{"id":8780,"date":"2008-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"blackstone-closes-china-investment-in-bluestar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/blackstone-closes-china-investment-in-bluestar.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Closes China Investment in Bluestar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; State-owned company China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) and hedge fund manager the Blackstone Group announced the closing of Blackstone&rsquo;s investment in ChemChina subsidiary, China National Bluestar Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Bluestar has also completed its group restructuring and has registered as a Sino-foreign joint stock limited company. Blackstone will invest up to $600 million in Bluestar for a 20% stake. Two Senior Managing Directors of Blackstone, Antony Leung and Ben Jenkins, will join the board of Bluestar.<\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Beijing, ChemChina was founded in 2004, and administrated by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China. Through fast growth in the last 4 years, ChemChina is now a large group corporation with both asset value and revenue exceeding RMB100 billion ($14.6 billion). ChemChina is ranked 35th among China&#8217;s top 500 corporations, according to National Bureau of Statistics of China.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackstone Group&#8217;s alternative asset management businesses include the management of corporate private equity funds, real estate opportunity funds, funds of hedge funds, mezzanine funds, senior debt funds, proprietary hedge funds and closed-end mutual funds.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson <\/p>\n<p>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/news\/09\/news\/09\/news\/09\/news\/09\/news\/09\/news\/08\/news\/08\/news\/08\/news\/08\/news\/08\/news\/04\/news\/04\/news\/01\/\" target=\"_self\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds! <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/provider\/providerarticle.aspx?feed=BW&#038;date=20081006&#038;id=9230394\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; State-owned company China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) and hedge fund manager the Blackstone Group announced the closing of Blackstone&rsquo;s investment in ChemChina subsidiary, China National Bluestar Corporation. Bluestar has also completed its group restructuring and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3029,100,67,3028,2856,1149,3027,286,372],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-antony-leung","tag-boston","tag-chief-executive","tag-energy-investments","tag-film-financing","tag-global-investor-network","tag-india-fund","tag-steve-moyer","tag-weather-derivatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","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=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}