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Blackstone hires former H&Q pro(2)Former H&Q Asia Pacific managing director Andrew Kuo has joined The Blackstone Group’s growing Hong Kong staff as a managing director for greater China.
- Schwarzman: economic change driving fear of private equity
Blackstone chairman and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has spoken out in the industry’s defence, championing private equity as “a force for good”.
- Blackstone hires Mark Woodward as senior advisor(4)
Blackstone has boosted its capability to join in the technology buyout trend with the appointment of an 30-year industry veteran to source and evaluate deals.
- HBM BioVentures to list
The Swiss venture firm is set to tap the public markets in a rare move, joining the ranks of larger buyout firms that came to market last year.
- Blackstone rectifies ‘regret’ with GSO deal
The alternative investment giant’s $930 million purchase of GSO Capital, a leveraged finance-focussed alternative asset manager, assuages what Stephen Schwarzman called one of the firm’s big regrets: having years ago spun off BlackRock.
- Blackstone hires Mark Woodward as senior advisor(3)
Blackstone has boosted its capability to join in the technology buyout trend with the appointment of an 30-year industry veteran to source and evaluate deals.
- Schwarzman defends sovereign funds
Speaking on a World Economic Forum panel dedicated to sovereign funds, the Blackstone chairman and chief executive praised the funds and likened them to US state pensions as institutional investors.
- PE stocks keep tumbling in US
Shares in Blackstone and Fortress hit new lows today following analyst downgrades, while American Capital announced a $500m programme to repurchase shares trading below net asset value.
- Tishman, Lehman pay $22.2bn for Archstone REIT(4)
Tishman Speyer and Lehman Brothers have purchased Colorado-based REIT Archstone-Smith for $22.2 billion, in one of the largest private equity real estate take-privates since Blackstone’s Equity Office acquisition.