{"id":10534,"date":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"blackstone-fortress-seek-hedge-fund-takeovers-after-debt-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/blackstone-fortress-seek-hedge-fund-takeovers-after-debt-slump.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone, Fortress Seek Hedge-Fund Takeovers After Debt Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Blackstone Group LP and Fortress Investment Group LLC are seeking to take over credit funds from managers unable to support their businesses after the value of investments fell.             <\/p>\n<p>There are &ldquo;a lot of companies that are on the block,&rdquo; Tony James, Blackstone&rsquo;s president, said on a conference call yesterday with investors. New York-based Blackstone, the world&rsquo;s biggest private-equity company, is &ldquo;looking hard at consolidating acquisitions,&rdquo; he said.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&#038;sid=aOeT.kxQniqA&#038;refer=us\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Blackstone Group LP and Fortress Investment Group LLC are seeking to take over credit funds from managers unable to support their businesses after the value of investments fell. There are &ldquo;a lot of companies that are on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[8382,4483,4481,64,137,3630,2055,1040,1482,4504,11183],"class_list":["post-10534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-equity","category-syndicated","tag-acquisitions","tag-blackstone-group","tag-blackstone-group-lp","tag-bloomberg","tag-conference-call","tag-equity-company","tag-fortress-investment-group","tag-fortress-investment-group-llc","tag-investments","tag-investors","tag-rsquo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}