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Smithfield separates from European arm
Smithfield Foods announced Tuesday that its European operations have been carved into an independent subsidiary. The action takes place a little over a month after Smithfield‘s Chinese parent company, WH Group, which has its headquarters in Hong Kong, announced plans to take the company public in the United States. Smithfield Europe, now to be called […]
Fluence announces next CEO, president
Julian Nebreda will become Arlington-based energy storage and digital applications company Fluence Energy Inc.’s president and CEO on Sept. 1. Nebrada succeeds Manuel Pérez Dubuc, who will step down on Aug. 31. Nebreda has been a Fluence board member since September 2021 and was most recently executive vice president and president of U.S. & Global […]
SPAC-ulative finance
One of the hottest investment tools in the past year and a half has imploded. But don’t give up on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs as these peculiar financial structures are called, industry experts say. Also called blank-check companies, SPACs are here to stay, but not necessarily at the high-flying levels of 2020 and […]
Fluence launches IPO that could raise $868M
Fluence Energy Inc., an Arlington-based energy storage and digital application company owned by Siemens and AES Corp., launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 31 million shares of Class A common stock Thursday at $28 per share. The company is trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “FLNC.” As of 3:55 […]
Fluence files plans for IPO
Fluence Energy Inc., an Arlington-based energy storage and digital application company owned by Siemens and AES Corp., announced this week it has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its Class A common stock. The number of shares and price range for the proposed offering have not […]
Genworth completes IPO for mortgage insurance subsidiary
Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. completed the once-delayed initial public offering of its mortgage insurance subsidiary, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Enact Holdings Inc., it announced Monday. Between the IPO and a private sale of shares, Genworth received aggregate net proceeds of about $535 million after underwriters’ fees but before other expenses. Genwort[...]
Genworth launches IPO for mortgage insurance subsidiary
Nearly five months after it was first announced, Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. on Monday launched an initial public offering for its private mortgage insurance subsidiary, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Enact Holdings Inc. Genworth Holdings Inc. (GHI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial, is offering 13.31 million shares of common stock in […]
Reston-based Bowman Consulting Group raises $51.7M in IPO
Reston-based civil engineering company Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. has raised $51.73 million in its initial public offering that closed Tuesday, selling 3.69 million shares at $14 a share since Friday. Sold under the symbol BWMN on the Nasdaq Global Market, shares traded between $12.60 and $14.90 as of Tuesday afternoon. After closing its sale of […]
Genworth files for mortgage insurance biz IPO
Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday for a proposed initial public offering of the company’s mortgage insurance business. J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC will serve as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering of Genworth Mortgage Holdings Inc. (GMHI), a […]
Tysons risk analytics firm announces two acquisitions
Tysons-based risk analytics firm Qomplx Inc. announced Wednesday it would acquire Huntsville, Alabama-based cyber intelligence firm Sentar and London-based insurance software modeling firm RPC Tyche. Financial terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Qomplx announced earlier this month its plan to go public through a merger agreement with Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisit[...]
Leonardo DRS files IPO registration
The Italian federal defense contractor Leonardo announced Friday it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an planned initial public offering (IPO) of its U.S. subsidiary, Arlington-based Leonardo DRS. The $2.54 billion IPO could take place in March, according to reports from Reuters. Leonardo did not release the official amount […]
Arlington-based Leonardo DRS considering IPO
The Italian federal defense contractor Leonardo, the parent company of Arlington-based Leonardo DRS, is considering holding an initial public offering (IPO) of the U.S. subsidiary. In a Feb. 19 statement the company said it “is evaluating the possibility of proceeding with the listing of Leonardo DRS,” but that a formal decision has not yet been […]
