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PE Firm Offers To Take JDate Parent Spark Networks Private
PE firm Grant Hill Partners, which might be best known for buying (and then selling) IGN, wants to take online dating company Spark Networks private. Grant Hill, which bought a minority stake in Spark in late 2005 and now owns about a quarter of the company’s stock, is offering to buy the shares it does not own in a deal that would value the company at roughly $64 million.
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