| Steve Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group said it would sell its US industrial platform IndCor Properties to affiliates of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC for $8.1 billion. As a result of the deal, IndCor will no longer pursue an initial public offering filed in September, Blackstone said in a statement.
Reuters reported in November that GIC was leading a consortium to buy IndCor from Blackstone in a deal valued at about $8 billion including debt. Chicago-based IndCor was formed in 2010 as a portfolio company of Blackstone. It owns about 117 million square feet of buildings in 29 markets, according to Bloomberg News, which said the deal enables Blackstone to exit a major investment at a profit as it invests a new series of property funds...............................................Full Article: Source
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