's largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank
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US private equity group Blackstone is buying the Hilton Hotels chain for $26bn (Â£13bn) in an all-cash deal.