Advanced Technology Acquisition Corp. Completes Initial Public Offering
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NEW YORK, June 22  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Technology Acquisition Corp.  announced today that it has completed an initial public offering of 21,562,500 units, including 2,812,500 units issued upon exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Monday said  rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.'s PSFT.O board  has accepted a sweetened purchase offer of about $10.3 billion,  ending a long and bitter hostile takeover battle.
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Payment processor First Data Corp  said it completed its $26 billion acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co , closing the book on one part of the closely watched deal.
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Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints group Akzo Nobel's announced Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of peer ICI.
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A private equity firm buys its medical-imaging division.
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A group called JGR Acquisition made the winning, &#36;15.5 million bid Monday for a batch of obscure but potentially important patents covering technologies for Internet business transactions.
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Global distribution giant Ingram Micro Inc has acquired Tech Pacific in a $700 million cash deal that local Ingram boss Steve Rust said would give the combined entity
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Eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  said on Thursday it received a takeover offer from rival Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  of $75 per share, topping its agreed $65-per-share deal to be acquired by a private equity firm.
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U.K. semiconductor design company Arm Holdings PLC has agreed to acquire a Sunnyvale, California, provider of components for chip manufacturing in a deal valued at around $913 million in cash and stock.
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San Diego-based government contractor Science Applications International Corp. has set a price range for its initial public offering of between $13 and $15, which would give the company proceeds of about $1 billion, according to documents filed yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- General Electric Co. said Thursday it agreed to sell a majority stake in its advanced materials unit to private investment group Apollo Management LP in a deal it valued at $3.8 billion.
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Dolan Media Co., a provider of professional  services to the legal, financial and real estate sectors, on  Wednesday registered its initial public offering of 10.5  million shares at an estimated price of $13.50 to $15.50 per  share.
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PEC Solutions Inc. said yesterday it had acquired AC Technologies Inc. for $46.7 million in cash plus $3 million in employee bonuses and payouts. Both companies are government contractors based in Fairfax.
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Platinum Equity will acquire Covad Communications for about $304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private equity firm.Platinum will pay $1.02 in cash per share for Covad, a 59 percent premium over Covad&#39;s closing price Friday on the American Stock Exchange, the companies announced Sunday. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the second quarter of 2008.San Jose, Calif.-based Covad provides voice and data services such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) to businesses, specifically small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).In June,&#160;Covad cut 8 percent of its staff&#160;as part of a restructuring that also saw the company take a $1.5 million charge for Q2 2007.It is due to report third quarter results Tuesday. The company reported a loss of $11.6 million for the second quarter of this year.Private equity firms have been particularly active in acquiring technology companies this year. TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs&#160;bought Alltel&#160;in May for $27.5 billion, with TPG and Silver Lake Partners&#160;snapping up Avaya&#160;for $8.2 billion just a few weeks later.&#160;
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For the first time since closing a deal to purchase PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion, Oracle has begun offering a glimpse of how it plans to digest its acquisition and handle what will represent four different product lines.
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HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 13  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Technologies Corp.  Board of Directors today authorized a share repurchase program for up to 60 million shares worth approximately $4 billion at current prices.
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Google Inc.&#39;s initial public offering of stock remained on hold yesterday after the Securities and Exchange Commission delayed final approval of the company&#39;s prospectus.