Article: $100M infusion for Waste Pro.(News)

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Waste & Recycling News
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October 12, 2009
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Byline: Jim Johnson

Jeffrey J. Keenan can't keep out of the trash.

As president of Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm, he is investing $100 million in Waste Pro USA Inc.

Keenan is a co-founder and former chairman of IESI Corp. He left that solid waste management company after it merged with BFI Canada in 2005.

Roark is bullish on the solid waste sector in general and Waste Pro in particular, Keenan said. During a recent interview he couldn't find enough good things to say about the Longwood, Fla.-based company that has operations in the Southeast.

"We think that Waste Pro is just a fantastic company. ...

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