UPDATE 3-Hilton Worldwide raises over $2.3 bln in biggest-ever hotel IPO
December 11, 2013 at 19:00 PM EST
Dec 11 (Reuters) - Hotel operator Hilton Worldwide Inc raised $2.34 billion in its IPO on Wednesday, returning to the public markets some six years after Blackstone Group LP took it private in one of the largest deals of the leveraged buyout boom.