The trade could cause conflict not just with bank dealers and rival investors who worry that engineering the exercise of default swaps could undermine the functioning of the derivatives markets that are used to hedge and measure credit exposure, but also within the Blackstone group.
A separate unit of Blackstone owns a stake in a hedge fund called Solus Alternative Asset Management that launched a legal battle to prevent the GSO Capital trade for Hovnanian from closing.
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