Toys R Us announced plans to sell up to an estimated $800m (€650.5m) in stock through an initial public offering, the latest in a series of private-equity deals.
The private-equity industry has been looking to generate cash from stakes in a number of the large deals they struck during the buyout boom before the financial crisis. However, in the past month, IPOs have struggled to debut amid stock market volatility and concerns about Europe's sovereign debt crisis.
