Great Hill Partners, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its controlling interest in Ascenty Holdings, LLC, the largest provider of data center and fiber infrastructure services in Brazil, to Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR). The transaction values the company at over $1.8 billion.
BR Properties, a portfolio company of GP Investments, has aqcuired four industrial units located in Centro Empresarial Espaço Gaia Ar in São Paulo from Blackstone. (Finance News) BR Properties (BRPR3) comprou…
Blackstone has announced that Tony James, President and Chief Operating Officer, will be handing over day-to-day management of the firm to Jon Gray, Global Head of Real Estate. Two long-time…
Brazilian private equity firm Pátria Investimentos, owned in part by Blackstone Group, has raised at least US$484m toward its sixth private equity fund. (Press Release) Pátria Investimentos, the Brazilian alternative…
U.S. private equity firms Riverwood Capital Partners and Blackstone have purchased Argentinian telecommunications provider Metrotel from Sociedad Comercial del Plata for US$190m. (El Cronista) El holding Sociedad Comercial del Plata,…
JS Real Estate Multigestão FII paid R$253.8m to acquire 100% of Blackstone’s BRE Ponte II Empreendimentos e Participações S.A., a special purpose vehicle that owned a 64.3% stake in WTorre…
Blackstone’s Fisterra Energy announced the financial closing for the Tierra Mojada combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Guadalajara, Mexico. The power plant will sell exclusively into the new wholesale…
Orion Resource Partners and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund financed Aurelian Ecuador’s Fruta del Norte mining project for approximately US$450m. (LexLatin) El proyecto minero Fruta del Norte, desarrallodo por Aurelian Ecuador…
Blackstone announced that funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities have made an equity investment in Ascenty, a data center & telecom services provider in Brazil. (Press Release) New York, June…
Patria Investimentos and Blackstone bought a 60% stake in Brazilian healthcare group Med Imagem. (Valor Econômico) Os fundos de private equity Patria e Blackstone compraram 60% da Med Imagem, grupo…