Archive for the ‘Private Equity’ Category

Why aren’t people buying Blackstone?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

The simple answer is that there is a credit crunch in the US right now, but still given their success in China I have been wholly baffled at the inability of Blackstone to trade at any levels near their IPO price. As most people probably know, Blackstone opened trading back in ...

Blackstone-ChinaChem Tagteam: PE Watershed?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

It was announced on Monday that China National Chemical is looking to buy Australia's Nufarm, a farm chemical company, teaming up with Blackstone and Fox Paine to make the deal. It's the first time a Chinese company has gone in with a private equity firm (or two, in this case) ...