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Dun & Bradstreet Acquisition

Dun & Bradstreet Enters Into a Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Investor Group Led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings and Thomas H. Lee Partners
Dun & Bradstreet, the global leader in commercial data, analytics and insights for businesses, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an investor group (the “Investor Group”) led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings and funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), along with a group of other distinguished investors… read more

Consortium to buy Dun & Bradstreet for $6.9bn
An investor group led by ex-Blackstone dealmaker Chinh Chu's CC Capital agreed to buy data analytics company Dun & Bradstreet late Wednesday evening for $6.9bn… read more

Investors to Buy Dun & Bradstreet in $6.9 Billion Deal
Dun & Bradstreet Corp., the 177-year-old provider of commercial data, agreed to be bought by an investor group led by CC Capital, Cannea Holdings Inc. and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a transaction valued at $6.9 billion, including debt… read more

Dun & Bradstreet to go private for $5.38 billion
Data and analytics company Dun & Bradstreet Corp said on Wednesday it would be acquired by a group of investors led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings and funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, for $5.38 billion in cash… read more

Collier Creek SPAC

Collier Creek Holdings, Founded by Chinh E. Chu, Roger K. Deromedi and Jason K. Giordano, Rings Closing Bell at The New York Stock Exchange
Collier Creek Holdings, Founded by Chinh E. Chu, Roger K. Collier Creek Holdings announced today that its founders rang The New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") Closing Bell^® on October 5, 2018, to celebrate the initial public offering of the Company's units on the NYSE… read more

Collier Creek Holdings, Founded by Chinh E. Chu, Roger K. Deromedi and Jason K. Giordano, Announces Pricing of $400 Million Initial Public Offering
Collier Creek Holdings announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 40,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. The units will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and trade under the ticker symbol "CCH.U" beginning on October 5, 2018… read more

Collier Creek Holdings, Founded by Chinh E. Chu, Roger K. Deromedi and Jason K. Giordano, Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Collier Creek Holdings announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") relating to its proposed initial public offering of units… read more

Blank check company Collier Creek prices IPO
New York-based blank check company Collier Creek Holdings said late Thursday that its initial public offering of 40 million shares priced at $10 a share… read more

Term Sheet – Friday, September 14
Collier Creek Holdings, a New York-based SPAC, plans to raise $350 million. Pinnacle Foods Chairman Roger Deromedi runs the firm. Citi, Credit Suisse and BofA Merrill Lynch are underwriters. It plans to list on the NYSE as "CCH.U"… read more

Fidelity & Guaranty Life Acquisition

CF Corporation to Acquire Fidelity & Guaranty Life in Transformative All-Cash Transaction Valued at $1.835 Billion
CF Corporation and Fidelity & Guaranty Life, a leading provider of fixed indexed annuities and life insurance in the U.S., today announced that their boards of directors have each unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which CF Corp. will acquire FGL for $31.10 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $1.835 billion, plus the assumption of $405 million of existing debt… read more

Fidelity & Guaranty to be bought for $1.84 billion
CF Corp CFCO.O, a blank check company founded by veteran dealmaker Chinh Chu, said it would buy U.S. annuities and life insurer Fidelity & Guaranty Life FGL.N in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.84 billion… read more

Exclusive: Blackstone veteran dealmaker Chu eyes $1 billion IPO – sources 
Chinh Chu, the veteran dealmaker who ended a 25-year career at Blackstone Group LP last year, is preparing to launch an acquisition company that could raise up to $1 billion in a U.S. initial public offering… read more