Bain Capital relied on Stanton PR & Marketing this week for PR support in two major transactions -- the $2.4B acquisition of Blue Coat Systems and $2B sale of Air Medical Group Holdings.
The Boston private equity firm snapped up the privately held cyber security company Blue Coat from buyout firm Thoma Bravo. Reports of the deal noted Bain could consider a public offering for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Blue Coat amid ramped up focus on digital security in the wake of several high-profile corporate breaches.
Stanton CEO Alex Stanton reps Bain. Maureen O'Connell heads in-house PR for Blue Coat, while MSLGroup is the company's outside counsel.
Meanwhile, Bain and Brockway Moran & Partners a day later agreed to sell helicopter ambulance service provider Air Medical to to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for a reported $2B. The Texas-based company provides medical transport from 34 states via helicopter and airplane.
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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