Initial Public Offering

Technology & Services
Initial Public Offering

Summary

Baird served as a senior co-manager on this offering.

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CDW Corporation (“CDW” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ-GS: CDW), a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners, recently completed an initial public offering of 23,250,000 shares of common stock at a price of $17.00 per share, generating gross proceeds of approximately $395.3 million. CDW intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for debt repayment and other general corporate purposes.

CDW is a Fortune 500 company and a leading provider of integrated information technology (“IT”) solutions in the U.S. and Canada. The Company helps its base of more than 250,000 small, medium and large business, government, education and healthcare customers by delivering critical solutions to their increasingly complex IT needs. The Company’s broad array of offerings range from discrete hardware and software products to integrated IT solutions such as mobility, security, data center optimization, cloud computing, virtualization and collaboration. CDW is technology “agnostic,” with a product portfolio that includes more than 100,000 products from more than 1,000 brands. CDW is headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois.

For additional information about this transaction, please contact:

Randy Lyon (312) 609-4931
Bill Mahler (414) 765-7345
Peter Kies (414) 765-7262
Tom Lange (813) 273-8248
Jeff Seaman (312) 609-4687
Les Cheek (617) 426-5789
Technology & Services
Initial Public Offering
Date
June 2013
Company
CDW Corporation
Transaction
M&A
Sectors
Technology & Services
Target Geography
North America

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