AVG Technologies, the anti-virus software company backed by Intel Capital, Grisoft Holdings and private equity firm TA Associates, has priced its initial public offering at $16 per share, Reuters reported Wednesday. The company, which competes with Symantec and McAfee, was expecting to price its IPO of 8 million shares between $16 and $18 a share.

InfoSpace said Tuesday that it has closed its buy of TaxACT. The deal was valued at $287.5 million. TA Associates owned a majority stake. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based TaxACT provides online tax solutions.

Quotient Bioresearch has announced a management buyout financed by TA Associates, the existing private equity shareholder. Terms of the buyout were not disclosed. Quotient is a UK-based provider of outsourced development services, serving pharmaceutical and life science customers on a global basis. PRESS RELEASE Quotient Bioresearch(“Quotient”) has today announced a management buyout financed by TA [...]

The big news today is that Facebook is reportedly planning to register to go public next week. It should come as no surprise, then, that our most popular post this week was about this year’s prime IPO candidates. Other hot topics included the above-average performance of the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System’s PE portfolio, a surge in VC investing and promotions at Carlyle and TA Associates. Here are the top 10 posts peHUB’s regular readers found most compelling from Jan. 23 to Jan. 27

1. Slideshow: Bring on the 2012 IPO Candidates – by Joanna Glasner
2. Scorecard: San Francisco Builds A Winning PE Portfolio – by David Toll
3. Venture Investing Rebounds In 2011 With Early Stage Leaping To A 10 Year High: Slideshow – by Mark Boslet
4. Aydin Senkut Recalls a Game of Pool with Aaron Levie Led Him to Milo.com: PHOTOS – by Alastair Goldfisher
5. Slideshow: Smart Grid, Smart Play? – by Jonathan Marino
6. TA Associates Promotes Eight – by peHUB staff
7. Carlyle Promotes 41 Execs – by peHUB staff
8. Global PE M&A Does Well in 2011 – by Angela Sormani
9. TransDigm Group Acquires AmSafe Global – by peHUB staff
10. Battery, Bay and USVP Could See 22x Return from Guidewire IPO – by Lawrence Aragon

TA Associates Realty has acquired the America’s Gateway portfolio, a four-building distribution warehouse portfolio in Miami, for just over $19 million. CBRE Capital Markets marketed the portfolio and negotiated the transaction on behalf of the seller, Clarion Partners. PRESS RELEASE TA Associates Realty acquired the America’s Gateway portfolio, a four-building distribution warehouse portfolio in Miami, [...]

TA Associates has announced global promotions of eight staff members. With offices in Boston, Menlo Park, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong, TA Associates leads buyouts and minority recapitalizations of profitable growth companies in the technology, financial services, business services, healthcare and consumer industries. PRESS RELEASE TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, today [...]

Anti-virus software maker AVG Technologies said that it would sell 8 million shares at $16 to $18 apiece in its initial public offering, Reuters reported Tuesday. The company filed last week for an IPO. AVG Technologies is backed by investors including Intel Capital, Grisoft Holdings and TA Associates.

AVG Technologies NV, a Netherlands-based maker of Internet security software, has filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $125 million in an initial public offering. The company has raised money from Intel Capital, Grisoft Holdings and private equity firm TA Associates.

Boston-based TA Associates has sold its portfolio company, Microban, a provider of branded antimicrobial ingredients, to W.M. Barr. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. M&A investment bank The Valence Group advised TA Associates on the transaction. PRESS RELEASE The Valence Group, a specialist M&A investment bank offering advisory services to companies and investors [...]

TA Associates has sold Microban to W.M. Barr. Financial terms weren’t announced. Microban supplies antimicrobial product protection. News of the sale was disclosed by the Valence Group which advised TA Associates in the sale.