Blackstone Wins 20 Awards from Private Equity International Publications
Among others, Blackstone received the PERE Global Award for Deal of the Year for the $18.7 billion transaction with GLP and PERE Europe Award for Deal of the Year for Dream Global REIT.
Our private equity business also won PEI’s awards for Fundraise of the Year for Blackstone Capital Partners (BCP) VIII – the largest third-party private equity fundraise in history – Exit of the Year for Refinitiv’s proposed merger with the London Stock Exchange, and Large-cap Firm of the Year for North America.
Private Equity International
Private Equity Real Estate
Infrastructure Investor
Below is a full list of the awards the firm received in 2019:
- Private Equity Real Estate
- Deal of the Year (Global) for GLP
- Logistics Investor of the Year: Global
- Hotels and Leisure Investor of the Year: Global
- Firm of the Year: North America
- Deal of the Year: North America for GLP
- Logistics Investor the Year: North America
- Hotels and Leisure Investor of The Year: North America
- Deal of the Year: Europe for DREAM Global REIT
- Logistics Investor of the Year: Europe
- Private Equity International
- Large-cap Firm of the Year in North America
- Exit of the Year for Refinitiv
- Fundraise of the Year (Americas) for Blackstone Capital Partners VIII
- Real Estate Capital
- Investment Financing Deal of the Year: Europe
- Borrower Finance Team of the Year (Fund Manager): Europe
- Financing Deal of the Year: Germany
- Alternative Lender of the Year: Southern Europe
- Financing Deal of the Year: Southern Europe
- Private Equity International – Secondaries Investor
- LP Sale of the Year in Europe – Adrian, Strategic Partners, Evercore
- Private Debt Investor
- Fundraising of the Year: GSO Capital Partners
- Infrastructure Investor
- Equity Fundraising of the Year – North America
Private Equity Real Estate (PERE), Private Equity International (PEI), and Real Estate Capital (REC) selected award winners by researching news sources (including privateequityinternational.com, perenews.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.
