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- Deal of the week: Oak Hills Duane Reade exit a success, not a home run
As far as drug store deals goes, this one can be viewed as a success
- Oak Hill’s Duane Reade Exit A Success, Not a Home Run
Oak Hill Capital Partners today agreed to sell New York-based drug store chain Duane Reade to Walgreen Co. for nearly $1.1 billion. Oak Hill earned just over 1.5x its money on the deal, according to a source familiar with the situation. Return-wise, it’s not a home run. But considering the company's struggle with debt and drug store industry consolidation (e.g., Rite Aid/Eckerd, CVS/Long's), it can be viewed as a solid double. Analysts called the price fair—it represents an 11.4x adjusted EBITDA multiple, which is only slightly higher than the 10.3x trailing EBITDA that CVS paid for Longs in 2008.
- VC-Backed IPO Pipeline Fills Up
Fallbrook Technologies today filed for a $50 million IPO, although I can't for the life of me figure out why. The company has decreasing revenue, increasing losses and is looking to raise the type of equity infusion that its existing VC backers should be able to provide. If it weren't for Vringo, this would be in contention for the year's "WTF IPO?!?!" prize. All of that is a way of leading into our monthly look at VC-backed companies that are in registration to go public on U.S. exchanges. There are of 37 them, representing more than $4.25 billion in targeted raise. This includes 11 additions since our last list, and two removals (Ironwood Pharma and Quinstreet, which both priced). Get them all after the jump...
All Lined Up to IPOHope springs eternal for a surge in IPOs, with nine more VC-backed companies registering to go public in December
- The VC-Backed IPO Pipeline
There has been lots made /59667/vc-backed-ipos-up-ma-down-in-2009/ of the past year's anemic VC-backed IPO market, but let's leave the past behind and look at what could be coming up over the liquidity horizon. Our records indicate that there are 28 VC-backed companies currently in registration to price IPOs on U.S. exchanges, representing more than $3.75 billion in targeted raise. More than half of the registrations occured last quarter, but there's one from 2008 and even a pair from 2007. Also worth noting that for all the talk of 2010 being the year of the social network-related IPO (Facebook? LinkedIn? Zynga?), no such company is currently in registration. Closest we get are a pair of online marketing/advertising companies. Get the full lot of them after the jump...
- PE fund briefs, week of Sept. 21, 2009
Fund-raising news briefs about Alpine Investors and other private equity funds