Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Bear Stearns' Everquest withdraws IPO-filing

(Reuters) - Everquest is a Cayman Islands-registered business jointly run by Bear Stearns Asset Management and Stone Tower Capital LLC, a hedge fund firm specializing in debt. Everquest manages a portfolio of collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, which are themselves packages of corporate loans, asset-backed securities and securities issued by other CDOs.




Everquest, which held $720 million of CDOs and other assets at the end of last year, filed plans on May 9 for an IPO. But the transaction immediately came under fire from critics who said the firm's close ties to Bear Stearns would lead to conflicts of interest.


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