Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Colony Capital to Buy Libya's Tamoil for $5.4 Billion, Defeating Carlyle

(Bloomberg) -- Colony Capital LLC, the property
buyout firm led by billionaire Thomas Barrack, agreed to acquire
control of Libya's Tamoil SA for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion),
beating out other suitors including Carlyle Group.

The Libyan government will retain a 35 percent stake in the
refiner and gas-station operator, Los Angeles-based Colony said
in a statement today. Owen Blicksilver, a spokesman for Colony,
declined to comment beyond the statement.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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