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- Blackstone to Acquire GSO; Announces $500 Million Unit Repurchase Program
- NEW YORK -- The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX; www.blackstone.com) announced that Blackstone and GSO Capital Partners LP have agreed in principle on terms under which Blackstone will acquire GSO. GSO is an alternative asset manager specializing in the leveraged finance marketplace, with approximately $10 billion under management. It manages...
- Research articles 2008-01-10
- Blackstone denies rumor of Rio Tinto bid
- WASHINGTON AFP — The large US private equity fund, The Blackstone Group, said Monday it was not planning a takeover bid for Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Blackstone issued its denial after Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported earlier Monday that the private equity firm was preparing "an audacious break-up...
- Research articles 2007-12-10
- Blackstone, China firm in four-billion-dollar bid for Nufarm: report
- BEIJING AFP — US private equity giant Blackstone has joined forces with China National BlueStar to bid nearly four billion dollars for Australian agro-chemical firm Nufarm, the Financial Times reported Friday. Blackstone and the Chinese chemical maker, in which it holds a 20-percent stake, last month expressed an interest...
- Research articles 2007-11-02
- Hilton Hotels Corporation Appoints Christopher Nassetta as President and CEO
- Blackstone Reaffirms Ambitious Growth Strategy BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. & NEW YORK -- Hilton Hotels Corporation ("Hilton") and The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) ("Blackstone") today announced the appointment of Christopher J. Nassetta as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hilton. Mr. Nassetta currently leads Host Hotels and Resorts, the largest owner...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Tilting at windmills
- The trap Senator Carl Levin recently added his voice to those demanding the removal of Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq's prime minister. This worries me, because Levin is one of the most respected Democrats in the Senate, and he has set a trap for himself. If al-Maliki is replaced, Levin...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Wall St. lower as consumer confidence tumbles
- NEW YORK AFP — Wall Street shares fell sharply Tuesday after a monthly survey showed US consumer confidence -- a key gauge of economic well-being -- tumbled amid a deepening housing market crisis. At 1512 GMT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down a hefty 122.50 points (0.92 percent)...
- Research articles 2007-08-28
- FTSE gains on hotel deal.
- Blackstone's $26bn purchase of Hilton Hotels spurs gains in leisure stocks. Plus a business press round-up Jonathan Eley London equities made further progress on Wednesday, with leisure stocks energised by news of Blackstone's purchase of Hilton. The FTSE 100 started the session up 0.3...
- Research articles 2007-07-04
- Hotel Workers Union Applauds Blackstone-Hilton Combination
- To: LABOR EDITORSContact: Bruce Raynor, General President, +1-347-371-3755, or John W. Wilhelm, President-Hospitality Industry, +1-202-841-6221, both of UNITE HERE NEW YORK, July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The hotel workers union -- UNITE HERE -- applauded the prospect of a major new player in the worldwide hospitality industry today when Blackstone announced...
- Research articles 2007-07-03
- Blackstone in the firing line on eve of listing.
- Byline: Robert Guy Jun 20, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Private equity group, Blackstone, is preparing to list on the New York Stock Exchange, after raising $US4.75 billion. In late June 2007, it appears that Blackstone and its adviser,...
- Research articles 2007-06-20
- China to invest three billion dollars in Blackstone
- BEIJING AFP — A new Chinese investment company charged with handling the nation's bulging reserves has agreed to invest three billion dollars in US private equity company Blackstone, the American company said. "The two companies signed a final agreement on Sunday in Beijing," Wu Kejia, a spokeswoman with Blackstone,...
- Research articles 2007-05-20
- Washington urges China to open market further
- POTSDAM, Germany AFP — Washington on Saturday implicitly called on China to make its economy more accessible to US investment after Beijing said it would entrust US private equity company Blackstone with 3.0 billion dollars (2.2 billion euros) to manage. US Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, speaking to reporters...
- Research articles 2007-05-19
- KKR's Big Plans
- Henry Kravis is, at long last, taking buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts public but a look at the deal and the firm's ambitions means management may want it to look more like BlackRock than Steve Schwarzman's Blackstone. When Blackstone went public last year, it was a spectacle as dollar signs...
- Articles 2008-07-28
- The law: presidential inherent power: the "sole organ" doctrine.
- The executive branch relies in part on the "sole organ" doctrine to define presidential power broadly in foreign relations and national security, including assertions of an inherent executive power that is not subject to legislative or judicial constraints. The doctrine draws from a statement by John Marshall as a member...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Profiles of the 100 largest plan sponsors.(The P&I 1000)
- 42 Retirement Systems of Alabama Millions Total assets $29,103 Defined benefit $28,098 Defined contribution $1,005 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions $684 Benefit payments $1,846 Asset...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- Wanna Buy a Bridge To Big–Time Debt?
- It's the happiest of New Year's on Wall Street, which is positively awash in money. No, I'm not talking about the jaw-dropping eight-digit bonuses at Goldman Sachs or the even bigger unpublicized paydays for heavy hitters at some hedge funds and private equity houses. Rather, I'm talking about the money...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Atos Origin shares surge on takeover report
- PARIS AFP — The price of shares in French IT consultancy giant Atos Origin leapt on a press report that the company might be acquired by US investment fund Blackstone in a multi-billion-euro dollar deal, traders said. The report in the British daily newspaper City A.M. said that Atos and...
- Research articles 2006-10-19
- How to remove a federal judge.
- Most everyone assumes that impeachment is the only means of removing federal judges and that the Constitution's grant of good-behavior tenure is an implicit reference to impeachment. This Article challenges that conventional wisdom. Using evidence from England, the colonies, and the revolutionary state constitutions, the Article demonstrates that at the...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- LEGAL MEANING OF "COMMERCE" IN THE COMMERCE CLAUSE, THE
- Commerce, Commercium Traffick, Trade or Merchandise in Buying and Selling of Goods. See Merchant. Merchant, Mercator Is one that buys and trades in any Thing . . . . But every one that buys and sells is not. . . a Merchant; only those who traffick in the Way of...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Jury weighs whether Moussaoui lives, dies
- A federal court jury began deliberating the fate of Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday after prosecutors cited the confessed al-Qaeda operative's own testimony as proof that he lied to allow the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to move forward. Moussaoui's attorneys countered by turning on their own client, describing him as...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- The constitutional status of tort law: due process and the right to a law for the redress of wrongs.
- In our legal system, redressing private wrongs has tended to be the business of tort law, itself traditionally a branch of the common law. But do individuals have a "vested interest" in law that redresses wrongs? If so, do state and federal governments have a constitutional duty to provide that...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
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