| Yingli Green Energy Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option |
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--(www.FinancialNewsUSA.com)-- 07/02/2009 - IPOs industry news provided by Financial News USA. BAODING, China, June 30 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE), one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") product manufacturers, today announced that it closed the sale of an additional 2,790,000 American Depositary Shares ("ADSs"), each representing one ordinary share of Yingli Green Energy, at the public offering price of US$13.00 per share, pursuant to the over-allotment option exercised in full by the underwriters of its recent follow-on offering, which priced on June 16, 2008. The exercise of the over-allotment option brings the total number of ADSs sold by Yingli Green Energy in the follow-on offering to 18,390,000 and the aggregate net proceeds received by Yingli Green Energy to approximately US$227.4 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. [Read the full article] WAYZATA, Minn., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) ("Northern Oil") today announced that it has closed on its previously-announced registered direct offering of 2,250,000 shares of its common stock at $6.00 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $13.5 million. C.K. Cooper & Company acted as lead placement agent on the transaction. Northern Oil expects to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay a portion of the current borrowings under its revolving credit facility, primarily including borrowings incurred in connection with its recently announced acquisition of additional Bakken assets. The offering was conducted pursuant to Northern Oil's effective shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). [Read the full article] LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colony Financial, Inc. announced today that it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form S-11 in connection with the initial public offering of its common stock. Colony Financial, Inc. is a newly organized real estate finance company that will be externally managed by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Colony Capital, LLC. Colony Financial will acquire, originate and manage a diversified portfolio of real estate-related debt instruments. The Company initially intends to focus primarily on acquiring, originating and managing commercial mortgage loans, which may be performing, sub-performing and non-performing loans (including loan-to-own strategies), and other commercial real estate-related debt investments, including commercial mortgage-backed securities. [Read the full article] MORRISVILLE, N.C., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI) today announced the pricing of $100 million principal amount of its 5-1/2% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the "Convertible Notes") in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The Convertible Notes offering is expected to close on July 2, 2009. Alliance One has also granted the initial purchasers an option to purchase up to an additional $15 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Notes solely to cover over-allotments. The Convertible Notes will be general unsecured obligations of Alliance One, subordinated in right of payment to all of the Company's existing and future senior debt and pari passu in right of payment with all existing and future senior subordinated indebtedness. [Read the full article] About Financial News USA Financial News USA is a Next Generation Financial Communications firm focused on the distribution of market moving news. Financial News USA has developed leading edge e-publishing tools including programming proprietary RSS feeds and enabling open source press release publishing across its network. Financial News USA has been aggressively expanding its news distribution network by targeting direct feeds to financial news and data providers such as FinancialContent, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), among others. Financial News USA offers a free news feed available online (www.financialnewsusa.com) to websites and financial services looking for content and for individual investors looking to stay informed on the financial markets. Financial News USA and its affiliates charge each client cash for news distribution and may take an equity position in the companies mentioned herein, please visit the disclaimer at www.financialnewsusa.com. 
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