Jonathan Gray, the unassuming co-head of Blackstone’s real estate investment business, gets his due this month in a colorful profile, “Jonathan Gray, Blackstone’s Real Estate Wizard Behind the Curtain,” in the New York Observer.

We devote a chapter to his signature deal, the buyout of Equity Office Properties in 2007, which remains Blackstone’s largest deal ever, and is likely to be one of its biggest successes.

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