center parcs: £267m blackstone dealAshurst has cemented its relationship with Blackstone after advising on the US buy-out group’s £267m acquisition of UK holiday park operator Center Parcs.

Ashurst’s head of private equity, Charlie Geffen, advised the US buy-out house, assisted by corporate partner Robert Ogilvy Watson, assistant Gavin Gordon and finance partners Nigel Ward and James Hogben. Blackstone’s regular US adviser, New York’s Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, also worked on the Center Parcs transaction.