Tag: Blackstone

Crown Resorts   (Image: William West/Getty)

Casino Roundup: Crown Buyout, Wynn Leaseback and Sands Junk Rating

Crown Resorts accepted a $6.4 billion buyout bid from Blackstone, a private equity firm. Just days after the news, the Australian casino company reported a $141 billion loss for the last six months of 2021. In other casino news, a credit agency cut Las Vegas Sands’ debt rating, while Wynn […]

The Cosmopolitan casino will be changing hands again (Image: The Cosmopolitan)

Merger Roundup: MGM Buys Cosmopolitan, Endeavor Grabs OpenBet

It was another busy week in gambling mergers. MGM Resorts will pay $1.63 billion to operate The Cosmopolitan. Meanwhile, Endeavor will buy sports betting platform OpenBet from Scientific Games for $1.2 billion. While most of the mergers in the gambling industry involve sports betting, there are still a handful of […]