Bain Capital Offers to Acquire Macromill for 51.4 Billion Yen
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Bain Capital Partners LLC, the private investment firm with more than $70 billion in assets, offered to buy all shares in Macromill Inc., a Japanese online market-research company, for 51.4 billion yen ($501 million).
Bain proposed to buy as many as 65.4 million shares of Tokyo-based Macromill for 786 yen per share, the Japanese company said in a statement through the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Macromill, in which Yahoo Japan Corp. is the biggest shareholder with 22 percent according to data compiled by Bloomberg, will be delisted after the completion of the tender offer, it said in the statement.