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Byline: Paul Muolo
New York-Subsidiaries controlled by investment banker BlackRock Financial have increased their stake in PHH Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J. - a top 10 ranked residential servicer - to 9.67%, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Previously, BlackRock affiliates controlled about 5% of PHH's outstanding common.
Two years ago General Electric Capital Corp. almost bought PHH in its entirety for $1.9 billion but the deal fell apart.
(GECC had planned to flip PHH's mortgage business - the company's biggest asset - to the Blackstone Group, which is not affiliated with BlackRock.)
Over the past four years several buyers looked at PHH including Countrywide Financial Corp., which is now part of Bank of America.
The new SEC filing says the investment banking firm owns 5.27 million shares in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, BlackRock Adds to its Equity Stake in Top 10 Servicer.