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’Consortium wins BankUnited auction
A group including investors such as Blackstone, Carlyle, Centerbridge and WLRoss won an auction for BankUnited on Thursday after the Florida lender – worth nearly $13bn by assets – was closed by federal regulators in the biggest US bank failure of 2009.
BankUnited fails, long live BankUnited
FDIC has pre-empted the traditional Bank Failure Friday with the announcement that BankUnited had become the largest US bank failure this year.
From the press release:
BankUnited, a newly chartered federal savings bank,
Ross and Carlyle eye BankUnited
Two leading forces in the investment industry, distressed asset investor Wilbur Ross and the Carlyle private equity group, are considering a joint bid for BankUnited Financial, a troubled Florida-based bank with $14bn in assets.