Blackstone Wins 27 Awards from Private Equity International Publications
Blackstone received the PERE Global Award for Firm of the Year, and PERE Global Deal of the Year and North America Deal of the Year for BioMed Realty, a life sciences real estate company, among other awards.
Our businesses also won PEI’s award for Long-Term Private Equity Firm of the Year, PDI’s Specialty Finance Lender of the Year (Americas) for Blackstone Credit, and REC’s Debt Fund Lender of the Year and Fundraising of the Year in Europe, among others.
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Below is a full list of the awards the firm received in 2020:
- Private Equity Real Estate
- Firm of the Year: Global
- Deal of the Year: Global (BioMed Realty)
- Capital Raise of the Year: Global (BREDS IV)
- Hotels & Leisure Investor of the Year: Global
- Firm of the Year: North America
- Industry Figure of the Year: North America (Nadeem Meghji, Head of Real Estate, Americas)
- Deal of the Year: North America (BioMed Realty)
- Capital Raise of the Year: North America (BREDS IV)
- Hotels & Leisure Investor of The Year: North America
- Debt Firm of the Year: North America
- Capital Raise of the Year: Europe (BREP Europe VI)
- Logistics Investor of the Year: Europe
- Alternatives Investor of the Year: Europe
- Firm of the Year: Europe
- Industry Figure of the Year: Europe (James Seppala, Head of Real Estate, Europe)
- Deal of the Year: Europe (iQ)
- Hotels & Leisure Investor of the Year: Asia
- Private Equity International
- Long-Term Private Equity Firm of the Year
- Private Debt Investor
- Real Estate Debt Fund Manager of the Year: Americas (BREDS)
- Specialty Finance Lender of the Year: Americas (BXC)
- Real Estate Capital
- Debt Fund Lender of the Year: Europe
- Alternative Lender of the Year: Southern Europe
- Lender of the Year: Benelux
- Borrower Finance Team of the Year: Europe
- Fundraising of the Year: Europe
- Senior Investment Financing Deal of the Year: Europe (iQ)
- Mezzanine/Whole Loan Investment Financing Deal of the Year: Europe (Apollo – UK logistics mezzanine)
Private Equity Real Estate (PERE), Private Equity International (PEI), Private Debt Investor (PDI, and Real Estate Capital (REC) selected award winners by researching news sources (including privateequityinternational.com, perenews.com, privatedebtinvestor.com and recapitalnews.com) to compile a list of finalists, vetting those finalists and soliciting votes from readers. Blackstone has not investigated and does not know the makeup of voters. A different set of voters may have achieved different results. Blackstone does not know whether it has been rated by this or any other third party in any way that would conflict with these awards. There may be other categories for which Blackstone, its funds or its portfolio companies were nominated but not awarded. The awards may not be representative of a particular investor’s experience or the future performance of any Blackstone fund or transaction. There is no guarantee that similar awards will be obtained by Blackstone with respect to existing or future funds or transactions. This information is provided solely for informational purposes. It should not be relied upon as any indication of future performance of Blackstone or any of its funds or portfolio companies.
