Vornado terminates offer for Equity Office
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Vornado Realty Trust  said on  Wednesday it has terminated its cash and stock proposal to  acquire Equity Office Properties Trust .
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Pope Resources (Nasdaq:POPEZ) announced it has closed on a $7.63 million sale of 17 acres to Costco Wholesale Corporation.
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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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Sale process for stricken bank in disarray as private equity firm fails to submit an offer
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Blackstone Group LP raised its cash offer for Equity Office Properties Trust to $39 billion with assumed debt to thwart rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust a day before shareholders vote on what would be the largest-ever leveraged buyout.
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Mortgage and vehicle fleet company PHH  Corp  said on Tuesday it terminated its nearly $2  billion sale to General Electric Co  and Blackstone,  after the private equity firm failed to obtain required  financing for the deal.
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An investor group that worked for more than a year to buy the state&#39;s third largest electric utility threw in the towel Thursday and pulled its approximately $3 billion offer off the table.
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Google Inc. said on Wednesday that the  auction has closed for its initial public offering.
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Olivant Advisers dropped out of the bidding, saying it failed to come up with an offer that would satisfy both it and the government. The move increased the chances for Richard Bransonâs Virgin Group.
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The Motley Fool - On Monday, Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP - News) announced that it had agreed to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion. The terms of the agreement call for Blackstone to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Equity Office at an 8.5% premium over its closing price on November 17, 2006.
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The two companies came to terms after the board of Advo agreed late Monday to drop its asking price to $33 a share from $37.
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The move is a step sought by two unions in exchange for dropping legal action against the carrier. If the hiring of Bridge Associates LLC is formally approved in bankruptcy court, the move will end a two-month
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The SCO Group has been removed from the Nasdaq Stock Market because the company declared bankruptcy in Septembe...
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Private equity firm Blackstone Group won a 3-month bidding war to acquire Equity Office Properties Trust  on Wednesday after a majority of the top U.S. office landlord's shareholders accepted Blackstone's $23 billion bid and Vornado Realty Trust  dropped out.
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After $536 million deal, Novell agrees to pull out of the European antitrust case
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Company is considering a gradual exit from processor sales.
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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.