TRLPC: Blackstone's Gates buyout one of 2014's largest for US M&A

NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Blackstone is set to launch a $4.2 billion financing to back its $5.4 billion acquisition of auto parts maker Gates Global. The deal is the second-largest U.S. leveraged buyout financing of the year, according to Thomson Reuters data, and is also the largest private equity buyout of an industrial company in more than four years.