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Brunswick Group is handling Coherent Inc., the Santa Clara industrial laser maker, which is at the center of a bidding war.
Coherent on Jan. 19 agreed to $5.7B cash/stock merger with San Jose-based Lumentum Holdings optical and photonic products outfit,
It then received more lucrative offers and counter-offers from MKS Instruments (Andover, MA-headquartered process control systems), II-VI (Saxonburg, PA-based engineered materials, optoelectronics company) and Lumentum.
Lumentum revised its offer to $287 per-share on March 22 and gave Coherent a March 24 deadline to respond.
Brunswick has Charlie Koons, Jonathan Doorley and Rebecca Kral working the Coherent business.
MKS Instruments relies on Kekst CNC (Tom Davies and Jeremy Fielding.
II-VI uses Sard Verbinnen & Co. (George Sard, Jared Levy and David Isaacs).
Lumentum depends on Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher (Eric Brielmann and Kelly Sullivan).
Edelman handles Viking Holdings, the river and ocean luxury cruise line that plans to raise $1B via an IPO priced in the $21 to $25 per share range.
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.
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