M&A Report--October 2005.BUSINESS SERVICES Seller: AMB Private Equity Partners (South Africa), Capital International (Los Angeles), CitiCorp (New York), Ethos Fund IV (South Africa), Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa), Rmb Corvest (South Africa), TIAA-CREF TIAA-CREF Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund (New York), Transnet Pension Fund (South Africa) sold Waco International (South Africa) Business: Manufactures, sells and rents scaffolding and portable buildings Buyer: Catalyst Investment Managers Pty (Australia), CVC See CSC. Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Deal Value: ND Seller: AuctionWagon (West Hollywood) Business: Develops eBay drop-off services and software Buyer: Net2auction: OTCPK:NAUC NAUC National HIV/AIDS Update Conference (Las Vegas) Deal Value: ND Seller: CEB Business Insurance Services (Costa Mesa) Business: Brokers employee benefits Buyer: Hub International of California (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Dalgleish & Co (London) Business: Manages retail property Buyer: CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. Group (El Segundo) Deal Value: ND Seller: Everest ES NV (Belgium) Business: Rents test and measurement equipment Buyer: Electro Rent Corp (Van Nuys) Deal Value: ND Seller: GFI Informatique SA:ENXTPA:GFI (France) sold GFI Informatics (UK) Business: Provides technology and communications services Buyer: Platinum Equity (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Hamilton Pacific (Pasadena) Business: Provides security services and project management Buyer: Securitas Security Systems (New Orleans) Deal Value: ND Seller: Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin (Los Angeles) Business: Provides investment banking services Buyer: ORIX USA Corporation (Dallas) Deal Value: $500 million Seller: Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management (Los Angeles) Business: Provides asset management Buyer: Phoenix Investment Partners (Hartford, CT) Deal Value: $80 million Seller: Neilson Elggren (Los Angeles) Business: Provides accounting and consulting services Buyer: LECG LECG Law and Economics Consulting Group LECG Laboratory of Ecological and Conservation Genetics Corp: NasdaqNM:XPRT (Emeryville) Deal Value: $9 million Seller: Northridge Equipment Rentals (Northridge) Business: Rents and sells heavy equipment Buyer: Sunbelt Rentals (Charlotte, NC) Deal Value: $70 million Seller: Strategic Media International (Hong Kong) Business: Investment holding company Buyer: Starwin Media Holdings: OTCPK:SWMD SWMD Special Weapon of Mass Destruction SWMD Standardized Weighted Mean Difference (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Upcoming.org (Los Angeles) Business: Provides online event planning services Buyer: Yahoo!: NasdaqNM:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) (Sunnyvale) Deal Value: ND CONSUMER Seller: Alain Manoukian SA:ENXTPA:ALA (France) Business: Manufactures women's clothing Buyer: BCBG BCBG Bon Chic Bon Genre Max Azria (Vernon) Deal Value: $7 million Seller: Buffalo Grill SA:ENXTPA:BUF (France) Business: Owns and operates restaurants Buyer: Eurazeo SA (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $39 million Seller: Claim Jumper Restaurants (Irvine) Business: Owns and operates restaurants Buyer: Leonard Green & Partners (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Fitness Nutrition and Weight-loss Company (Pompano Beach) Business: Provides fitness, nutrition and weight-loss services Buyer: Xynergy Corp: OTCPK:XYNY (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Fox & Hound Restaurant Group: NasdaqNM:FOXX (Wichita, KS) Business: Owns and operates entertainment restaurants Buyer: Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: $144 million Seller: Rampage Clothing Co. (Los Angeles) Business: Retails women's clothing Buyer: Iconix Brand Group Iconix Brand Group is a brand management company that licenses brands to retailers and manufacturers primarily in the apparel, footwear, and apparel accessory industries. Its brands are available in such stores as Kohl's, Kmart, Sears, Macy's, Mervyn's and JC Penney. : NasdaqNM:ICON (Purchase, NY) Deal Value: $46 million Seller: Sears Roebuck & Co.: NasdaqNM:SHLD SHLD Should SHLD Store Hl Direct SHLD Shift Left Double (Hoffman Estates, IL) sold Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation (San Jose) Business: Operates hardware stores Buyer: Ares Management (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $59 million Seller: Sports Tour Classics (Scottsdale) Business: Provides sports travel programs Buyer: RazorGator (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Tavemiti So Jeans (Los Angeles) Business: Manufactures fashion jeans Buyer: Blue Holdings: OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :BLHL (Commerce) Deal Value: $4 million Seller: The Amusement Factory (Van Nuys) Business: Provides amusement vending services for retailers Buyer: Coinstar: NasdaqNM:CSTR CSTR Centre for Speech Technology Research CSTR Canister CSTR Continually Stirred Tank Reactor CSTR Center for Software Testing Research (Florida Tech) CSTR Combat System Trial Rehearsal (US DoD) (Bellevue, WA) Deal Value: $36 million Seller: The Bead Shop (Milwaukee) Business: Designs and manufactures products for girls Buyer: Small World Kids (Culver City) Deal Value: $20 million Seller: Veng USA (Seekonk, MA) Business: Sells and services auto body parts Buyer: Keystone Automotive Industries: NasdaqNM:KEYS (Pomona) Deal Value: ND ENERGY Seller: Bottle Rock Power Corporation (Santa Rosa) Business: Operates power stations Buyer: US Renewables Group (Santa Monica) Deal Value: ND Seller: Cook Inlet Energy Supply (Los Angeles) Business: Supplies natural gas Buyer: Macquarie Bank: ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange :MBL (Sydney, Australia) Deal Value: ND Seller: Vintage Petroleum: NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :VPI (Tulsa) Business: Oil and gas exploration and production Buyer: Occidental Petroleum Corp (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $4 billion HEALTH CARE Seller: American Funds (Santa Aria), Ashford Capital Management (Wilmington, DE), Bain Capital (Boston), Bausch & Lomb: NYSE:BOL (Rochester, NY), Capital Research and Management (Los Angeles), Crossmark Capital (New York), Essex Private Placement Fund (Boston), Essex Woodlands Health Ventures (Chicago), Morgan Stanley Funds pie (New York), Smallcap World Fund (Los Angeles), T. Rowe Price T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) is an independent global investment management firm and mutual fund manager based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1937 by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.. T. Threshold Partnerships (Baltimore, MD) sold Control Delivery Systems (Watertown, MA) Business: Manufactures drug delivery products Buyer: Psivida: ASX:PSD (Australia) Deal Value: $105 million Seller: Bioceuticals (Irvine) Business: Biotechnology research and development Buyer: Sunnylife Global (West Covina) Deal Value: ND Seller: Botanical Health Resources (Los Angeles) Business: Distributes herbal medicine Buyer: Eu Yan Sang International: SGX:E02 (Singapore) Deal Value: ND Seller: Cassidy Employee Benefit Services (Pasadena) Business: Provides health and welfare benefits consulting Buyer: Acordia (Chicago) Deal Value: ND Seller: DataClaim (Culver City) Business: Provides electronic medical claims services Buyer: Eclaims (Kearney, NE) Deal Value: ND Seller: Tenet Healtheare Corp: NYSE:THC THC tetrahydrocannabinol. THC n. Tetrahydrocannabinol; a compound that is obtained from cannabis or is made synthetically; it is the primary intoxicant in marijuana and hashish. (Dallas) sold Community Hospital of Huntington Park (Huntington Park) Business: Healthcare provider Buyer: Karykeion (North Hollywood) Deal Value: ND Seller: Tenet Healthcare Corp: NYSE:THC (Dallas) sold Mission Hospital of Huntington Park (Huntington Park) Business: Healthcare provider Buyer: Karykeion (North Hollywood) Deal Value: ND INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING Seller: Aviation Worldwide (Los Angeles) Business: Brokers aircraft parts Buyer: Aviation Rotables Supply (France) Deal Value: $2 million Seller: Avnet: NYSE:AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. (Phoenix) sold Avnet Electronics Marketing, Microwave Technical Solutions (San Jose) Business: Manufactures microwave components Buyer: Teledyne Technologies: NYSE:TDY (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. (Pasadena) sold Arroyo Sciences (Pasadena) Business: Develops solutions for the security market Buyer: VIASPACE: OTCBB:VSPC VSPC Visual Storage Personal Computing (Altadena) Deal Value: ND Seller: Cinemills Corporation (Burbank) Business: Develops lighting equipment Buyer: Gener8Xion Entertainment: OTCBB:GNXB (Hollywood) Deal Value: $1 million Seller: Degussa AG: DB:DGX (Germany) sold Esm Group (Amherst, NY) Business: Manufactures injection reagents and equipment Buyer: Platinum Equity (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: $55 million Seller: Lime Chemicals (India) Business: Manufactures coated calcium carbonate Buyer: Duke Equity Partners (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT Seller: Crave Entertainment Group (Rancho Dominguez) Business: Publishes and distributes entertainment software Buyer: Handleman Co.: NYSE:HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. (Troy, MI) Deal Value: $95 million Seller: Doc Hollywood Studios: OTCPK:DHWS DHWS Domestic Hot Water Services (West Hollywood) Business: Produces motion pictures Buyer: Doc Hollywood Kidz (City of Industry) Deal Value: ND Seller: GoldPocket Interactive (Los Angeles) Business: Distributes equipment for digital and interactive media Buyer: Tandberg Television ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and :OB:TAT (Norway) Deal Value: $79 million Seller: IFILM Corp (Hollywood) Business: Operates broadband entertainment network Buyer: MTV Networks Music (New York) Deal Value: $49 million Seller: Media Magic: OTCPK:MAMG (Jupiter, FL) sold Orangebox Entertainment (Burbank) Business: Develops interactive content for the entertainment industry Buyer: Cirilium Holdings: OTCPK:CRLU (West Palm Beach, FL) Deal Value: $5 million Seller: Rebel Crew Films (Beverly Hills) Business: Licenses and distributes films Buyer: Digicorp: OTCBB:DGCO DGCO Deputy Grant Coordinating Officer (FEMA) (Milwaukee) Deal Value: ND Seller: Vivendi Universal Games (Los Angeles) sold Coktel (France) Business: Develops and distributes entertainment and game software Buyer: Mindscape (Novato) Deal Value: ND Seller: Yankee Bingo (Portland, ME) Business: Operates based bingo games Buyer: Bingo.com: OTCBB:BNGO.F (Marina del Rey) Deal Value: ND REAL ESTATE Seller: Arden Realty: NYSE:ARI ARI Acute respiratory infection, see there (Los Angeles) sold Irvine Corporate Center (Santa Ana) Business: Owns and operates commercial property Buyer: Broe Real Estate (Denver) Deal Value: ND Seller: Brothers Property Corporation (Coral Gable, FL), Great American Life Insurance Company (Cincinnati) sold The Driskill Hotel (Austin) Business: Hotel property Buyer: Lowe Enterprises (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Hilton Hotels Corp: NYSE:HLT HLT See: Highly leveraged transaction (Beverly Hills) sold Hilton Boston Back Bay (Boston) Business: Hotel property Buyer: Highland Hospitality Corp (Mclean, VA) Deal Value: $110 million TECHNOLOGY Seller: AABC AABC Associated Air Balance Council AABC Archives Association of British Columbia AABC American Amateur Baseball Congress AABC Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges AABC Aarhus Business College (Aahus, Denmark) Computer Associates (Fayetteville, TN) Business: Provides computer repair services Buyer: IVI Communications (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Amerindo Investment Advisors (New York), Anthem Venture Partners (Santa Monica), DFJ ePlanet Ventures (Germany), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. (Menlo Park), Dynafund Ventures (Torrance), Hamilton Apex Technology Ventures (San Diego), Hamilton Bioventures (San Diego), Lake Street Capital (San Francisco), Network Appliance: Nasdaq:NTAP (Sunnyvale) sold Troika Networks (Westlake Village) Business: Develop data management software Buyer: Qlogic Corp: NasdaqNM:QLGC (Aliso Viejo) Deal Value: $37 million Seller: eBrandSecure (Los Angeles) Business: Provides brand protection and monitoring Buyer: Corporation Service Company (Wilmington, DE) Deal Value: ND Seller: GKM Ventures (Los Angeles), iSherpa Capital (Denver), Rolling Oaks Enterprises (Venice), Shelter Capital Partners (Los Angeles), VantagePoint Venture Partners (San Bruno) sold TransDimension (Irvine) Business: Manufactures semiconductors Buyer: Oxford Semiconductor (UK) Deal Value: ND Seller: Honeywell International: NYSE:HON (Morristown, NJ) sold Brand-Rex (UK) Business: Provides data communication and specialty cable systems Buyer: Gores Group (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Radiant Detector Technologies (Northridge) sold X-Ray Detector Business (Northridge) Business: Manufactures x-ray detectors Buyer: SII NanoTecnology (Tokyo, Japan) Deal Value: ND Seller: RR Donnelley & Sons Co.: NYSE:RRD (Chicago) sold PEAK Technologies (Columbia, MD) Business: Systems integrator of AIDC equipment and systems Buyer: Platinum Equity (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Shenzhen Capital Group Co. (China) sold Jump Technology Co. (China) Business: Provide network security solutions Buyer: The Hartcourt Companies: OTCBB:HRCT HRCT high-resolution computed tomography. (Pasadena) Deal Value: ND Seller: Texas instruments: NYSE:TXN (Dallas) sold Intelligent Instrumentation (Tucson) Business: Manufactures Ethernet systems Buyer: Skyview Capital (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: True Data Partners (South Pasadena) Business: Provides electronic discovery services Buyer: First American Corp: NYSE:FAF (Santa Ana) Deal Value: ND Seller: Valley (Fayetteville, TN) Business: Provides service Buyer: IVI Communications (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Weblogs (Santa Monica) Business: Operates an web log portal site Buyer: Time Warner: NYSE:TWX (New York) Deal Value: ND Seller: Xtore Extreme Storage (City of Industry) Business: Manufactures electronic data storage Buyer: Advanced Industrial Computer (City of Industry) Deal Value: ND TELECOM Seller: Santera Systems (Piano, TX) Business: Manufactures switching solutions for telecom networks Buyer: Tekelec: NasdaqNM:TKLC (Calabasas) Deal Value: $76 million Seller: YesTel (Lomita) sold YesTel Telecommunication Assets (Malaysia) Business: Provides telecom services Buyer: Key West Global Telecommunications Bhd.: KLSE KLSE See: Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange :KEYWEST (Malaysia) Deal Value: $3 million TRANSPORTATION Seller: Asean Logistics (Torrance) Business: Provides freight forwarding services Buyer: Wako Logistics Group: OTCBB:WKOL (Hong Kong) Deal Value: ND Seller: Concentrek (Jenison, MI) Business: Provides transportation management and supply chain solutions Buyer: UTi Worldwide: NasdaqNM:UTIW (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Platinum Equity (Beverly Hills) sold ACR See riser card. Logistics UK (UK) Business: Provides logistics services Buyer: Kuehne & Nagel International AG:SWX:KNIN (Sweden) Deal Value: $592 million |
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