Blackstone

“So when I completed the thirty nine billion dollar sale of Equity Office, that's his company, in early 2007, I didn't yet know how the story would play out.”

“The fact that they decided to finance their thirty two billion dollar offer with six Team banks at two billion dollars each instead of three banks at ten billion dollars each might have suggested. Perhaps They were thinking that if they could get 16 banks for …”

“In February, 2007, he sold his equity office properties trust, the largest owner of office buildings in the world for a hefty thirty nine billion dollars to Blackstone. That was the largest leveraged buyout in corporate history at the time.”