Slideshow: Quattrone Is Back with a Vengeance; His Qatalyst Partners Has Advised PopCap, GoDaddy and 11 Others this Year
It feels like Qatalyst Partners is everywhere these days. This week, Frank Quattrone's investment bank advised on two big-name deals. The most notable was Electronic Arts' proposed buy of PopCap (Quatalyst advised PopCap) and the second was Citrix's acquisition of Cloud.com (Qatalyst provided guidance Citrix). So far, July has been very good to Qatalyst. Earlier this month, GoDaddy finally announced plans to sell itself to some PE firms for $2.25 billion. Qatalyst advised GoDaddy on that deal. Qatalyst's largest deal this year was Texas Instruments $6.5 billion purchase of National Semiconductor. The San Francisco investment bank really set tongues a waggin' when it advised 3Par last year. The data storage company was the subject of a highly publicized bidding war between Dell and HP. Dell initially bid $18 a share for 3Par, but HP ultimately "won" the deal when it paid $32 a share, or $2.4 billion.
