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Hicks Does $3.2 Billion Deal, Gets Big Package

Posted on June 30th, 2008 11:17am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Business

Here you’ll find the release. The short version: his special purpose acquisition company (or SPAC), has teamed up with The Blackstone Group to take Graham Packaging Holdings Co. public. They’re saying it’s the largest deal ever between a SPAC and an industrial company.

3 Comments to “Hicks Does $3.2 Billion Deal, Gets Big Package”

CJS @ June 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

you had me at ‘Big Package’
GMOM @ June 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Can’t believe they put Liverpool biggest and in the middle on the stationary!! WTF
mike @ July 1st, 2008 at 12:01 am

@GMOM,

Maybe because Liverpool FC is far more significant in the world of sports than the Stars and Rangers combined.

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Hicks Does $3.2 Billion Deal, Gets Big Package