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TPG Capital and the Canada Pension Plan have agreed to buy IMS Health (NYSE: RX), a provider of data on prescription drug sales, for $22 per share (50% premium to last Friday’s closing price). The total deal would be valued at around $5.2 billion, including the assumption of debt. Goldman Sachs is providing the leveraged finance.

(Reuters) – Canadian logistics services provider Livingston International Income Fund (LIV_u.TO) agreed to be taken private by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Sterling Partners in a deal valued at about C$225.3 million ($213.6 million). Under the deal, Livingston’s unit holders would receive C$8 per unit in cash, representing a premium of 20 percent based [...]

The Canada Pension Plan and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are both denying a Dow Jones report that they are part of a group designed to “press buyout firms to give them a greater say over how their money is managed.” The article listed four groups as part of the lobbying effort, including CPP, Ontario Teachers, AlpInvest (Netherlands) and GIC (Singapore). In all the quartet manages over $100 billion of private equity assets.

“It is categorically untrue,” says Deborah Allen, director of communications for Ontario Teachers. “We regularly talk to other LPs — that’s part of our job — but we have no exclusive conversations or organization like was described… I think the technical term would be ‘poppycock.’”