May 17, 2024
Funds

Haldiram Snacks gets bid from world’s largest PE fund Blackstone-led consortium; valuing business at $8.5 billion

A group led by Blackstone, the biggest private equity fund globally, together with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and GIC of Singapore, made a non-binding offer recently to purchase a majority stake in Haldiram Snacks Food Pvt Ltd (HSFPL), the joint packaged snacks and foods business of the Agarwal family’s Delhi and Nagpur branches, according

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Funds

Hamilton to buy back $110m shares from funds affiliated with Blackstone

Bermuda-headquartered Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. has entered into an agreement to repurchase shares owned by funds affiliated with Blackstone Alternative Solutions LLC (BAS). The transaction includes 9,124,729 Class A common shares which will be purchased at $12.00 per share, totalling $109,496,748. This represents a 12.0% discount to the 30-day volume weighted average price of the

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Finance

Blackstone Makes New $1.5 Billion Proposal to Buy Hipgnosis

(Bloomberg) — Private equity firm Blackstone Inc. made a new proposal worth about $1.5 billion to purchase Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd., topping a bid made last week by music rights investor Concord. Most Read from Bloomberg The company made an improved, fourth proposal on Saturday to acquire the entire issued and to-be-issued share capital of

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Funds

Blackstone Sells $1.1 Billion of Private Equity Fund Stakes to Ares

(Bloomberg) — Blackstone Inc.’s Strategic Partners unit sold a $1.1 billion portfolio of private equity fund interests to Ares Management Corp. Most Read from Bloomberg The portfolio consists of older fund stakes that Strategic Partners had acquired from institutional sellers, according to people with knowledge of the matter, asking not to be identified discussing confidential

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Investors

Investing Wisdom And Life Lessons From Blackstone Billionaire Steve Schwarzman

Steve Schwarzman’s guiding philosophy has always been to “go big,” and despite Blackstone having surpassed $1 trillion in assets, he’s still feeling expansive. By Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes Staff Blackstone’s 77-year old founder and chief executive grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia. From as early as ten-years-old, he would work at his father’s curtains and

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Investors

After Fan Protests, Blackstone Withdraws From Bundesliga Investor Deal

Bayern Munich fans hold up a banner in protest against DFL investor deal during the Bundesliga match … [+] against Bayer Leverkusen. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images) Getty Images A plan by the government body of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) to negotiate a deal with a potential investor hit

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