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LivingSocial Selects Underwriters for Planned IPO
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LivingSocial, the number two competitor to the group-discount website Groupon, has selected the lead underwriters for a planned initial public offering, among them JP Morgan, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank [DB
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Although the initial paperwork hasn't yet been filed, the D.C. based company has been exploring an IPO that could be sized at about a billion dollars, and believes it has implied valuation between $10 billion and $15 billion.
In terms of the bank lineup, three names are conspicuously absent from that list: Morgan Stanley [MS
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Groupon registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission early last month. The deal is expected to be at least $750 million in size.
Although there will likely be some overlap between the banking teams on the two deals—JP Morgan [JPM
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Those calling the shots for Groupon and LivingSocial, which could potentially both come to market this fall, are likely to be separate.
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