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January 7, 2022
Stay ready: the benefit of a perpetual data room
Cloudbreak's Andy Panos, along with U.S. Bank's Steve Bennett, Nottingham Spirk's Katherine Hill Ritchie and Armada Waste Ohio's Robert Smith on staying prepared for a transaction....
By Adam Burroughs
January 1, 2022
VIUM Capital Acquires Armstrong Mortgage Company
Seniors housing and healthcare lender VIUM Capital has acquired long-time multifamily lender Armstrong Mortgage Company....
By Adam Burroughs
December 29, 2021
Fenix Parts Completes All Foreign Used Auto Parts Acquisition
Fenix Parent LLC, operating as Fenix Parts, has completed its acquisition of the assets of All Foreign Used Auto Parts, Inc. in Columbus....
By Adam Burroughs
December 21, 2021
Covail Acquired by GoSecure
GoSecure, a provider of Managed Detection and Response services, has acquired Covail...
By Adam Burroughs
December 20, 2021
Hexion Holdings to be Acquired by American Securities
Hexion Holdings Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of American Securities LLC for $30 per share in cash. ...
By Adam Burroughs
December 7, 2021
Wrench Group Acquires Buckeye Heating & Cooling
Wrench Group, LLC, a home services company, has acquired Buckeye Heating & Cooling, an air conditioning and heating services company in the Columbus area....
By Adam Burroughs
December 6, 2021
DW Healthcare Partners Sells WillowWood to Blue Sea Capital
DW Healthcare Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, has closed its sale of WillowWood Global LLC to Blue Sea Capital....
By Adam Burroughs
December 1, 2021
Blackstone to Acquire Irth Solutions
Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced that Blackstone Energy Partners has agreed to acquire Irth Solutions....
By Adam Burroughs
November 12, 2021
Drafting Your Acquisition Playbook
HBD Industries Tom Pozda, along with The Huntington National Bank’s Mark Slayman, Salon Lofts’ Chris Greenfelder, Copper Run’s Andrew Hays and Huntington’s Chad Lowe, offer tips an insights on how to prepare for buy-side transactions....
By Adam Burroughs
November 9, 2021
Directions To Acquire Aimpoint Research
Directions has finalized an agreement under which Directions will acquire Aimpoint Research....
By Adam Burroughs
November 4, 2021
Eliassen Group Acquires Lightwell
Eliassen Group, LLC, a strategic consulting and talent solutions firm, has acquired Lightwell Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
November 3, 2021
Aver Raises $58M Investment
Aver, Inc. received a $58-plus million investment led by Cox Enterprises and with participation from other existing investors to accelerate the scale and deployment of its new Enlace Health brand. ...
By Adam Burroughs
October 27, 2021
OpenExchange To Acquire Veracast Communications
OpenExchange Inc., a leading provider of video-enabled virtual event solutions, intends to acquire Veracast Communications, Inc....
By Adam Burroughs
October 26, 2021
HDS Companies Acquires Allita 360
HDS Companies, a provider of affordable housing software and services to U.S.-based HFAs, has acquired Allita 360....
By Adam Burroughs
September 30, 2021
Capital velocity trend predicated on speed, volume
Talisman Capital Partners' Matt Bennett and Root's Kumi Walker, along with Tri-W Group's Paige McCarthy and Ice Miller LLP's Chris Michael explore new and emerging perspectives in M&A....
By Adam Burroughs
September 30, 2021
Priority One Canine Acquires Bio Detection K9
Priority One Canine is entering into a joint venture with French biotechnology company Neovacs...
By Adam Burroughs
September 24, 2021
Lenders Service Corporation Joins Unitas Financial Services
Lenders Service Corporation is merging with Unitas Financial Services....
By Adam Burroughs
September 22, 2021
UnifiHealth Secures $5.4M Seed Financing
UnifiHealth, a health plan for small businesses, has raised $5.4M in Seed Financing led by Anthemis with participation from Echelon Capital, Flare Capital, Digitalis Ventures and Great Oaks VC. ...
By Adam Burroughs
September 9, 2021
KKR Invests $40M in Jet Edge International
KKR, a global investment firm, has agreed to invest $40 million in preferred equity in Jet Edge International...
By Adam Burroughs
September 8, 2021
Vertiv to Acquire the E&I Engineering Group
Vertiv Holdings Co has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire E&I Engineering Ireland Limited and its affiliate, Powerbar Gulf LLC...
By Adam Burroughs
September 3, 2021
Will Zell sees exuberance in venture capital
Will Zell, founder of Zell Capital and Executive Chairman at Nikola Labs, offers his take on the view from the early stage....
By Adam Burroughs
August 31, 2021
Horizon Acquires Consolidated Cooperative's Commercial Fiber Business
Horizon has acquired Consolidated Cooperative's commercial fiber business to expand its Midwest footprint....
By Adam Burroughs
August 25, 2021
Safecor Health Recapitalized By Vesey Street Capital Partners
Vesey Street Capital Partners, LLC, a New York-based healthcare services private equity firm, announced that funds managed by VSCP have completed a recapitalization of Safecor Health. ...
By Adam Burroughs
August 11, 2021
Infostretch Acquires Gathi Analytics
Infostretch, a leader in digital engineering services, has acquired Gathi Analytics, LLC...
By Adam Burroughs
August 11, 2021
Carvana To Invest $126M In Root Inc.
Carvana will invest approximately $126 million in Root, Inc., subject to customary regulatory approvals....
By Adam Burroughs
August 6, 2021
Not all CEOs are enthralled by the red-hot M&A market
Vistage Columbus Chair Perry Maughmer spoke on the Smart Business Dealmakers Podcast about the CEO mindset in a time of incredible M&A activity....
By Adam Burroughs
August 4, 2021
Array To Merge with The Gnoêsis Group
Array, a litigation support partner, has merged with The Gnoêsis Group. The combined company will operate under Array's existing name, branding and website. ...
By Adam Burroughs
August 4, 2021
reAlpha Gets $6M investment from Crawford Hoying
reAlpha, a tech-powered real estate investment company, has closed on a $6 Million investment round....
By Adam Burroughs
July 21, 2021
Path Robotics Gets $100M Investment
Path Robotics has raised a $100 million Series C round....
By Adam Burroughs
July 21, 2021
Datacor Acquires INFONETICS
Datacor, Inc., a provider of process manufacturing and chemical distribution software, has acquired INFONETICS....
By Adam Burroughs
July 15, 2021
Jushi Holdings Closes OhiGrow Acquisition
Jushi Holdings Inc. has closed its previously announced acquisition of OhiGrow LLC...
By Adam Burroughs
July 9, 2021
Women and the unique challenges they face in their entrepreneurial pursuits
Linda Pringle Evans, CEO and Founder of Pringle Business Consulting, and the Director of Education at Empowering a Billion Women, discusses the state of female entrepreneurship in the U.S. ...
By Adam Burroughs
July 1, 2021
Togetherwork Acquires Acceptd
Togetherwork, the leader in integrated software and payments for managing communities, groups, and organizations, has acquired Acceptd, the premier application and audition platform for the arts....
By Adam Burroughs
July 1, 2021
Hybrid Apparel Acquires Air Waves
Hybrid Apparel has completed its acquisition of Air Waves, a market leading design and technology driven print-on-demand provider serving e-commerce and wholesale customers....
By Adam Burroughs
July 1, 2021
Numotion Acquires SpinLife
Numotion, the nation's largest provider of products and services that provide mobility, health and personal independence, has acquired SpinLife.com the market leader in online retail Durable Medical Equipment for the aging population as well as people living with disabilities. ...
By Adam Burroughs
July 1, 2021
Olive Closes $400M Round
Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, has closed a $400 million funding round, bringing the company to a $4 billion valuation....
By Adam Burroughs
June 11, 2021
Josh Curtis on what M&A’s busiest year means for sellers
Josh Curtis, managing director of Footprint Capital, offers his view of the market from both the sell-side and buy-side, as well as his sense of how things could play out for the balance of the year....
By Adam Burroughs
June 9, 2021
Huntington Completes Merger With TCF
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated has closed its merger with TCF Financial Corporation, creating a Top 25 U.S. bank holding company....
By Adam Burroughs
June 9, 2021
Branch Insurance Closes $50M Series B
Branch Insurance has closed a $50 million Series B fundraise to fuel its national and partner channel expansion....
By Adam Burroughs
June 3, 2021
Lenox Corporation Acquires Oneida Consumer LLC
Bristol, Pa.-based Lenox Corp., a leading supplier of tabletop, giftware and home entertaining products, has acquired Columbus-based Oneida Consumer. The deal includes all existing Oneida Consumer-branded tabletop products including flatware, dinnerware and cutlery....
By Adam Burroughs
June 1, 2021
Allstate Corp To Acquire SafeAuto
The Allstate Corporation has agreed to acquire SafeAuto...
By Adam Burroughs
May 13, 2021
Cindi Englefield offers sale perspective from both sides of the table
Cindi Englefield shares what she sees from the outside when helping business owners sell their business, as well as insight and advice gained from her sale experience....
By Adam Burroughs
May 11, 2021
L Brands to Spin Off Bath & Body Works, Victoria’s Secret Into Publicly Traded Companies
L Brands, Inc.’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to separate the company into two independent, public companies: Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret....
By Adam Burroughs
May 3, 2021
Path Robotics Raises $56M
Path Robotics, the Columbus-based AI Robotics company responsible for designing the world's first truly autonomous robotic welding system, has received $56 million in Series B funding...
By Adam Burroughs
April 29, 2021
Forge Biologics Closes $120M Series B Round
Forge Biologics, a gene therapy-focused contract development and manufacturing organization, has closed a $120 million Series B financing round....
By Adam Burroughs
April 20, 2021
Sequoia Financial Group and WEALTHSTONE ADVISORS to Merge
Sequoia Financial Group, LLC and WEALTHSTONE ADVISORS have entered into a definitive agreement to merge their businesses....
By Adam Burroughs
March 31, 2021
Tami Longaberger on being on the other side of the investing table
Tami Longaberger talks about her time as an operator informs her approach as an investor, what she’s seeing in the secure data ecosystem space, and the future of the Longaberger Co. brand....
By Adam Burroughs
March 25, 2021
Huntington, TCF Shareholders Approve Merger
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and TCF Financial Corporation have approved the proposed merger of TCF into Huntington....
By Adam Burroughs
March 24, 2021
Discount Drainage Supplies Acquired By Winsupply
Winsupply Inc. has completed the purchase of Discount Drainage Supplies, a waterworks distributor with three locations in Ohio....
By Adam Burroughs
March 17, 2021
Riverside Signs Definitive Agreement to Sell ARCOS
The Riverside Company has signed a definitive agreement with Vista Equity Partners (Vista) to sell ARCOS....
By Adam Burroughs
