FTC OK's Palm Equity Sale

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:41:39 AM

The AP is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission has approved Elevation Partners $325 million purchase of a 25% stake in Palm Inc., without imposing any conditions.

The Federal Trade Commission included the Elevation-Palm deal on a list of transactions Thursday that received an "early termination" of their antitrust review. Early termination refers to the completion of a review before the end of a 30-day waiting period specified under antitrust law.

The deal, announced last month, includes the sale of 25% stake in Palm for $325 million and a new $400 million loan to finance a new recapitalization plan that will pay out a $9.00 per share cash distribution to stockholders.

In addition, Jon Rubinstein, former senior vice president of hardware engineering and head of the iPod division at Apple, is joining Palm as executive chairman of the board. Fred Anderson and Roger McNamee, managing directors and co-founders of Elevation, will also join Palm's board of directors upon closing of the transaction. Rubinstein, Anderson, and McNamee will replace Eric Benhamou and D. Scott Mercer, who will resign from Palm's board of directors at that time.

The deal is expected to be put to a shareholder vote at a special meeting to follow later this summer.

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A $400 loan that will net $9/share?

jeffhoward001 @ 7/12/2007 4:15:47 PM # Q
Hell, looks like a need to buy some Palm stock and lend them the $400 bucks :-p

Tungsten T --> Palm TX --> Foleo-mini??(like an LD-II with a small attached keyboard??)
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