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CNN Money: M&A and IPOs

By Dan Primack | CNN Money

McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) has agreed to buy German drug distribution company Celesio (DB: CLS1) for approximately $8.3 billion, including debt, or €23 per share. www.celesio.com

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has acquired APIphany, a Washington, D.C.–based API management delivery platform.  No financial terms were disclosed. J. Moore Partners managed the process.www.apiphany.com

PROS Holdings Inc.
 (NYSE: PRO) has agreed to acquire Cameleon Software (Paris: CAM), a French provider of configure price quote software. The deal is valued at approximately €24 million. www.cameleon-software.com

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
 (Nasdaq: RRD) has agreed to acquire Houston-based commercial printing company Consolidated Graphics Inc. (NYSE: CGX) for around $620 million in cash and stock. The deal works out to around $62 per share for Consolidated Graphics, representing a 2.1% premium over Tuesday’s closing price. www.cgx.com

Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co. (HK: 44) has agreed to acquire TIMCO Aviation Services, a Greensboro, N.C.–based provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, fromOwl Creek Asset Management. The deal is valued at approximately $388.8 million. www.timco.aero

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) has agreed to acquire TribeHR, a Waterloo, Ontario-based provider of a social HR platform. No financial terms were disclosed. TribeHR backers include Matrix Partners andRelay Ventureswww.tribehr.com

Mavenir Systems, a Richardson, Texas-based provider of mobile infrastructure solutions for LTE operators, has set its IPO terms to 4.8 million shares being offered at between $15 and $17 per share. It plans to trade on the NYSE under ticker symbol MVNR, with Morgan Stanley, BoA Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank serving as lead underwriters. The company reports an $8 million net loss on $48 million in revenue for the first half of 2013, compared to a $5.65 million net loss on $40 million in revenue for the year-earlier period. It has raised around $105 million in VC funding, from firms like North Bridge Venture Partners (24.5% pre-IPO stake), Austin Ventures (23.1%), Alloy Ventures (17.1%), August Capital (16.3%), Cisco Systems (10.9%), Cross Creek Capital and Greenspring Associates. www.mavenir.com

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