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Blackstone to Invest Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Israel
5/24/2012
The Blackstone Group LP will reportedly invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel, through a joint venture that it will set up with Markstone Capital Partners Group LLC. Markstone, headed by managing directors Ron Lubash and Amir Kess, will apparently become Blackstone's exclusive representative in Israel. Markstone will seek Israeli companies in which the two private equity funds will invest.
The deal will be closed in a few weeks. Markstone has declined to respond to the report.
Blackstone, with $166.2 billion in assets under management, is the world's largest private equity fund, larger than Apax Partners, which has invested billions of shekels in Israel, including the acquisition of the controlling interests in Tnuva Food Industries Ltd. and Psagot Investment House Ltd.
New York-based Blackstone was founded by CEO Stephen Schwarzman in 1985. It has a market cap of $7.66 billion, and posted a net profit of $1.4 billion in 2011. READER COMMENTS
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