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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 ...
Smartsheet will have to pay $250 million to Vista and Blackstone if it cancels the deal, but only $125 million if it finds a better offer during the go-shop period. If Blackstone and Vista back ...
Blackstone Group LP, the world largest alternative asset manager, has raised over $22 billion for its latest buyout fund, setting it on course to be the private equity industry's biggest ever, a ...
Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$400,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023) in seed capital. [2]: 45–56 [3] The founders derived their firm's name from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "Petros", or "Petra" (Πέτρος and πετρα, the masculine and feminine rendering of the word, respectively) means "stone" or ...
Alight was formed in May 2017 after the acquisition of the benefits outsourcing department of Aon Hewitt by private equity funds affiliated with Blackstone Group L.P. [3] [4] It is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. [5] [6] In August 2024, Dave Guilmette was hired as a new CEO of the company. [7]
PAI Partners. BNP Paribas Développement. Paris. Paris. 1993 2016 1998 - BT Alex. Brown ^ ABS Capital: Baltimore: 1990 1995 CIBC World Markets: Trimaran Capital Partners: New York: 1995 2001 Citigroup: Court Square Capital Partners CVC Capital Partners Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. New York Luxembourg France ...
Blackstone has not set a fundraising target, but it anticipates the buyout fund will overtake Apollo Global Management's $24.6 billion fund as the largest ever, the source added.
Selldown of the jumbo $13.5 billion financing backing Blackstone Group’s (BX.N) $20 billion acquisition of a 55 percent stake in Thomson Reuters’(TRI.TO) Financial and Risk unit is under way ...