The Sale of ServiceMaster

According to bizjournals the deal for ServiceMaster was for $4.5 billion, however I think the buyer agreed to take over the ServiceMaster debt as I understand it, which would put the deal at about $5.5 billion. The article is located here. Take a look.

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Here is what the buyer said, according to bizjournals.

"To us, ServiceMaster is the perfect private equity holding," Sam Darkatsh, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates Inc., wrote in a research note Monday. "Huge, low-risk cash flows, the ability to roll up a fragmented industry and/or sell existing business lines, no Asian import or technological obsolescence risk, terrific brand names, and large (read: deep-pocketed) strategic players who could ultimately present an end game (or IPO, of course)."