July 29, 2011 7:27 PM
IPO Roundup: Dunkin’ Brands Gets Fat on Sugar-Coated Shares
Posted by Hannah D’Apice
The big news on the IPO front this week, of course, was the better-than-expected debut of Dunkin’ Brands, the Canton, Mass.–based operator of the Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands.
Dunkin’ shares sold at $19 apiece, raising more than $422.75 million dollars for the company and exceeding the initial $16-18 per-share goal envisioned by underwriters J.P. Morgan, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Goldman, Sachs.
As The Am Law Daily has previously reported, Ropes Gray and Simpson Thacher Bartlett served as legal counsel on the offering, with Ropes Gray partner Craig Marcus acting as lead counsel to Dunkin’ Brands. Ropes counseled two of Dunkin’s Boston-based private equity owners, Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, when they
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