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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
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 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 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
RVI Sells Two Properties
Retail Value Inc. has closed on two sales....
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 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 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 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
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 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 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
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 20, 2020
Equity Trust Co.’s George Sullivan On Finding Opportunity In Disruption
George Sullivan, CEO of Equity Trust Company, says the fundamental question on investors’ minds right now is when will conditions be better? For Sullivan, that’s the wrong question....
By Adam Burroughs
November 19, 2020
Sotera Expects IPO To Yield $1.1B
Sotera Health Company today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 46,600,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $23.00 per share...
By Adam Burroughs
November 19, 2020
Medsphere Systems Corp. Acquires Micro-Office Systems
Medsphere Systems Corporation tis acquiring Micro-Office Systems, which will retain the Micro-Office Systems name with the added modifier, “A Division of Medsphere.”...
By Adam Burroughs
November 18, 2020
Great Day Improvements Acquires Apex Energy Solutions
Great Day Improvements, LLC has acquired Apex Energy Solutions. The 20-year old Indianapolis, IN based company has 19 metropolitan area locations nationwide....
By Adam Burroughs
November 17, 2020
The Hattenbach Co. Acquired By Climate Pros
The acquisition of Hattenbach by Climate Pros adds two new branch locations to Climate Pros' network and provides an immediate, sizable presence in Northeast Ohio....
By Adam Burroughs
November 16, 2020
b. a. Sweetie Candy Company acquires Campbell’s Sweet Factory
b.a. Sweetie Candy company, a Cleveland Ohio based wholesale distributor has acquired Campbell’s Sweet Factory, a popcorn and sweets manufacturer....
By Adam Burroughs
November 16, 2020
Zanite Acquisition Corp. Prices IPO at $200M
Zanite Acquisition Corp. has priced its initial public offering of 20,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit....
By Adam Burroughs
November 10, 2020
Trailhead Biosystems Raises $6.6 Million
Trailhead Biosystems Inc., a biotechnology company has received a $6.6 million Series A financing round....
By Adam Burroughs
November 10, 2020
RxVantage Acquires onPoint Oncology
RxVantage has acquired onPoint Oncology, an oncology reimbursement data and analytics company....
By Adam Burroughs
November 5, 2020
Keep calm: Stewart Kohl on pandemic-induced M&A uncertainty
The Riverside Co. co-CEO discusses portfolio company performance, Riverside’s M.O. as it navigates through the choppy M&A market, his sense of where the collective heads of buyers and sellers are at the moment, and more....
By Adam Burroughs
November 4, 2020
SRS Distribution acquires C.C. Supply
The addition of C.C. Supply represents a strategic opportunity for SRS Distribution to expand its presence in an existing market, while gaining a new customer base....
By Adam Burroughs
November 3, 2020
Barrette Outdoor Living gets investment from TorQuest Partners, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
TorQuest Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec have made a majority investment in Barrette Outdoor Living Inc., a Middleburg Heights manufacturer of wood-alternative fence and railing products....
By Adam Burroughs
November 3, 2020
Sweeping Corp of America acquired by Warburg Pincus
Sweeping Corp of America is set to be acquired by Warburg Pincus. The private equity firm will acquire the company from the previous investor, Soundcore Capital Partners....
By Adam Burroughs
November 3, 2020
Avon Rubber closes Team Wendy acquisition
The acquisition of Team Wendy, LLC by Avon Rubber p.l.c. is now closed....
By Adam Burroughs
October 31, 2020
The Shamrock Companies acquires Cincinnati Print Solutions
The Shamrock Companies, a Northeast Ohio-based marketing, technology and project management solutions provider, has acquired Cincinnati Print Solutions....
By Adam Burroughs
October 29, 2020
Cyprium Partners completes subordinated debt investment in Kustom US
Cyprium Partners has completed a subordinated debt investment in Kustom US, Inc., to support the acquisition of Zion Restoration Inc. and provide capital for future acquisitions....
By Adam Burroughs
October 29, 2020
MRI Software Acquires Jenark from CoreLogic
MRI Software, a global leader in real estate technology, has acquired residential property management software Jenark from CoreLogic, Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
October 28, 2020
Shiloh Industries proceeds with sale to Grouper Holdings
Shiloh Industries, Inc. is moving forward under the previously announced asset purchase agreement with Grouper Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of MiddleGround Capital LLC, which will acquire substantially all of the company’s assets....
By Adam Burroughs
October 28, 2020
Riverside invests in Starfire Systems
The Riverside Company has invested in Milwaukee-based Starfire Systems, Inc., and Starfire Extinguisher, Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
October 26, 2020
The J.M. Smucker Co. sells its Crisco Business to B&G Foods
The J.M. Smucker Co. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Crisco® oils and shortening business to B&G Foods, Inc. in a cash transaction valued at approximately $550 million....
By Adam Burroughs
October 23, 2020
Chris Adams on how the pandemic, presidential election are affecting M&A
Park Place Technologies Chris Adams offers his sense of what’s likely to be on the minds of dealmakers through the balance of a year plagued by uncertainty....
By Adam Burroughs
October 22, 2020
Hyland completes acquisition of Alfresco
Hyland has completed its acquisition of Alfresco, a content services platform and solutions provider....
By Adam Burroughs
October 22, 2020
The Riverside Co. invests in Geroline
The Riverside Company has invested in Geroline Inc., a virtual manufacturer of footwear traction aids serving diverse industrial end-markets in Canada and the United States....
By Adam Burroughs