IPOs

Rexnord Holdings (NYSE: RXN) filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering of its common stock. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $750 million. The company plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol "RXN".

Rexnord is a global multi-platform industrial company strategically positioned within the markets and industries it serves. Currently, Rexnord's business is comprised of two strategic platforms: (i) Power Transmission, which produces gears, couplings, industrial bearings, aerospace bearings and seals, flattop, special components and industrial chain and conveying equipment, and (ii) Water Management, which produces professional grade specification plumbing, water treatment and waste water control products.

Brand Energy (NYSE: BEI) filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering of its common stock. The proposed maximum aggregate offering price is $300 million. The company plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol "BEI".

The offering is being made through Goldman Sachs, UBS Investment Bank and Morgan Stanley.

Brand Energy is a provider of specialty multi-craft services to the North American downstream energy infrastructure market. In 2007, approximately 85% of its pro forma revenue was generated from maintenance and capital expenditures by customers in the refining, Canadian Oil Sands, petrochemical and power generation industries.

Potlatch Corporation (NYSE: PCH) has unanimously approved the Company’s previously announced plan to pursue a tax-free spin-off of its pulp-based businesses into a publicly-traded company called Clearwater Paper Corporation. The planned spin-off is subject to final Board approval based on regulatory, market and other conditions.

A spin-off will create two stand-alone, publicly-traded entities: a timber REIT, which is a verified forest practices leader with 1.7 million acres of forestland in Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota and Wisconsin; and a pulp-based manufacturing company that will include Potlatch’s Consumer Products facilities in Lewiston, Idaho, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Elwood, Illinois, and its Pulp & Paperboard facilities in Lewiston, Idaho, and Cypress Bend, Arkansas. The businesses to be spun-off had revenues of approximately $1.2 billion in 2007.

After the completion of the spin-off, Potlatch will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “PCH,� and shares of Clearwater Paper are expected be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Michael J. Covey will remain Chairman, President and CEO of Potlatch. As previously announced, Gordon L. Jones will be President and CEO of Clearwater Paper. Potlatch will remain headquartered in Spokane, Washington, and Clearwater Paper’s headquarters will be based in the Spokane area at a new office location that has not yet been determined.[SM]

CapitalSource Inc. (NYSE: CSE) intends for its wholly owned subsidiary, CapitalSource Healthcare REIT, to file a registration statement on Form S-11 with the Securities and Exchange Commission within the next 30 days for the initial public offering of CapitalSource Healthcare REIT's common shares. The initial public offering of common shares in CapitalSource Healthcare REIT is expected to raise at least $300 million for CapitalSource.

CapitalSource Healthcare REIT is a carve-out of CapitalSource's healthcare net lease segment and will be managed by CapitalSource. Following the IPO, CapitalSource will continue to own the majority of CapitalSource Healthcare REIT.

China Distance Education Holdings (NYSE: DL) has filed an amended registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering of its common stock. The Company is offering 35,000,000 shares (or 8,750,000 American Depositary Shares) and expects the offering price to be between $9-$11 per share. The Company plans to list on the NYSE Arca under the symbol "DL".

The offering is being made through Citi, Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer & Co. and Piper Jaffray.

China Distance Education offers a wide range of online education and test preparation courses and other related services and products. The company's courses are designed to help professionals and other course participants obtain and maintain the skills, licenses and certifications necessary to pursue careers in China in the areas of accounting, law, healthcare, construction engineering, information technology and other industries.