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January 15, 2021
Matt Kaulig offers insight into his dealmaking decisions
Matt Kaulig, executive chairman of Kaulig Companies, talks about his M&A outlook, as well as how he’s guided his family of businesses to success....
By Adam Burroughs
January 15, 2021
United BioSource's Patrick Lindsay focuses on the interests of ownership in an M&A process
Patrick Lindsay, CEO of United BioSource, offers insight into the company’s M&A history, as well as its approach to the M&A process....
By Adam Burroughs
January 15, 2021
The Riverside Co. Invests In Two Commercial Outdoor Services Companies
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has invested in Clintar and TruNet, leading providers of commercial outdoor services....
By Adam Burroughs
January 13, 2021
Evergreen Podcasts Takes Ownership Position in Ars Longa Media
Ars Longa's podcasts will be the core content on Evergreen's new medical and wellness podcast channel....
By Adam Burroughs
January 12, 2021
Savin Sales Associates Acquired By BenefitMall
Savin Sales Associates serves the Ohio independent brokerage community...
By Adam Burroughs
January 8, 2021
Dealmaker Conversations: Hugh Cathey
ChromoCare CEO Hugh Cathey shares his insights on the M&A market and his outlook for future dealmaking....
By Adam Burroughs
January 8, 2021
Locke Lord’s Michael Wilson sees a faster deal pace, but caution, in 2021
Locke Lord Partner Michael Wilson says though M&A activity remains high, the ways in which investors are transacting — a flight to quality, greater willingness to do minority investments — has changed heading into 2021....
By Adam Burroughs
January 8, 2021
CareDx To Acquire TransChart
CareDx Inc. has agreed to acquire OSU spinout TransChart, a Columbus-based provider of electronic health record software supporting the needs of US transplant centers....
By Adam Burroughs
January 8, 2021
EverCommerce Acquires Updox
EverCommerce has completed the acquisition of Updox, a health care communication platform for in-person and virtual care....
By Adam Burroughs
January 7, 2021
Neuros Medical Raises $38.5M in Series BB Funding
The financing provides Neuros with capital to complete enrollment of the pivotal QUEST (High-FreQUEncy Nerve Block for PoST-Amputation Pain) study...
By Adam Burroughs
January 5, 2021
Guardian Technologies Acquired By Lasko
Lasko Products LLC, a leader in home environment products, has acquired Guardian Technologies LLC, a leader in air purification....
By Adam Burroughs
January 5, 2021
A-1 Preferred Sources Acquires On The Mark Services
A-1 Preferred Sources has acquired On The Mark Services Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
January 4, 2021
Neste acquires minority stake in Alterra Energy
The companies are working together towards a global rollout of Alterra’s liquefaction technology....
By Adam Burroughs
December 28, 2020
Turning Liquidity Into Purpose
Ron Ambrogio, Ray Dalton, Rod Howell and Peter Van Euwen offer their advice on selling a business and preparing for life after ownership....
By Adam Burroughs
December 23, 2020
Area Wide Protective Acquired By Kohlberg & Company
Area Wide Protective, a utility services firm, has been acquired by Kohlberg & Company, LLC....
By Adam Burroughs
December 22, 2020
The Softer Side of the Selling: Communications and Internal Prep
Jerrad Beauchamp, Andy Billman, Chris Meso and Tom Zucker explore the softer side of sell-side communications and internal deal prep....
By Adam Burroughs
December 22, 2020
How outside deal pros helped Arnie Burchianti find needle-in-a-haystack buyers
Arnie Burchianti talks about the importance of surrounding yourself with people who have strengths where you have weaknesses....
By Adam Burroughs
December 22, 2020
Vector Management's Ken Levitan: Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
Vector Management founder Ken Levitan offers his advice on getting philanthropically involved after selling your business....
By Adam Burroughs
December 22, 2020
RVI Sells Two Properties
Retail Value Inc. has closed on two sales....
By Adam Burroughs
December 21, 2020
Peptilogics Closes $35.4 Million Series B Financing
Peptilogics has closed a $35.4 million Series B financing round led by Presight Capital....
By Adam Burroughs
December 21, 2020
Align Capital Partners Grows Elevator Services Platform
Align Capital Partners’ elevator services platform Southwest Elevator Company has executed on several growth initiatives....
By Adam Burroughs
December 18, 2020
PPG to Acquire Tikkurila
PPG has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tikkurila in an all-cash transaction....
By Adam Burroughs
December 17, 2020
Jeffrey Getty: Common seller mistakes that can derail a deal
KeyBank's Jeffrey Getty on the three main areas sellers should address that begin to close value gaps or find value enhancements that can alter deals for the better....
By Adam Burroughs
December 17, 2020
Greg Skoda: Raising Capital to Survive in Uncertain Times
Greg Skoda, speaking at the Smart Business Dealmakers Conference in September, offered his take on companies’ pandemic capital situation, and how business owners and executives have responded....
By Adam Burroughs
December 17, 2020
Lake Health to Join University Hospitals
Lake Health has agreed to join University Hospitals, establishing Lake Health as UH’s Lake County flagship community-based health care provider....
By Adam Burroughs
December 16, 2020
CBIZ Acquires BeyondPay Inc.
CBIZ Inc., a leading provider of financial, insurance and advisory services, announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of BeyondPay, Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
December 15, 2020
Sweeping Corporation of America Acquires Four
Sweeping Corporation of America, a power sweeping company, has acquired Total Asphalt Services, Clean Sweep, Buckeye Sweeping, and US Sweeping....
By Adam Burroughs
December 15, 2020
Eaton to Acquire a 50 Percent Stake in HuanYu High Tech
Power management company Eaton has signed an agreement to acquire a 50 percent stake in HuanYu High Tech, a subsidiary of HuanYu Group....
By Adam Burroughs
December 15, 2020
ChiliSleep and Ebb Therapeutics Merge
Kryo, the parent company of sleep technology brand ChiliSleep, today announced that it has merged with Ebb Therapeutics....
By Adam Burroughs
December 15, 2020
Centene to Acquire PANTHERx Rare Pharmacy
Centene Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PANTHERx....
By Adam Burroughs
December 14, 2020
MAI Capital Management Partners With Smith Capital Management
MAI Capital Management LLC, an independent registered investment adviser, is partnering with Smith Capital Management Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
December 14, 2020
Olympic Steel Acquires Action Stainless & Alloys
Olympic Steel Inc. has acquired the assets of Action Stainless & Alloys, Inc. in an all-cash deal....
By Adam Burroughs
December 14, 2020
The Shamrock Companies Acquires Enform
The Shamrock Companies, a Northeast Ohio-based marketing, technology and project management solutions provider, has acquired EnForm Graphic Productions, Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
December 14, 2020
UPMC Acquires Ireland's Oldest Private Hospital
UPMC will expand services at Aut Even Hospital in Kilkenny, Ireland with acquisition....
By Adam Burroughs
December 11, 2020
Carlton D. Dean III on how the pandemic reshaped deal priorities
Carlton D. Dean III talks about how the pandemic has affected both the state of the market, and the state of his M&A thinking....
By Adam Burroughs
December 11, 2020
Dean Zayed on how being a seller informed his approach to being a buyer
Brookstone Capital Management's Dean Zayed talks about both the AmeriLife and the FormulaFolios deals, and how one informed the other....
By Adam Burroughs
December 7, 2020
Basking Biosciences, Inc. Completes $5.4M Seed Financing
Basking Biosciences, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, announced an initial closing of a $5.4M Seed Series financing....
By Adam Burroughs
December 4, 2020
PNC Wealth’s Jim Benedict on navigating post-election tax environment
PNC Wealth Management’s Jim Benedict dives into wealth planning strategies business owners should consider heading into a transaction, as well as common issues they tend to overlook....
By Adam Burroughs
December 3, 2020
David Woodburn sees great buyer-Seller cooperation during the disruption
David Woodburn, a shareholder at Roetzel & Andress, offers his sense of the deal market, what companies can do to prepare for crises in the future, and more....
By Adam Burroughs
December 3, 2020
Jeff Hewitt on finding the right buyer for the situation
Jeff Hewitt explains how his former company strengthened itself internally by working with a financial buyer, a move that enabled it to be sold from a position of increased strength a few years later....
By Adam Burroughs
December 3, 2020
The J.M. Smucker Co. to Divest its Natural Balance Business
The J.M. Smucker Co. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Natural Balance® premium pet food business to Nexus Capital Management LP, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $50 million...
By Adam Burroughs
December 3, 2020
CapitalWorks Invests in Electromechanical Research Laboratories, Inc.
Cleveland private equity firm CapitalWorks has completed a majority investment in Electromechanical Research Laboratories, Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
December 3, 2020
Nordson Corporation to Sell Screws and Barrels Product Line to Altair Investments
Nordson Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to divest the screws and barrels product line from its polymer processing systems division to Altair Investments....
By Adam Burroughs
December 3, 2020
Olive Acquires Verata Health
Olive is set to acquire Verata Health, a health care AI company....
By Adam Burroughs
December 2, 2020
Evolution Capital Partners Invests in Health Technologies Incorporated
Evolution Capital Partners LLC has made a strategic growth investment in Health Technologies Incorporated....
By Adam Burroughs
December 2, 2020
The Riverside Co. invests in Cordico
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, has invested in Cordico....
By Adam Burroughs
November 26, 2020
ascena retail group Signs Asset Purchase Agreement with Sycamore Partners, $540m deal includes Lane Bryant
ascena retail group, inc. and certain of its subsidiaries has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Premium Apparel LLC, an affiliate of Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm specializing in consumer, retail and distribution investments, to sell ascena’s Ann Taylor, LOFT, Lane Bryant and Lou & Grey brands....
By Adam Burroughs
November 24, 2020
Kathleen McCann sees a tale of two economies
Is it the best of times? Or is it the worst of times? The answer, according to Kathleen McCann, executive chairman of United Road Services and executive partner at Nonantum Capital Partners, is both....
By Dustin Klein
November 23, 2020
MAI Capital Management Acquires Greenway Family Office
MAI Capital Management, LLC is set to acquire Greenway Family Office....
By Adam Burroughs
November 23, 2020
Turnspire Capital Partners Completes Acquisition of Goodyear Air Springs
Turnspire Capital Partners LLC has completed the acquisition of the Goodyear air springs business from EnPro Industries, Inc. Goodyear....
By Adam Burroughs
