A quartet of PR firms is working the four-way deal to take for-profit education giant Apollo Education private in a $1.1B transaction.
The transaction sees The Vistria Group, Apollo Global Management and Najafi Companies buy the publicly traded AEG for $9.50 per share in cash, a 30 percent premium on its Feb. 5 share price.
Tony Miller, COO and partner of The Vistria Group and a former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Education, will take the chairman reins of the Apollo Education Group Board at the close of the deal.
AEG is the owner of the online education juggernaut University of Phoenix.
Brunswick Group (Apollo Education Group), Rubenstein Associates (Apollo Global Management, no relation to Apollo Education), SKDKnickerbocker (Vistria Group) and Lavidge Company (Najafi) are providing outside PR counsel and media support.
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