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Blackstone Inc. manages alternative investment strategies across private equity, real estate and real assets, credit and insurance, and other alternatives for institutional, insurance and individual investors. News about BX commonly covers operating and financial results, realization activity, dividend announcements, fund and platform launches, and investments made through Blackstone-affiliated strategies.
Recurring developments include Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies lending activity, Blackstone Life Sciences financings, energy-transition and power-generation investments, data-center and digital-infrastructure initiatives, and partnerships tied to enterprise technology and AI deployment. Coverage also reflects capital formation, portfolio-company activity and updates from public vehicles connected to Blackstone platforms.
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced on January 7, 2026 that funds managed by its private equity strategy have acquired Madison Dearborn Partners’ remaining equity stake in Air Control Concepts (AIR), making Blackstone the sole institutional investor in AIR. Founder, President and CEO Brad Hobbs and his family will reinvest alongside Blackstone.
Headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, AIR operates across 35 states and Canada through a network of more than 38 operating companies and over 1,900 associates, offering commercial HVAC, electrical, and controls services. The transaction follows Blackstone’s original investment in July 2024. Terms were not disclosed. Centerview Partners and RBC Capital Markets advised Blackstone; Kirkland & Ellis advised AIR and MDP; Simpson Thacher advised Blackstone.
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced that funds affiliated with Blackstone Energy Transition Partners and other Blackstone funds have acquired Alliance Technical Group (ATG), a provider of environmental testing, monitoring, and compliance services. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Alabama, ATG has more than 2,200 employees across 60+ offices and labs in the U.S. and Canada and offers services including source and lab testing, continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS), and leak detection and repair.
Blackstone said the acquisition aligns with its energy transition strategy; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Harris Williams and RBC advised Blackstone; Piper Sandler advised ATG.
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and Phoenix Financial (TASE: PHOE) announced a strategic partnership on December 17, 2025 to collaborate across corporate, real estate and asset-based credit strategies.
Phoenix will invest up to $5 billion across these strategies, leveraging Blackstone’s global credit origination and co-investment opportunities. Blackstone cites $508 billion in credit assets and $1.2 trillion total AUM; Phoenix reports $180 billion AUM.
Blackstone Credit & Insurance (NYSE:BX) announced a forward flow origination partnership with Harvest Commercial Capital to acquire business loans secured by first‑lien mortgages on owner‑occupied commercial real estate.
Terms include an initial portfolio purchase and a $1 billion forward flow program covering SBA 504 and non‑SBA conventional small business loans. Harvest will remain independent while BXCI provides permanent capital. BXCI’s Infrastructure and Asset Based Credit group manages over $100 billion and 80+ investment professionals as of September 30, 2025.
MacLean Power Systems (NYSE:BX) and Power Grid Components agreed to merge and recapitalize MPS, with funds affiliated with Blackstone becoming the majority owner and acquiring interests held by Centerbridge, creating a combined supplier for U.S. transmission, distribution, substation and communications infrastructure.
The combined company will unify complementary product lines (switches, insulators, transformers, pad-mounted products and more), retain existing management post-close, and aims to serve growing electrification and grid-hardening demand. Transaction terms were not disclosed.
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) said Jon Gray, President and Chief Operating Officer, will present at the Goldman Sachs 2025 US Financial Services Conference on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 12:20pm ET.
A live webcast will be available on the company’s Shareholders section at http://ir.blackstone.com, and a replay will be posted on the website shortly after the presentation.
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced a $1.2 billion investment on November 13, 2025 to build Wolf Summit Energy, a fully contracted, 600‑megawatt greenfield combined‑cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant in Harrison County, West Virginia.
The Final Investment Decision enables construction to start; the project is expected to create 500 construction jobs, supply Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (serving ~1.5 million residents), and use GE Vernova 7HA.02 turbines to support rising electricity demand including from AI/data centers.
Clio closed its US$1.0B acquisition of vLex and simultaneously raised a US$500M Series G at a US$5B valuation on Nov 10, 2025. The financing package also includes a US$350M debt facility led by Blackstone and Blue Owl and an equity rollover by vLex majority owner Oakley Capital. Clio says the deal combines vLex's >1 billion documents across 110 jurisdictions with Clio's legal platform to create an "Intelligent Legal Work Platform" and accelerate enterprise expansion and AI product development.
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) completed a public offering of senior notes totaling $1.2 billion: $600 million of 4.300% notes due 2030 and $600 million of 4.950% notes due 2036.
The notes were issued by Blackstone Reg Finance Co. L.L.C. and are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Blackstone and its listed indirect subsidiaries. Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes. The offering was made under an effective shelf registration and a prospectus supplement is available on the SEC website.
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) appointed Laura Coady as Global Head of CLOs and European Head of Liquid Credit Strategies, based in London, effective November 3, 2025. Coady will oversee BXCI’s global CLO formation and investing and lead European liquid credit operations.
BXCI’s Liquid Credit Strategies manages $120 billion across corporate bonds, leveraged loans, CLOs and Multi-Asset Credit. Blackstone is the largest global manager of CLOs and loans and set a record for global annual CLO issuance in 2024.