Category Archives: Venture Capital

Why Write a Business Plan?

Why Write a Business Plan?
Writing a business plan is important for any start-up or expanding company in two respects. First, business plans serve to define and legitimize the business and its prospects in the eyes of others. Secondly, a business plan serves an important purpose within the business, acting as a guide and [...]

Host Hotels & Resorts Proposes Add-On Private Placement of Senior Notes

Host Hotels & Resorts Proposes Add-On Private Placement of Senior Notes
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Announces Proposed Add-On Private Placement of Senior Notes Due 2019 by Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P.
Bethesda, Maryland Private Placement — Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: HST) announced that Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P., for whom the Company acts as [...]

China Initiates Private Placements of Bonds

China Initiates Private Placements of Bonds
China has given the green-light for the private placement of bonds, another step towards expanding the role of direct financing in the economy, China’s interbank association has announced.
The new rules are aimed at boosting the development of China’s bond market to cut reliance on the banking system for financing, the [...]

$350M144A Private Placement for Highmark Inc.

$350M144A Private Placement for Highmark Inc.
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Health insurer Highmark Inc. sold Tuesday a $600 million two-part debt offering in the private placement Rule 144a market.
The issue includes $350 million 10- and $250 million 30-year tranches and was sold via joint bookrunners Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC), J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.(JPM) and [...]

Private Placement of Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. of $350M in Notes

Private Placement of Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. of $350M in Notes
Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. announces pricing of $350 million private placement of senior notes due 2021
Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE:CHKM) announced the pricing of its previously announced private placement offering of $350 million of senior notes due 2021 (the “Notes”). The Notes will bear [...]

Private Placement for Oracle Coalfields

Private Placement for Oracle Coalfields
Oracle Coalfields plc (ORCP), the UK developer of an estimated 1.4 billion tonne coal resource in the south-
eastern desert of Sindh Province, Pakistan, announces that it has applied today for the Company’s ordinary
shares to be admitted to trading on the AIM of the London Stock [...]

Private Placements May Have New Rules

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Private Placements May Have New Rules
Federal securities regulators are moving toward easing decades-old constraints on share issues by private companies, in a sweeping review that could remake the way American start-ups raise capital.
The review by the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosed in a letter to a lawmaker, could fuel the fast-growing market in private shares [...]

Private Placement Conclusion for California United Bank

Private Placement Conclusion for California United Bank
California United Bank Announces Successful Completion of Private Placement Offering – Raises $10,265,739
ENCINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–California United Bank (OTCBB: CUNB) announced that it has successfully completed a private placement offering of its common stock to 16 select institutional and other accredited investors with total subscriptions of $10,265,739. The Bank sold [...]

144A Private Placement of $600M for Aramark

144A Private Placement of $600M for Aramark
Aramark to raise up to $600M in Private Placement debt offering
Aramark Holdings Corp. will raise up to $600 million through a private placement debt offering.
The privately held company intends to use the proceeds to pay a dividend to stockholders, it said.
Aramark Holdings Corp. is the indirect parent of Aramark [...]

144A Private Placement of $2 Billion for CIT

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144A Private Placement of $2 Billion for CIT
CIT Announces Pricing of $2 Billion of Second-Priority Secured Notes
NEW YORK –(BUSINESS WIRE)– CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), announced the pricing of a private placement of $2 billion aggregate principal amount of Series C Second-Priority Secured Notes, consisting of $1.3 billion principal amount due 2014 and $700 million [...]