Quintiles Completes Previously Announced New Investor Partnership

Carolina Newswire
25th Jan 2008

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Quintiles Transnational Corp. announced the completion of its previously announced new investor partnership to support the company's continued growth under the leadership of founder and current Chairman and CEO Dennis Gillings, CBE, and the management team. Gillings and global private investment firms Bain Capital and TPG Capital have become the lead investors in Quintiles, with 3i also becoming a significant investor. Temasek Holdings remains an investor in Quintiles. As part of the transaction, One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), has sold its stake in the company to the new investor partnership. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company incurred no new debt as a result of the deal. >>>> More