La Quinta Holdings booked ICR for communications support as the Irving, Tex.-based group of 830 hotels unveiled a $650M IPO on April 9.
Blackstone Group bought the company in 2006 for $2.3B.
LA Quinta serves the midscale hotel market through its La Quinta Inn & Suites and La Quinta Inn properties in the US, Canada and Mexico.
ICR managing director Phil Denning and VP Jason Chudoba are advising La Quinta and handling media relations. Teresa Ferguson is director of communications and PR for La Quinta.
The Wall Street Journal noted La Quinta's IPO was one of 14 in the US this week, the biggest such week since 2007.
La Quinta shares closed at $17.12 after the first day of trading, up from its $17 IPO price.
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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