Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Sidley Austin have bagged key roles on Blackstone's $36bn (£19bn) acquisition of US office building owner Equity Office Properties Trust - the largest leveraged buy-out ever.Simpson Thacher is advising regular client Blackstone. The elite New York firm has advised the private equity giant on the acquisitions of around a dozen acquisitions of public real estate companies in the last two and a half years, worth around $76bn (£40bn). Sidley is representing Chicago-based Equity Office.
November 19, 2006 at 07:03 PM
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