{"id":12470,"date":"2009-10-12T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12470"},"modified":"2009-10-12T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:23:35","slug":"blackstone-plans-portfolio-ipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/blackstone-plans-portfolio-ipos.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone plans portfolio IPOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Private equity firm Blackstone Group is planning to list up to eight of its portfolio companies, according to a source who received a letter the firm sent to investors on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The letter details that Blackstone is positioning one company &#8212; hospital staffing firm Team Health &#8212; for an IPO and evaluating the potential for seven others, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>It also says that Blackstone is in the process of five realizations this year &#8212; meaning sales of companies it owns. Of these, four have already been announced and one is imminent, the source said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/afx\/2009\/10\/12\/afx6989728.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Private equity firm Blackstone Group is planning to list up to eight of its portfolio companies, according to a source who received a letter the firm sent to investors on Friday. The letter details that Blackstone is positioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4483,4504,5524,4518],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-blackstone-group","tag-investors","tag-portfolio-companies","tag-private-equity-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}