Aptalis Pharma Inc, a specialty drugmaker owned by private equity firm TPG Capital LP, has appointed underwriters for an initial public offering after efforts to sell the company failed, people familiar with the matter told sister news service Reuters.
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It’s perhaps the dream of most PE professionals to give 100% of their time to doing deals and managing businesses – free of the strictures of the traditional partnership model, and of having to raise a new fund every few years. That dream appears to have been realized by the investment pros managing Banyan Capital Partners. In 2010, the 15-year old private equity firm left behind traditional fund-raising, and entered into a partnership with a single LP, $47 billion Canadian asset manager Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L).
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Turning around a century-old iconic brand that had been the gold standard for a product with origins in the third millennium B.C. might seem counterintuitive at first blush. But Sun Capital’s five-year effort to transform kitchen and bath leader American Standard Brands and position it for the next 100 years is a testament to what can be achieved when smart restructuring allows innovation to take the lead.
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At least seven potential buyers are in the running to bid for a minority holding in Italian fashion house Versace, which plans to sell a 15-20 percent stake to fund growth, sources close to the talks told sister news service Reuters.
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