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Testing for hire: INC Research files for a $150 million IPO

INC Research Holdings, a global contract research organization LBO'd by Avista and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering. Avista and the OTPP acquired INC Research from...read more

Trial by hire: KKR's clinical trial outsourcer PRA Health Sciences files for a $375 million IPO

PRA Health Sciences, a global contract research organization LBO'd by KKR, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $375 million in an initial public offering. Contract research organizations (CROs) perform outsourced clinical trials for biotechnology firms....read more

Renaissance Capital's 2013 US IPO Annual Review

2013 was the best year for the US IPO market since 2000. Against a favorable backdrop marked by a rising stock market, low interest rates, reduced volatility and increased risk tolerance among investors, a total of 222 companies went public and raised $55...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