Olaplex ups IPO price, hopes to raise almost $1.5B
The Montecito-based hair care products company Olaplex upped the projected share price of its planned initial public offering on Sept. 28 and now expects to raise as much as $1.46 billion. Olaplex now plans to price its upcoming IPO at $17 to $19, it said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Read More →
Santa Barbara mayor’s race enters last leg
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New funding round values Apeel Sciences at $2B
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Procore makes its biggest acquisition yet
Procore Technologies announced its first acquisition since going public in May, and it’s the largest one in company history. The Carpinteria-based construction software company said on Sept. 22 that it is purchasing Levelset, a New Orleans-based construction software company, for $500 million: $425 million in cash and $75 million in the form of Procore common Read More →
Amgen wins patent case
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen had a big win in court on Sept. 20, as a federal court in New Jersey upheld multiple Amgen patents for its psoriasis treatment, Otezla. Amgen filed a patent infringement lawsuit earlier this year against two companies, Sandoz and Zydus Pharmaceuticals, claiming that their generic versions of Otezla infringed upon at least Read More →
U.S. Bank’s $8B deal to buy Union Bank could make it region’s biggest banking company
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted Sept. 21 and updated Sept. 23 with more reporting about the pending bank merger. Union Bank’s 29-branch network in the Tri-Counties will become part of U.S. Bank in an $8 billion deal that will give Union Bank’s Japanese parent a nearly 3% stake in Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp. In Read More →
Paso’s Pearce Services continues acquisition spree
Pearce Renewables, a Paso Robles-based operator of renewable energy structures, announced Sept. 16 that it has acquired Mountain Renewables, a provider of technical field services for wind energy and utility-scale solar. Pearce Renewables is a subsidiary of Pearce Services, a Paso Robles company that services infrastructure in the telecommunications, railroad, energy and utility industries. It Read More →
