Coupons.com engaged Brunswick Group for PR counsel through the Silicon Valley company's successful initial public offering this week.
The Mountain View-based provider for discount vouchers sold 10.5M shares at $16 a piece to surpass a $1B overall valuation. Its shares started trading today on the New York Stock exchange as COUP and soared 80% in morning trading.
Darren McDermott, a 17-year Wall Street Journal alum who joined Brunswick as a director in 2012, is working the Coupons.com account.
Coupons.com, which had 2013 revenue of $167.9M, in January recruited CNET News editor-in-chief Paul Sloan as VP of corporate communications.
Teneo is handling the initial public offering of CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms with nearly $200B in assets under management.
Brunswick Group represents Endeavor Group Holdings as it agrees to go private via its acquisition by Silver Lake technology investment firm, which is handled by Edelman Smithfield.
Tod Donhauser, a nine-year veteran of Edelman, has joined H/Advisors Abernathy as managing director and head of its San Francisco office.
Intelligent Group Ltd, a Hong Kong-based financial PR firm, has priced its initial public offering of 1.9M shares at $4, which is the low end of the $4 to $5 range.
Kekst CNC represents Grant Thornton as it sells a majority stake in its US arm to New Mountain Capital, which relies on Goldin Solutions, in what is billed as the largest PE investment in the accounting and advisory sector.
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