Street sleuth: digging for gold in telecom assets; bid to carve a network out of Ireland's Eircom offers new idea for industry

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Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown Capital Ltd., which acquired Irish telephone company Eircom PLC in August 2006, is attempting to restructure the company in a new way. Eircom's cable and phone line networks would be separated from the operations that sell services, potentially leading to an increase of billions of dollars of revenue across Europe.

Investment Banking and Securities Dealing, Strategy & planning, Investment Banking, Organizational history, Security brokers and dealers, Planning, Australia, Investment banks, Ireland, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company business planning, Company organization, Eircom PLC, Babcock & Brown Proprietary Ltd.

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Blackstone agrees to sell Deutsche Telekom rival

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Blackstone Group L.P. is to divest its subsidiary Kabel Baden-Wurttemberg GmbH of Germany to EQT Partners AB of Sweden for 1.3 billion Euros ($1.6 billion). Kabel Baden-Wurttemberg GmbH is an Internet, telecommunications service and cable-television provider.

United States, Sweden, Company overview, Blackstone Group L.P., EQT Partners AB

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