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March 20, 2014

Will the Real ISS Buyer Please Stand Up? Vestar Capital Partners

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

On Tuesday morning, I got this press release announcing that ISS had been sold by MSCI to Vestar Capital Partners to the tune of $364 million. Drats! Fooled again by a rumor in the mass media as I had blogged last week about another likely purchaser due to a WSJ article.

The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter. ISS will operate independently and the current ISS executive team will remain in place. Here’s a Reuters’ article