A
development stage company whose business is comprised of
two segments focused on serving the consumer credit
industry. First, license its proprietary software
solution, the DebtResolve® system, which services the
collection of defaulted consumer credit over the
Internet. Second, formed its wholly-owned subsidiary,
DRV Capital LLC, to pursue the proprietary purchase and
collection of distressed consumer receivable portfolios.
Operates the only global
commercial wireless messaging system optimized for
narrowband communications. Its system consists of a
global network of 30 low-Earth orbit, or LEO, satellites
and accompanying ground infrastructure.
Stakeholders:
PCG Satellite Investments LLC (CalPERS/PCG Corporate
Partners, LLC); Ridgewood Venture
Management Corporation; OHB
Technology A.G.; MH Equity Managing Member LLC;
SES Global Participations S.A.;
Northwood Ventures LLC
Legal: Chadbourne &
Parke LLP, New York, New York | (for the
underwriters: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, New
York)
Experts: Deloitte & Touche LLP
Underwriters: UBS Securities LLC; Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated; Banc of America Securities LLC;
Cowen and Company, LLC
2844 - Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet
Preparations
Azusa, CA
A cosmetics company specialized in
developing and marketing innovative, premium-priced
products for the mass market channel. Its products focus
on addressing skin imperfections through a
problem-solution approach, rather than focusing on
changing fashion trends. Its products address specific,
everyday cosmetics needs and include face powders,
bronzers, concealers, blushes, foundations, eye shadows,
eye liners, brow makeup and mascaras.
Stakeholders:
Summit Partners; COFILANCE SA (a
subsidiary of Pierre Fabre S.A.)
Legal: Kirkland &
Ellis LLP, Chicago, Illinois | (for the
underwriters: Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New
York, New York)
Experts: Deloitte & Touche LLP
Underwriters: Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc.; Citigroup Global Markets Inc.;
Banc of America Securities LLC; Cowen and
Company, LLC; Piper Jaffray & Co.
A property and casualty insurance
writer that provides a range of specialty insurance
products as well as a variety of segmented commercial
and personal insurance products.
Stakeholders:
[White Mountains]
Legal: Conyers
Dill & Pearman, Hamilton, Bermuda; Cravath,
Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York| (for the
underwriters: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
Flom LLP, New York, New York; Appleby Hunter Bailhache, Bermuda)
Experts: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Underwriters: Lehman Brothers Inc.;
Banc of America Securities LLC;
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated;
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.;
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.;
Cochran Caronia Waller Securities LLC;
Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC;
Fox-Pitt, Kelton Incorporated;
Janney Montgomery Scott LLC;
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.;
Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P.;
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.;
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC;
BNY Capital Markets, Inc.;
Lazard Capital Markets LLC;
PNC Capital Markets, Inc.
An exclusively online post-secondary education
services company. Through our wholly owned subsidiary,
Capella University, we offer a variety of doctoral,
master’s and bachelor’s programs in the following
disciplines: business, organization and management;
education; psychology; human services; and information
technology.
Stakeholders:
Forstmann Little & Co.;
Cherry Tree Investments; Technology
Crossover Ventures; TH Lee, Putnam Investment Trust; Maveron;
Insight Holdings; Salmon River
Capital Group
Legal: Faegre & Benson
LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota | (for the
underwriters: Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York)
Experts: Ernst & Young LLP
Underwriters: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC;Banc
of America Securities LLC; Piper Jaffray & Co.; Stifel, Nicolaus &
Company Incorporated
A biotechnology company that develops
and plans to commercialize environmentally sustainable,
economically attractive alternatives to
petrochemical-based plastics, fuels and chemicals.
Stakeholders:
The Vertical Group;
State Farm Mutual;
Archer Daniels Midland; Westfield Capital
Legal: Goodwin
Procter LLP, Boston, Massachusetts | (for the
underwriters: Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, New
York)
Experts: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Underwriters: Piper Jaffray & Co.;
Jefferies & Company, Inc.; Thomas Weisel Partners LLC; Ardour
Capital Investments, LLC; Ardour Capital Investments, LLC
A holding company engaged in the
business of providing financial guaranty insurance
products to participants in the global credit
derivatives markets, structured finance capital markets
and municipal finance capital markets.
Stakeholders:
Bear Stearns Merchant Banking; SF Holding
Corp. (f/k/a Stephens Group, Inc.); Third
Avenue Management, LLC; GCC Investments, LLC; Chestnut Hill
Ventures, LLC; Banc of America;
AEGON;
Legal: Fried, Frank, Harris,
Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, New York | (for the
underwriters: Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York,
New York)
A biopharmaceutical
company focused on the development, manufacture and
commercialization of immunobiotics. Immunobiotics are
pharmaceutical products, such as vaccines and immune
globulins, that induce or assist the body’s immune
system to prevent or treat disease. It operates in two
business segments: biodefense and commercial.
Legal: Ori Rosen & Co., Tel Aviv, Israel;
White & Case LLP, New York, New York
| (for the
underwriters: Herzog, Fox & Neeman, Tel Aviv, Israel;
Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, New York)
Experts: Kost, Forer, Gabbay and Kasierer, a
member of Ernst & Young Global
Underwriters: Lehman Brothers Inc.;
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.;
CIBC World Markets Corp.; RBC Capital Markets Corporation
A limited liability
company focused on the acquisition, development and
exploitation of oil and natural gas properties as well
as related midstream assets. Our 112.0 Bcf of estimated
proved reserves are 100% natural gas and are located in
the Robinson’s Bend Field in Alabama’s Black Warrior
Basin.
Stakeholders:
Constellation
Energy Group (NYSE: CCG)
Legal: Andrews
Kurth LLP, Houston, Texas | (for the
underwriters: Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., New York,
New York)
Experts: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Underwriters: Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.; Lehman Brothers Inc.; Lehman Brothers Inc.;
UBS Securities LLC; Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC; Scotia
Capital (USA) Inc.
Develops and
manufactures a new generation of medical robotics
designed for accurate positioning, manipulation and
stable control of catheters and catheter-based
technologies.
Stakeholders:
Prospect Venture Partners; Skyline Ventures; Vanguard Ventures;
Thomas Weisel Healthcare Venture Partners; De Novo Ventures;
GC&H Investments, LLC ( an entity comprised of partners and
associates of Cooley Godward Kronish LLP)
Legal: Cooley Godward
Kronish LLP, Palo Alto, California | (for the
underwriters: Latham & Watkins LLP, Costa Mesa, California)
Experts: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Underwriters: Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated;
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.; Thomas Weisel Partners LLC; Leerink
Swann & Co., Inc.
Stakeholders:
Clayton, Dubilier &
Rice, Inc. (Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund VII, L.P.); The
Carlyle Group (Carlyle Partners IV, L.P.); Merrill Lynch Global
Private Equity
(ML Global Private Equity
Fund, L.P.)
Legal: Debevoise &
Plimpton LLP, New York, New York | (for the
underwriters: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP)
Experts: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Underwriters: Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Lehman Brothers
Inc.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated; J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc.; Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated;
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC; UBS Securities LLC; Wachovia
Capital Markets, LLC; Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated; BNP
Paribas Securities Corp.; Calyon Securities (USA) Inc; Daiwa
Securities America Inc.; Fortis Securities LLC; HSBC Securities
(USA) Inc.; Hvb Capital Markets, Inc.; C.L. King & Associates,
Inc.; Lazard Capital Markets LLC; Mizuho International plc; RBC
Capital Markets Corporation; Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.; The
Williams Capital Group, L.P.; Cabrera Capital Markets, Inc.;
Natexis Bleichroeder Inc.; Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP;
Utendahl Capital Group, LLC
1600 - Heavy
Construction Other Than Bldg Const - Contractors
Houston, TX
A leading global
engineering, construction and services company
supporting the energy, petrochemicals, government
services and civil infrastructure sectors. The company
is a leader in many of the growing end-markets it
serves, particularly gas monetization, having designed
and constructed, alone or with joint venture partners,
more than half of the world's operating liquefied
natural gas (LNG) production capacity over the past 30
years. KBR offers its wide range of services through two
business segments, Energy and Chemicals (E&C) and
Government and Infrastructure (G&I)
Stakeholders:
Halliburton
(NYSE: HAL)
Legal: Baker
Botts L.L.P., Houston, Texas | (for the
underwriters: Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York,
New York)
Experts: KPMG LLP
Underwriters: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC ;
Goldman, Sachs & Co.; UBS Securities LLC; Citigroup Global
Markets Inc.; HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.; Lehman Brothers
Inc.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated; Scotia
Capital (USA) Inc.; Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC; D.A. Davidson
& Co.; Pickering Energy Partners, Inc.; Simmons & Company
International
Designs and manufactures solar
modules using a proprietary thin film semiconductor
technology.
Stakeholders:
Estate of John T. Walton;
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Legal: Cravath, Swaine &
Moore LLP, New York, New York | (for the
underwriters: Shearman & Sterling LLP, Menlo Park, California)
Experts: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Underwriters: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC; Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated; Piper Jaffray & Co.; Cowen
and Company LLC; First Albany Capital Inc.; ThinkEquity Partners
LLC
The world's largest physical commodity futures
exchange and the preeminent trading forum for energy and
precious metals. Trading is conducted through two
divisions, the NYMEX Division, home to the energy,
platinum, and palladium markets; and the COMEX Division,
on which all other metals trade.
Stakeholders:
General Atlantic LLC;
Legal: Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | (for the
underwriters: Davis Polk & Wardwell)
| [for the selling shareholders:
Sidley Austin LLP]
Experts:
Underwriters: J.P. Morgan
Securities Inc.; Merrill Lynch & Co.;
Banc of America Securities LLC;
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; Lehman Brothers Inc.; Sandler
O’Neill & Partners, L.P.
An integrated global
aviation company with a leading market position in
aircraft and engine leasing, trading and parts sales.
Stakeholders:
Cerberus
Legal: Milbank,
Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, New York;
NautaDutilh N.V., The Netherlands | (for the
underwriters: Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York,
New York)
Underwriters: Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated; Goldman Sachs & Co. and Lehman
Brothers Inc.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated; UBS Securities LLC; Wachovia Capital Markets LLC;
JP Morgan Securities Inc.; Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; Calyon
Securities (USA) Inc.
Its investment
objective is total return, consisting of high current
income and potential capital appreciation - by investing
in the common stock of closed-end management investment
companies
Stakeholders:
Legal: | (for the
underwriters:)
Experts:
Underwriters: Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated ...
The largest independent non-OEM designer and
manufacturer of aerostructures in the world.
Aerostructures are structural components such as
fuselages, propulsion systems and wing systems for
commercial and military aircraft.
Stakeholders:
Onex
Legal: Kaye Scholer LLP,
New York, New York| (for the
underwriters: Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York)
Provider of outsourced services to
small and mid-sized public agencies in California and
other western states. Outsourcing enables these agencies
to provide a wide range of specialized services, without
having to incur and maintain the overhead necessary to
develop staffing in-house. Provides a broad range of
services to public agencies, including:
•
civil engineering;
•
building and safety services;
•
geotechnical engineering;
•
financial and economic
consulting; and
•
disaster preparedness and
homeland security.
Stakeholders:
Legal: Snell &
Wilmer L.L.P., Costa Mesa, California | (for the
underwriters: O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles,
California)
