Quad-C Management has acquired Joerns Healthcare, a provider of furniture and equipment for healthcare facilities, from Vestar Capital Partners and Park Avenue Equity Partners. No financial terms were disclosed.
Regency Energy Partners has agreed to acquire Zephyr Gas Services, a Houston-based field services company, for $185 million.
AXA Private Equity has acquired a 51.8% stake in RollOn Group, an Italty-based maker of guides and actuators used in machine design applications for railways and other industries. No financial terms were disclosed.
(Reuters) – Freight transportation company Panther Expedited Services Inc filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock. The company told the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission in a preliminary prospectus that J.P. Morgan and Goldman, Sachs & Co were joint book-running managers for […]
Skype, a Luxembourg-based online communication platform, has filed for a $100 million IPO. It plans to trade on the Nasdaq, with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan serving as co-lead underwriters. The company reports a net loss of $269 million on $626 million in revenue, for the year ending November 18, 2009. This compared […]
Aug 9 (Reuters) – U.S. firms First Reserve and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR.N) are considering a $2.75 billion buyout of Australia’s Whitehaven Coal (WHC.AX), a newspaper said, as the coal firm confirmed it has had a data room open to suitors for some time. Whitehaven shares jumped as much as 5.2 percent to a record […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish builder ACS (ACS.MC) is set to sign a 3 billion euro ($4 billion) deal to sell part of its stake in infrastructure group Abertis (ABE.MC) to CVC Capital Partners [CVC.UL], Expansion newspaper reported. A new joint venture, in which Luxembourg-based fund CVC would hold a 60 percent stake and ACS […]
(Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWSA.O) said on Monday it will sell a controlling stake in its three China TV channels to a private equity fund backed by Shanghai Media Group (SMG), China’s No.2 media company. The deal would see China Media Capital acquire a controlling stake in News Corp’s Xing Kong, Xing Kong […]
(Reuters)- Online content provider Demand Media Inc filed with U.S. securities regulators on Friday to raise up to $125 million in an initial public offering of its common stock. The company relies on more than 10,000 freelance contributors to churn out content on topics ranging from becoming a better photographer to making small talk. It […]
(Reuters) – The shares of Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV NXPI.O, closed flat with their IPO price in their debut on Friday, as investors expressed reservations about the company’s debt and the cyclical semiconductor industry. The shares, which opened 7.1 percent below their IPO price, narrowed the loss over the course of the day to […]