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Blackstone

Candle Media doesn’t want to sell, but if there’s a credible offer for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, they’d talk.
Matthew Belloni • February 25, 2024

Reese’s New Bankers to the Rescue 

Production company rollup Candle Media has hired the investment bank Moelis & Co. to figure out how to prop up Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.
William D. Cohan • August 30, 2023
May the Schwarzman Be With You
An intimate chat with Steve Schwarzman.
William D. Cohan • May 17, 2023
Fade to Blackstone
Steve Schwarzman
Insights into a REIT headache, and some of the craftiest investors who are seeing around the corner.
William D. Cohan • April 23, 2023
P.E. Vulcan Chess & Postcards from Pity City
News and notes on the murmurings from the Maidstone Club: springtime for I.P.O.s, the next phase of private equity dealmaking, and the cries from pity city.
Paramount Global chairperson Shari Redstone can pretty much do whatever she wants at the now-combined entity, including replacing its C.E.O., its board and single-handedly deciding whether the company should be sold.
William D. Cohan • February 19, 2023
Shari’s Choice, An S.B.F. Twist & Apollo’s Kingdom
News and notes from the inside conversation on Wall Street: the future of Paramount Global, the latest on the FTX bankruptcy, and a close reading of a monster private equity deal.
Kevin Hart
Matthew Belloni • October 31, 2021
Kevin Hart Is Selling. Is Kevin Mayer Buying?
Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Blackstone Group-backed company is one of the suitors as Kevin Hart jumps on the private equity party bus.
Tom Staggs at Sun Valley
Matthew Belloni • August 5, 2021
Reese’s $900 Million Deal Secret
Kevin Mayer, Reese Witherspoon, and why the Hello Sunshine deal might actually make sense.