Sep 3, 2009 8:17 PM
In the Incisive Media blowup and the subsequent split, some other interesting details have come out in a memo the North America CEO Bill Pollak sent out earlier this morning to U.S. employees, reprinted below. Among the changes: the U.S. arm will be rebranded as ALM, the original name of…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Countries, Europe, UK, alm, apax partners, bill pollak, incisive media
Aug 20, 2009 4:06 PM
The Deal Professor on NYTimes.com raises some great questions on the Bankrate’s sale deal to Apax Partners, after combing through the tender offer SEC filings. Among the main points raised: the management seems to want to push through the deal with Apax, and may not have gone through a full…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, apax partners, bankrate
Aug 2, 2009 6:17 PM
On its Q209 earnings call, Bankrate (NSDQ: RATE) CEO Tom Evans spoke at length about his company’s decision to go private, in a pending deal to be acquired by Apax Partners for $571 million. Some good thoughts on why it made sense, though I’m intrigued by the tone they’ve taken:…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, apax partners, bankrate
Jul 22, 2009 1:38 PM
Updated below with more deal details: Consumer financial information and lead gen service Bankrate (NSDQ: RATE) is being acquired by PE firm Apax Partners, in a deal just announced. The North *Palm* Beach, FL-based company is also announcing its its horrendous Q209 prelim results in conjunction with the deal. Will…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, apax partners, bankrate
Apr 24, 2008 5:05 PM
So some reality check coming into the sale process of Reed Business Information, the business publishing arm of Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) . We have learned that Apax, initially thought of as being one of the main contenders to buy the RBI worldwide division as a whole, is now sitting…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, apax partners, reed business information, reed elsevier, ubs
Mar 11, 2008 8:43 AM
Ed’s Note: Welcome to Inside The Deals, a weekly column about M&A in the media written by veteran business journalist Steve Rosenbush. Steve is based in New York, and previously was the finance writer for BusinessWeek.com, responsible for coverage of M&A. His interests include the evolving business of media. He…
Posted In: Features, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, apax partners, reed business information, reed elsevier, ubs
Feb 22, 2008 6:19 PM
As I chalked out on some of the possible options yesterday for Reed Business, it seems Apax is already considering a bid, according to Times UK. UBS has been appointed to advise on the divestment. Then others I forgot to mention yesterday, on the strategic buyers side: UK-headquartered United Business…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, apax partners, nielsen, reed business information, reed elsevier
Jan 31, 2008 12:14 PM
Thus ends the long story of Audible (NSDQ: ADBL). I have always had a particular affinity with Audible, ever since I started paidContent.org in 2002 and two years prior. It was based in Wayne, NJ, the town I moved to first when I moved out east after finishing school in…
Posted In: Companies, Amazon, Apple, iTunes, Countries, Europe, Russia, apax partners, audible
Dec 21, 2007 12:14 PM
So ends the saga of Emap (LSE: EMA), one of the biggest magazine companies to ever exist in UK. It has sold off its remaining division, the B2B media unit, to PE firm Apax and Guardian Media Group for 1 billion pounds ($2 billion), two weeks after it finalized the…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Guardian Media Group, apax partners, emap, guardian media group, incisive media
Dec 15, 2007 10:44 AM
Private equity firm Apax Partners, which has been a long time investor in spoken word digital audio firm Audible, (NSDQ: ADBL) is in the process of selling off its stake through a public offering, according to an SEC filing. Apax and its affiliated funds are divesting more than 23 percent…
Posted In: Money, apax partners, audible
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