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...will give Digicel a run for its money--a lot of money at that. Currently, O'Brien owns more than 80% of Digicel, its 2,000 employees hold an 8% stake, and the private-equity firm Blackstone Group has about 3%. But O'Brien hasn't ruled out an ipo to fund his American adventure, one that's expected to be worth an additional $2.5 billion. "I've launched a Tet offensive on every possible objection," O'Brien says, "because there's nobody who doesn't deserve a new phone...
Frank Quattrone was always good at making deals. As a sizzling Silicon Valley investment banker during the tech boom of the 1990s, he orchestrated the initial public offerings (IPOs) of start-ups from Netscape to Amazon.com collecting as much as $120 million a year for himself in the process. Yet the deal he reached last week may well be the one he cherishes most. After 31/2 years of court dates, two criminal trials and the prospect of jail time, Quattrone struck a deal in which federal prosecutors agreed to all but drop charges that he obstructed justice during...
True, but that doesn't preclude job cuts, nor does it mean that "financial engineering" is gone. When Hertz filed for an IPO in mid-July, it was up-front about why it needed the cash: to service debt that helped pay a $1 billion dividend to the outfits that had bought it less than a year before--Carlyle Group, Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity...
...exceeded the firm's revenue. Yukos' main oil-production unit was auctioned off to a single low bidder that turned out to be a front company for Rosneft. Those confiscated Yukos assets now constitute about 70% of Rosneft's oil production and reserves. The company's initial public offering (ipo) prospectus lists more than $47 billion in outstanding legal claims relating to the Yukos affair, and Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, decries Rosneft as "the handmaiden of expropriation." Security Even some investors who are bullish on Russia are concerned. "The Russian legal system is not a credible one, and that...
...Number of cases in which Bank of China employees were accused of financial crimes last year, according to the company's pre-IPO legal filings...