MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Candlewood Consultants and its principals have performed due diligence, provided financial analysis of past and projected operating results, prepared selling documents, and negotiated with debt and equity sources in numerous transactions, including the following:

• The $380 million acquisition of W. A. Krueger, the nation's second-largest printing company by the large Swiss publishing company, Ringier AG.

• The sale of a $42 million majority interest in Thomas Built Buses, the nation's largest school bus manufacturer, to Odyssey Partners.
  

• The acquisition of a multi-state theater chain by Norman Lear's Act III Communications.
  

• The purchase of a group of magazines, including Personal Computing, by the Dutch firm, VNU Publications.
  

• The sale of a number of Act III Publications magazine properties to various trade publishers.
  

• The refinancing of a minority interest in Cinecom, an independent motion picture producer and distributer.
  

• The sale of a minority interest in MPI, a microchip manufacturer, to a Korean joint venture partner.
  

• The sale of Venture Economics, a publishing and database service focusing on venture capital.

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