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Buyout firms Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone are in advanced talks to acquire Smartsheet, in a deal that could value the collaboration-software maker at close to $8 billion, people familiar ...
Buyout firm Blackstone is weighing strategic options, including a sale, for Liftoff that could value the mobile app marketing provider at more than $4 billion, including debt, two people familiar ...
By Rishi Kant (Reuters) -Workplace collaboration software maker Smartsheet will be taken private by Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone in a deal worth $8.4 billion, the companies said on Tuesday ...
PAI buyout funds since inception Fund name Vintage Total commitment Focus Status PAI LBO Fund 1998 €650 million Buyout Liquidated PAI Europe III 2001 €1.8 billion Buyout Liquidated PAI Europe IV 2005 €2.7 billion Buyout Liquidated PAI Europe V [16] 2008 €2.7 billion Buyout Exit phase PAI Europe VI [17] 2015 €3.3 billion Buyout Exit phase
Blackstone was originally formed as a mergers and acquisitions advisory boutique. It advised on the 1987 merger of investment banks E. F. Hutton & Co. and Shearson Lehman Brothers, collecting a $3.5 million fee. [8] [9] Blackstone co-founder Peter Peterson was the former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers.
Diagram of the basic structure of a generic leveraged buyout transaction. Leveraged buyout (LBO) refers to a strategy of making equity investments as part of a transaction in which a company, business unit, or business asset is acquired from the current shareholders typically with the use of financial leverage. [13]
The recent stock market correction has been brutal for The Blackstone Group (BX). Since mid-April, the firm's shares have gone from $15.25 to $10.58. On Thursday, though, the alternative asset ...
Blackstone Group The Cypress Group Trilantic Capital Partners: New York New York New York: 1985 1994 1986 1985 1994 2009 Lloyds Banking Group: Lloyds Development Capital: London: 1981 na Macquarie Group: Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets: Sydney: 1994 na Merrill Lynch: Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity: New York: 1996 na Morgan Stanley ...