Blackstone

Patria Investimentos will purchase newly issued shares and shares from existing shareholders in a follow on investment worth US$126m. Patria acquired a majority stake in Smartfit in 2010. As of…

Blackstone transferred its 35% stake in Brazilian real estate developer Alphaville Urbanismo to its partner Pátria Investimentos. Blackstone and Pátria originally invested R$1.4b in June 2013 for a 70% stake…

Blackstone has plans to buy a stake in US investment fund FRS Capital. The acquisition would gain Blackstone indirect control of a leading Latin American container terminal operator. (Latin Lawyer)…

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…