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Article: IMS Health LBO is Biggest Since 2007.(News)
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- Mergers & Acquisitions Report
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Jonathan Marino
IMS Health, the listed, Connecticut-based healthcare data services company, will be taken private in the biggest LBO transaction since 2007.
The price fetched by the target is almost 50% what was projected for IMS when it declared in late October that was considering a sale.
IMS will be bought by funds managed by TPG Capital and CPP Investment Board for $5.2 billion including assumed debt.
An unspecified amount of equity will be contributed by the PE firm and the Canadian pension fund and Goldman Sachs and affiliates are providing debt financing through principal loans and mezzanine funds.
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