The busiest year for leveraged buyouts of public companies by number was 1988, with 80 going private.
Going private will allow them to re-brand and rebuild without the market's influence and ever-watchful eye.
In that way shareholders will have a real choice between the Going Private Transaction and our proposal.
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Blue-chip companies are going private. foreign companies are scorning public markets in the U.S. and going public--abroad.
My argument is entirely the opposite: is going private the best way to stop developing the company?
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Riding high on rumors that the company is going private, Dell rose 18 percent this year.
This is a critical business problem in government running cybersecurity: brilliant minds get big paychecks for going private.
So, if not going private, and not hiring any of the aforementioned names as CEO, who should Yahoo!
Dell tells his employees that the firm will "significantly increase investment" in PCs and tablets after going private.
And on the eve of it going private, things don't appear to be on the verge of changing.
Rival HP is not going private for the moment and, again, seems to have even more problems than Dell.
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The rich already opt out, by going private or moving to the suburbs.
Going private can mitigate a lot of that pressure, as long as the decision is made for the right reasons.
As for going private, Mr. Seesel believes that ship may have sailed.
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Going private will buy the company time to fix itself without worrying about the impact on quarterly results and fluctuating share prices.
The IPO window is all but shut in the U.S., for the reasons stated previously relating to the recent going private phenomenon.
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John Latham, secretary of Manchester's dentist's committee, said a survey had found half of the city's 230 dentists were "seriously considering" going private.
Having reviewed the Going Private Transaction, we believe that it is not in the best interests of Dell shareholders and substantially undervalues the company.
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Unlike its rival, HP apparently doesn't have any interest in going private, although its own stock price has plunged during the past two years.
In the Dell case, the original firm that broached the idea of going private with Michael Dell last summer was frozen out of the deal.
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Dell has recently held talks with buyout firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG about going private.
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Some on the RetailWire BrainTrust panel saw benefits from going private.
At one of Playboy's first big bashes after going private in 2011, much seemed as usual for a brand that has embodied American hedonism for nearly 60 years.
But that is exactly the reason why Dell will be bolstered by going private, Michael Dell will go back to his scrappy roots with a long view.
Many of the companies going private were underperforming and battered.
Is going private the best way to develop the company?
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Whether or not this happens with American Greetings, the process of going private should give it time to augment growth so the family can decide what to do next, he said.
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Coupled with the recent reports that Nasdaq itself was considering going private, this announcement is a telling admission that companies increasingly wish to avoid the casino-like atmosphere of the U.S. public markets.
Nor does he think and this has been much debated at the top of the firm for the past two years that going private would be better for Dow than remaining a public company.
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