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Frac sand for sale: Smart Sand Partners LP files for a $100 million IPO

Smart Sand Partners LP, an MLP formed by Clearlake Capital to own frac sand production assets in Wisconsin, filed on Thursday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. Frac IPOs Smart Sand Partners LP initially filed...read more

Fairmount Santrol files for an IPO that could raise $1 billion for American Securities

FMSA Holdings, an LBO'd global provider of sand and sand-based products to oil and gas E&Ps, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering, although the deal size is likely just a placeholder. We estimate the company...read more

US IPO Recap: Ten deals price, highest weekly total since 2010

Deal flow picked up from already high levels, but returns were light in a ten-IPO week, just the second since 2007. Half of the week’s deals were from financial companies, while the largest was a $947 million offering from Quintiles Transnational (Q), a...read more

Seven US IPOs debut on Thursday, most in a single day since 2004

Seven deals began trading on Thursday, marking the most US IPOs to debut in a day since December 15, 2004. Thursday's group included single-family residential REIT American Residential Properties (ARPI), packet-optical networking vendor Cyan (CYNI), frac...read more