Pharmaceutical Product Development, which provides contract research services companies to pharma and biotech companies worldwide, has returned to the public markets. Its IPO, on Thursday, February 6, came eight-plus years after Hellman & Friedman and Carlyle completed its leveraged buyout of the company. The result? PPD’s IPO assigned it an initial enterprise value close to $14 billion, up from the $3.6 billion valuation at which it was valued in its December 2011 take-private transaction.
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