Blackstone

SINGAPORE (Oct 30): Singapore's Keppel Infrastructure Trust said it has been selected as the preferred bidder for Blackstone Group's sale of Australian chemical firm Ixom Holdco.

SINGAPORE (Oct 30): Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT) is reportedly named the official preferred bidder for IXOM, Blackstone’s Australian chemicals business formerly owned by multinational corporation Orica.

(Jan 31): A group led by Blackstone Group agreed to buy a majority stake in Thomson Reuters’s financial and risk unit in a deal that values the business at US$20 billion ($26.1 billion), sealing plans for the firm’s biggest buyout in a decade.

SINGAPORE (Jan 12): Last September, Croesus Retail Trust (CRT) was taken private by Blackstone Group at a higher price than it ever garnered in the public market.

LONDON (Aug 9): Goldman Sachs has sold its remaining stake in British pensions insurance business Rothesay Life to a trio of existing investors including Singapore's sovereign wealth fund a decade after setting up the company.

SINGAPORE (June 23): Almost all the potential bidders for Global Logistic Properties are dropping out as the June 30 deadline approaches, reported The Financial Times.

SINGAPORE (April 3): Singapore’s recent unwinding of some property curbs, which initially appeared to boost prospects for developers, may instead be creating new problems.