The acquisition comes less than a month after Blackstone acquired part of Merlin Entertainments. : Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May are advising on the sale of Irish building materials company CRH’s Europe Distribution business to private equity giant Blackstone in a €1.6 billion deal. One of Europe's largest lottery companies is set to take over Greece's biggest gambling company. "Some firms send satisfaction questionnaires to clients, undertake annual business reviews and the like.