{"id":48356,"date":"2015-05-20T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48356"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:19:32","slug":"blackstone-said-to-sell-25-of-eircom-to-hedge-fund-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/blackstone-said-to-sell-25-of-eircom-to-hedge-fund-anchorage.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Said to Sell 25% of Eircom to Hedge Fund Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Anchorage Capital Group LLC, a New York-based hedge fund, bought most of Blackstone Group LP\u2019s stake in Eircom Group amid the Irish phone company\u2019s rejection of a multibillion-dollar buyout offer.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone sold a stake of about 25 percent in Dublin-based Eircom to Anchorage while retaining about 5 percent, said a person familiar with the situation, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Anchorage, which previously held about 8 percent, is now the biggest shareholder in the company, Paul Bradley, Eircom\u2019s head of corporate affairs, said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-05-20\/blackstone-said-to-sell-25-of-eircom-to-hedge-fund-anchorage\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Anchorage Capital Group LLC, a New York-based hedge fund, bought most of Blackstone Group LP\u2019s stake in Eircom Group amid the Irish phone company\u2019s rejection of a multibillion-dollar buyout offer. Blackstone sold a stake of about 25 percent [&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":[],"class_list":["post-48356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48356","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=48356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48358,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48356\/revisions\/48358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}