{"id":76666,"date":"2020-12-22T00:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76666"},"modified":"2020-12-22T00:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:50:59","slug":"blackstone-in-talks-to-merge-alight-with-blank-check-acquisition-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2020\/blackstone-in-talks-to-merge-alight-with-blank-check-acquisition-firm.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone in talks to merge Alight with blank-check acquisition firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc is in talks to merge U.S. benefits services provider Alight Solutions LLC with a blank-check acquisition firm backed by veteran investor Bill Foley, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-alight-m-a-foley-trasimene\/exclusive-blackstone-in-talks-to-merge-alight-with-blank-check-acquisition-firm-idUKKBN28T0KG\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc is in talks to merge U.S. benefits services provider Alight Solutions LLC with a blank-check acquisition firm backed by veteran investor Bill Foley, according to people familiar with the matter. To read this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76666","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76667,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76666\/revisions\/76667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}