KKR, a private-equity firm, is expanding its capital-markets unit and has begun underwriting share offerings, starting with firms in its own portfolio.
Groupon's chief executive and founder, Andrew Mason, has also expressed his interest in taking the company public with a share offering.
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The company last said it would price its stock between $8.00 and $10.00 per share, offering 10.5 million shares (along with the option for underwriters to purchase an additional 1.6 million shares).
Lucent and Morgan Stanley declined to comment on the share offering and on their financial dealings with each other.
Almost 60 per cent of the initial share offering was bought in the United States, with a third sold in Britain and the rest mainly in the Netherlands.
They made it tough for anyone other than professionals and the rich to take part in the action, something never before done with a new share offering on the exchange.
As they tried to pay back emergency aid from the federal government, many banks raised additional capital through share offerings, leaving them with a larger number of shareholders.
Raise the prices high enough, as happened five years ago, and all kinds of issuers come out of the woodwork with share offerings.
They've come back strongly, though, as many REITs have raised money with share offerings and now may be poised to acquire properties for half of what they would have paid in 2007.
