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More than half of the U.S. initial public offerings planned for this year are from private-equity firms as KKR, Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group try to sell some of their biggest leveraged buyouts.
HCA Holdings, Nielsen Holdings, Kinder Morgan and more than two dozen other companies owned by private-equity firms have registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell $14 billion of shares in IPOs, according to data compiled by Bloom berg.
