Pursuits

Sycamore to Buy Jones Group Fashion Firm for $1.2 Billion

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Jones Group Inc., owner of the Nine West and Jones New York fashion brands, said it’s selling itself to private-equity firm Sycamore Partners LLC for $15 a share.

That values the deal at $1.2 billion, or about $2.2 billion including debt, New York-based Jones said yesterday in a statementBloomberg Terminal. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of next year and will take the company private.