M/A-COM Seeks $230M IPO

Lowell, MA-based M/A-COM Technology Solutions indicated in an SEC filing that it seeks to raise $230 million through an initial public offering. The company, which makes wireless chips, is owned by the semiconductor-focused private equity fund GaAs Labs, whose owner John Ocampo bought the firm for around $90 million in 2009. Lead underwriters for the deal are Barclays Capital, J.P. Morgan, and Jefferies.

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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.