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Blackstone waxes profitable about TussaudsFresh from its $39 billion take-private of Equity Office Properties, Blackstone becomes the world’s second largest operator of tourist attractions and theme parks with a £1 billion deal to buy The Tussauds Group.
- Blackstone jumps on Italian theme park
The US private equity fund has added another attraction to its burgeoning European-focused portfolio, which it has built up through Merlin Entertainments.
- GMG confirms £1.3bn Trader Media buyout talks
Guardian Media Group has confirmed it is in talks with a number of private equity firms about a possible £1.3 billion buyout of its Trader Media Group division.
- Blackstone reaches Pinnacle
The Blackstone Group’s hectic pace of deal-making shows no sign of slowing down, as the buyout group completes a $2.16 billion deal for US group Pinnacle Foods.
- Schwarzman: “KKR destroyed the market for anyone else”
Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman has argued that public markets are not a viable source of capital for buyout firms, suggesting that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s $5 billion listed vehicle soaked up all the available liquidity.
- Blackstone raises the stakes again in EOP battle
Blackstone has hit back at a rival consortium by sweetening its own offer for US real estate business Equity Office Properties, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial shareholder vote.
- KKR, TPG pick up TXU for $45bn
The largest-ever private equity deal follows closely the previous record-holder, this month’s $39bn Blackstone-backed buyout of Equity Office Properties. The new owners of TXU will offer electricity customers price cuts.
- Blackstone leads the bidding for Apax healthcare asset
Blackstone and the Wallenbergs take an early lead in the €3 billion race for Mölnlycke, a Swedish medical products manufacturer.
- Equity Office deal pits friends against friends
The battle over the largest private equity deal yet involves the biggest names in private equity and real estate setting personal relationship aside in favour of a bidding slug-fest.
- Blackstone Group in $3.3bn pharmaceutical deal
Adding to its global pharmaceutical platform, the private equity giant has agreed to buy Ohio-based Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services.