Generac Holdings has announced an underwritten secondary offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock by funds affiliated with CCMP Capital. The selling stockholders will receive all of the proceeds from this offering.

New York City ground to a halt Monday as residents prepared for the worst of Hurricane Sandy. Both the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ were closed, and Wall Street was deserted. Private equity, however, kept on working.

CCMP Capital Advisors has acquired Milacron. Financial terms weren’t announced. Cincinnati-based Milacron is a plastics processing and industrial fluids company.  BofA Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Barclays and Keybanc Capital Markets provided debt financing.  Goldman Sachs provided legal and financial advice to Milacron. PRESS RELEASE Milacron LLC announced today its acquisition by affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors, [...]

Private equity needs to do a better job of communicating its successes, buyout executives said today at the Thomson Reuters PartnerConnect conference in New York.

So, which blog posts and news stories rose to the top of the most-read list this week?

Following are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers of peHUB from August 1-5. (We do a separate list for the week’s most popular slideshows.) This week’s hot topics include fund-raising news from Avista Capital, CCMP Capital and Sycamore Partners;a video job pitch to Google gone viral; a critique of a Washington Post article on VCs and entrepreneurship (arguably the worst ever); and alumni networks that have formed around successful startups such as VMware, Tesla Motors and AdMob.
1. Matthew Epstein: “I’m Shocked Google Hasn’t Issued a Cease and Desist Order” by Connie Loizos
2. Worst Analysis of VCs and Entrepreneurship EVER! by John Backus
3. VCJ Cover Story: The Networking Effect by Joanna Glasner
4. Teten & Farmer: VC and PE Funds’ Best Practices In Sourcing Investments by David Teten
5. What’s next For Real Estate Venture? by Joanna Glasner
6. Warburg Pincus Eyes Small Fries by Joseph Giannone
7. Avista Capital Looks To Raise $2B Fund by Luisa Beltran
8. Ex-JPMorgan Affiliate Looks to SWFs As It Gears Up For Fund III by Bernard Vaughan
9. Golden Gate spin-out, Raising First Fund, Takes Stake in Talbots by Bernard Vaughan
10. Guggenheim Venture Partners Becomes Alara Capital press release

CCMP Capital Advisors is in talks to buy Medpace, a Cincinnati-based contract research organization, two sources said.

The deal is valued at roughly $500 to $600 million, one person says.

Founded in 1992, Medpace provides clinical drug development services for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. It employs about 1,000 people globally.

The sale of Medpace was not an auction, one banker says. Instead, CCMP has been in exclusive talks to buy Medpace, the source says.

British vacuum technology maker Edwards has set a price range of 200 to 270 pence for its London listing, Reuters reported. The company is currently owned by private equity groups CCMP Capital and Unitas Capital. Edwards will sell roughly 35% of the company during the offering, Reuters reported.

LHP Hospital Group, which is backed by private equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors, has named Paul Kappelman division president, and added Vance Reynolds as CEO of its Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Kappelman is the former CEO of Northwest Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. Reynolds was previously CEO of Mississippi-based River Region Health System. LHP Hospital Group is based in Plano, Texas.

Edwards Group, the British vacuum technology firm backed by CCMP Capital and Unitas Capital, has said that sales and profits will grow in the second half of 2010, ahead of its planned sale or flotation. Reuters reports that CCMP and Unitas Capital have valued the company at about 1.5 billion pounds ($2.4 billion).

Robert McGuire has joined CCMP Capital as a senior member of the firm’s London office. He most recently served as vice chairman of J.P. Morgan Cazenove.