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KKR and Dragoneer complete $4.8bn take-private of edtech firm Instructure

Private Equity Wire

Global investment firms KKR and Dragoneer Investment Group have completed their acquisition of Instructure Holdings, a provider of education technology including the Canvas learning management platform, in a deal valued at approximately $4.8bn. As a result, Instructure has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.

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IPO Alert: You'll Soon Be Able to Invest Alongside Billionaire Bill Ackman

The Motley Fool

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is planning to create a new publicly traded investment fund and is kicking off a pre-IPO roadshow to build investor interest. The new fund will be called Pershing Square USA and will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PSUS.

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Why Chewy Was a Shaggy Dog of a Stock on Friday

The Motley Fool

Chewy added that the selling stockholder has granted the sale's underwriter, white-shoe investment bank Morgan Stanley , a 30-day option to purchase an additional 2.5 Its class A common stock is the equity traded on the New York Stock Exchange; its class B shares hold greater voting power and are transferable to A shares.

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Thoma Bravo exits financial risk software company Adenza to Nasdaq for $10.5bn

Private Equity Insights

In 2020, New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange acquired mortgage software specialist Ellie Mae from Thoma Bravo for $11bn, another deal led by Spaht, that was one of the most successful private equity deals in recent years.

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After Microsoft's Landmark Deal With Constellation Energy, Could This Little-Known Stock Be the Next Big Opportunity in Nuclear Power?

The Motley Fool

Image source: Getty Images.investors should keep the following in mind Oklo started trading on the New York Stock Exchange back in May after merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ). Over the last couple of years, SPACs have risen in popularity.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

The Big Picture

She is the president of the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest, with over 2,400 listed companies for a combined market cap of about $36 trillion. She is also chair of the fixed income and data services at ICE, Intercontinental Exchange. Is it the investment bank? MARTIN: Absolutely.

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Lit Communities Announces Majority Investment from Oak Hill Capital to Accelerate Broadband Deployment

Oakhill

is a full-service investment banking firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas serving a broad client base of corporations, state and local governments, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors throughout the United States and overseas. The firm is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and SIPC.

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