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…
Douglas A. McIntyre Most of the news about private equity operations has been bad. Tight credit markets. Broken deals. Buy-outs closed but in trouble because of large debt loads. Silver Lake, one of the largest…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Blackstone (BX) and GE (GE) buy-out of mortgage and vehicle leasing company PHH fell apart. The reason given was lack of availability of financing. In truth, PHH (PHH) is in a…
This is not every bit of news on individual stocks but this is the major news affecting many shares in pre-market activity this Thursday morning: Accenture (ACN) stock up 4% after posting…
We have been pretty critical of the ratings agencies not being on their toes and calling on things far too late. In fact, I have been an anti-fan of theirs all the…
The Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) this morning announced that it has closed upon the Blackstone Credit Liquidity Partners L.P. and has secured capital commitments of more than $1.3 Billion. If you look at…
Blackstone (BX) is making a bid for miner Rio Tinto (RTP), at least according to The Telegraph. Rio has a market cap of over $150 billion, and will probably be sold at…
According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will writes down about $10 billion in subprime financial instrument and raise new capital from sources including the Singapore government. Reuters reports that Blackstone (BX) is preparing…
BHP Billiton (BHP) may not get to buy Rio Tinto (RTP). Blackstone (BX) may beat them too it. According to the Telegraph, Blackstone is gettng together a group which may include an…
The Dubai International Capital fund has $15 billion to invest. Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state-owned investment company, just put $2 billion into a new investment vehicle in China. According to the IHT "the…
A booming market in widgets makes most widget company management look good. It turns out to be the same with private equity. The people who run Blackstone (BX) looked like rocket scientists…
According to Reuters, OPEC will probably keep oil output at current levels. Reuters writes that a goverment plan to help sub-prime borrowers will probably freeze their rates for five years. Reuters writes…
Buy-out firms like KKR and Blackstone (BX) are buying back the debt that their banks took on for LBOs over the last nine months. Big commercial banks like Citigroup and JP Morgna…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yesterday morning 24/7 Wall St. covered how the buyout for Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE:ACS) was for all practical purposes looking like toast, and we wanted to see which other pending deals were…
China’s Social Security Fund, which manages over $61 billion in assets, appears to have an aggressive interests in getting further into the US private equities markets. Talks have slowed somewhat because the…
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