Here’s when Walgreens will go private after its $10 billion private-equity buyout

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  Walgreens to go private in roughly $10 billion deal

  Struggling drugstore chain Walgreens is going private.
  
  NBC News - 3h

• Walgreens’ breakup looms as $10 billion sale to go private is reportedly in the works

  Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is closing in on a roughly $10 billion deal to sell itself to Sycamore Partners, a private-equity firm, which would then take Walgreens private and ...
  
  MarketWatch - 2d

• Walgreens to go private in roughly $10 billion deal with Sycamore Partners

  The historic transaction ends Walgreens' tumultuous run as a public company, which began in 1927.
  
  CNBC - 3h

• Walgreens agrees to be acquired by private equity firm

  Walgreens, founded in 1901, has been a public company since 1927.
  
  CBS News - 1h

• Private-equity buyout activity slows down in a troubling sign for investment banks

  Dealmakers in private equity say economic uncertainty is making sponsors more cautious.
  
  MarketWatch - 5h
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  Sycamore to take Walgreens private in up to $24bn deal

  Buyout of group behind Boots will bring to an end the drugstore chain’s century-long run as a public company
  
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  Bluebird Bio will sell itself to private equity firms Carlyle and SK Capital for about $30 million, the company said Friday.
  
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  PE and venture capital investors have good reason to eye the markets this year
  
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  Assets under management fell 2% last year as investors pulled back from sector
  
  Financial Times - 1d

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