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| Acterra Group Marion, IA | Petroleum installation and storage tank manufacturing. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Brass Ring Capital |
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| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed high-yield debt offering |
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| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Eagle Window & Door, Inc. (Dubuque, IA) |
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Louisiana Pacific Windows (OH) |
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces doors and related products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Taylor Door (West Branch, MI) |
| American Consumer Products Mayfield, OH | Distributes keys, knives, gloves, and house numbers to hardware retailers. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Vista 2000 (Roswell, GA) |
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| Atlantic Plywood Corporation Woburn, MA | Distributes industrial wood products and related accessories throughout several metropolitan markets in the Northeastern U.S. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Parksite Inc. (Batavia, IL) |
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| Cardinal Fastener Cleveland, OH | Manufactures hot forged, large diameter fasteners for the bridge and wind energy industries. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Würth Group (Künzelsau, Germany) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Ceramic Matrix West Palm Beach, FL | South and Central Florida’s leading authority in high end luxury natural stone and ceramic tile from Italy, Spain, and around the world. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Architectural Surfaces, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) |
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| ChromaScape, Inc. Twinsburg, OH | Produces and distributes color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Provides value-added processing and distribution of dyes and specialty chemicals to the textile, paper and other specialty industries. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Greenville Colorants (Greenville, SC) |
| ChromaScape, Inc. Twinsburg, OH | Produces and distributes color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Capital Partners (Norwalk, CT) |
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| Cleason Companies Newark, NY | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Newark, NY) |
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| Coldwater Veneer Coldwater, MI | Produces American hardwood veneer. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Industrial Opportunity Partners (Evanston, IL) |
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| Craftmaster Hardware, LLC Northvale, NJ | Leading wholesale distributor of commercial repair and replacement door hardware to institutional end users through North America. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to KENDALL (Mendota Heights, MN) a portfolio company of Keystone Capital (Chicago, IL) |
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| E.R. Jahna Lake Whales, FL | Produces sand and gravel. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in financing |
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| Empire Crane Company, LLC Syracuse, NY | Provides sales, parts and attachments, and service to the commercial crane market principally in the Northeast United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. (San Leandro, CA) |
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| Ennstone Falmouth, VA | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| Ennstone Falmouth, VA (Pennsylvania Assets) | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lindy Paving (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides colors and pigments including automotive products, container and tableware products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Ferer Dis Ticaret Ve Kimyasallar Anonim Sirketi A.S. (Istanbul and Kutahya, Turkey) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Produces waterborne industrial paints with a focus on organic paints for glass substrates application. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Pinturas Benicarló, S.L. (Castellón, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Supplies ceramic coatings to high-end tile manufacturers. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vetriceramici (Casola Valsenio, Italy) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides an extensive line of inorganic pigments. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Nubiola Pigmentos (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides laser marking technology for use on ceramics, plastics, metals, glass, and other hard surfaces. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired TherMark Holdings, Inc. (Irvine, CA) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH Fluid Logic Portland, OR | Provides fluids used in the production of electronic components based on ceramic and quartz substrates, and advanced polishing fluids used for flat glass, precision optics, ophthalmic lenses, and specialty plastics. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to LaPel Solutions (Vancouver, WA) |
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| Flame Control Coatings, LLC Niagara Falls, NY | Manufactures fire retardant, heat resistant, and specialty coatings. Its brands include Flame Control and TemperKote. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Netherlands) |
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| Global Security Glazing Selma, AL | Designs and manufactures institutional security and custom architectural glass and glazing products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Grey Mountain Partners (Boulder, CO) |
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| Herman Miller Zeeland, MI | Designs and manufactures home, office, and healthcare furnishings and provides related services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering |
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| Highland International Boone, NC | Formulates heat resistant and corrosion protection coatings with expertise in high-temperature coatings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Netherlands) |
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| HON Industries Muscatine, IA | Manufactures and markets business furniture, work space accessories, and fireplaces. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed secondary offering |
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| Mason Structural Steel, LLC Walton Hills, OH | Provides home lifestyle and building products to Ohio and the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mason Steel Holdings, LLC (Walton Hills, OH) |
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| R.W. Sidley, Inc. Painesville, OH | Manufactures and supplies bulk aggregates, industrial minerals, ready-mix concrete, masonry block products, structural and architectural precast components, and building supplies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt recapitalized by Wingspire Capital (Alpharetta, GA) |
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| Reynolds Orleans, IN | Supplies products and services to the water and wastewater industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Layne Christiansen (Kansas City, KS) |
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| Scott Fetzer Westlake, OH | Manufactures and markets products for the home, family, and industry. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| SMED International Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Manufactures modular office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| SolarFlex Youngstown, OH | A solar products and services company. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Hanwha Solutions |
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| SOSS® Door Hardware Pioneer, OH | Designs and manufactures concealed door hardware | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Schlage Lock Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allegion plc (Dublin, IRL) |
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| Steelcase Grand Rapids, MI | Markets and sells office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Assist Wege family in IPO |
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| Victor Insulators Victor, NY | Manufactures electrical components. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
Business & Industrial Services
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| ABCO Cleveland, OH | Provides fire safety and security inspection, maintenance, and repair services for thousands of commercial customers in a variety of end markets. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Merged with ISA Fire and Security (Louisville, KY), a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners (Beachwood, OH) |
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| Achill Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides janitorial services primarily for the movie theater industry. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Tri-County Maintenance (Cleveland, OH) |
| Acterra Group Marion, IA | Petroleum installation and storage tank manufacturing. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Brass Ring Capital |
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| AirNet Systems Columbus, OH Jetride Subsidiary Columbus, OH | Provides passenger charter services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Pinnacle Air (Bentonville, AR) |
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| AirNet Systems Columbus, OH | Provides time-critical transportation services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| Alliance Solutions Group, LLC | Provides highly specialized, relationship-oriented staffing and recruitment solutions to a wide range of niche industries. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| All Pro Plumbing Ontario. CA | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) |
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| Arco Comfort Air® Plumbing & HVAC Cleveland, OH | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) |
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| Auburn Armature Auburn, NY | Provides electric motor repair services and is a wholesale distributor of electrical and related products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to AAI Acquisition, a subsidiary of Power Flo Technologies in Chapter 11 (New Hyde Park, NY) |
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| AvTech Laboratories Portage, MI | Provides analytical contract research organization services to the pharmaceutical industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Eurofins Scientific (Nantes, France) |
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| BHS Charlotte, NC | Distributes fire and safety products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) |
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| Broadview Instrumentation Services, Inc. Valley View, OH | Provides instrumentation services to diverse end markets, offering in-house and on-site accredited calibrations, repair services, and program management. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Trescal, a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity (Toronto, Canada) |
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| Brooks Equipment Charlotte, NC | Distributes fire and safety products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) |
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| Buffalo Construction Louisville, KY | Builds and remodels restaurants primarily for Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Louisville, KY) |
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| Butler HVAC, Inc. Dayton, OH | Provides full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installation and repair. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to a group of private investors |
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| Century Equipment Toledo, OH | Provides quality products, customer care, and service to home owners, golf courses, landscaping contractors, sports fields, governmental entities, and commercial and industrial organizations. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jerry Pate Company (Pensacola, FL) |
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| Ceramic Matrix West Palm Beach, FL | South and Central Florida’s leading authority in high end luxury natural stone and ceramic tile from Italy, Spain, and around the world. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Architectural Surfaces, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) |
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| ChemPower Akron, OH | Provides manufacturing, construction, and environmental services for the power generation industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to American Eco (Houston, TX) |
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| Childers Air, Plumbing & Electric Beckley, WV | Provides plumbing, hvac and electrical services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Service Country a portfolio company of Grove Mountain Partners. |
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| Chili Plastics Rochester, NY | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Climate Solutions Austin, TX | Provides commercial HVAC and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sold to Pueblo Mechanical (Phoenix, AZ), a portfolio company of Huron Capital (Detroit, MI) | |
| Collaborative Clinical Research Cleveland, OH | Conducts clinical research. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Complient Cleveland, OH | Provides automated external defibrillators (AED) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and AED program management. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement with multiple investors |
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| Continental Building Systems Columbus, OH | Provides commercial building services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| CPI Holdings Rochester, NY | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Complemar Partners (Rochester, NY) |
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| CPI Holdings Rochester, NY | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Provides manufacturing, packaging and fulfillment services. | Type: M&A Acquisition Details: Financial advisor in acquisition of DeRidder (Rochester, NY) |
| DG Lift Station | Provides lift station services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Southern Home Services, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors (Maitland, FL) |
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| Dantom Systems Wixom, MI | Provides professional credit and collection letter formats, forms, and envelopes for first-class USPS mail delivery. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Bolder Capital (Chicago, IL) |
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| David Gray St. Augustine, FL | Electrical, plumbing, heating, & air services | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Southern Home Services, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors (Maitland, FL) |
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| Dean’s Home Services Minneapolis, MN | Provides heating, AC, plumbing & electrical services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Redwood Services (Memphis, TN) |
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| Elgin National Industries Downers Grove, IL | Designs, engineers, procures, and constructs bulk material handling and processing systems for the power and mining industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to GFI Energy Ventures (Los Angeles, CA) |
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| Empire Crane Company, LLC Syracuse, NY | Provides sales, parts and attachments, and service to the commercial crane market principally in the Northeast United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. (San Leandro, CA) |
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| EmployOn Cleveland, OH | Provides online employment services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to GetTheJob (Bentonville, AR) |
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| Evolution Ag, LLC Columbus, OH | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Certain Locations to Farmers Equipment (OH) |
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| Evolution Ag, LLC Columbus, OH | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Certain Locations to Bane-Welker Equipment (OH) |
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| Extrusions, Inc. HartFord, CT | A leading company specializing in the manufacturing and supply of high-quality aluminum extrusions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Northern States Metals (Youngstown, OH) |
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| Fetch-A-Tech Las Vegas, NV | Provides heating, air conditioning, and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Service Champions, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners (New York, NY) |
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| Harrington Holdings a.k.a. Edgepark Surgical Twinsburg, OH | Markets and distributes healthcare products to managed care beneficiaries, home care supply providers, and healthcare professionals. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to The Jordan Company (New York, NY) |
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| Heritage Partners Oceanside, CA | Distributes electrical products. | Provides electrical and industrial distribution services to commercial, residential, utility, contractor and industrial markets. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired OneSource Distributors (Oceanside, CA) |
| Hero Plumbing, Heating, Cooling, Drains, Ducts & Electrical Minnesota | Provides plumbing, heating, cooling, drains, ducts and electrical services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) |
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| Hi TecMetal Group Cleveland, OH York Division Charleston, SC | Supplies brazing, thermal processing, and welding services and products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to IMT York and IMT Duncan (York, SC) |
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| Hotwork Combustion Services Lexington, KY | Provides industrial combustion services, including heat-ups, dry-outs, and cooldowns on all types of refractory-lined structures. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to TGC Acquisition (Philadelphia, PA) |
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| HTG Cleveland, OH | Provides brazing, thermal processing and welding services for automotive, aerospace, food, fluid power and other industries. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring with Capital Works |
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| Interfuse Manufacturing Clarence, PA | Provides quality fabricated, welded and machined parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Renew Manufacturing |
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| International Total Service Cleveland, OH | Provides airports and other public facilities with security services, security equipment, and support staff. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed IPO |
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| Itochu Tokyo, Japan | Engages in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products including textiles and machinery. | Type: M&A, Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| Jasco International Rochester, NY | Provides professional photographic printing services. | Provides professional photo/imaging lab services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Burrell Professional Labs, an Eastman Kodak Company (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Jobs.ch Zurich, Switzerland | Provides online employment services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Tiger Global Management (New York, NY) |
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| Kelly Services Troy, MI | Provides global workforce solutions, including outsourcing, consulting, and staffing services. | Provides employment services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired ProStaff (Milwaukee, WI) |
| Lakeside Scrap Metals, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals including steel, copper, brass, and aluminum. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt refinancing |
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| Lighthouse Insurance Group, LLC Independence, OH | Offers health insurance products, Medicare plans and advisory solutions to families and individuals throughout the United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Rolling Meadows, IL) |
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| Markets and Markets Pune, India | Provides quantified B2B research on high growth emerging opportunities/threats to a worldwide customer base. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| Mason Structural Steel, LLC Walton Hills, OH | Provides home lifestyle and building products to Ohio and the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mason Steel Holdings, LLC (Walton Hills, OH) |
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| MCR Rochester, NY | Provides non-ferrous processing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Copper & Brass Sales, a division of Thyssenkrupp Materials NA (Southfield, MI) |
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| MCR Rochester, NY | Provides non-ferrous processing services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Miami Valley Steel Service Piqua, OH | Provides steel processing services and distributes finished products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Esmark (Chicago, IL) |
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| Mid-America Consulting Group, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Provides information technology management consulting. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt capital raise (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Nuclear Security Services Willowbrook, IL | Provides security solutions, including alarm and video assessment systems for the nuclear industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to G4S (Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom) |
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| Ohio Blow Pipe Cleveland, OH | Provides premier recycling, environmental, and health/safety material handling solutions provider to various markets in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to CapitalWorks (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Optical Dynamics Louisville, KY | Develops Cast RX digital lens technologies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Palladian Health, LLC West Seneca, NY | Leading technology-enabled provider of outsourced musculoskeletal care and pain management services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to eviCore healthcare, LLC (Bluffton, SC) |
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| Park North Capital Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides decorative plating solutions to healthcare and other industries. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired a controlling interest in Woodhill Plating Company (Cleveland, OH) |
| Paul W. Essig, Inc. Reading, PA | Provides full service residential plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to P1 Service Group, a portfolio company of River Sea Network and Edgewater Funds (Chicago, IL) |
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| Peoplescape.com San Diego, CA | Provides software enabled human resource consulting services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Rebmann Albertson, NY | Provides plumbing, heating, and air conditioning services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners (New York, NY) |
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| Reynolds Orleans, IN | Supplies products and services to the water and wastewater industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Layne Christiansen (Kansas City, KS) |
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| Roden Electrical Knoxville, TN | Distributes electrical products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kendall Electric (Portage, MI) |
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| RWC, Inc. | Provides railroad weed, grass and brush control | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ferrovia, a portfolio company of Auxo Investment Partners. |
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| Safeguard Properties Cleveland, OH | Protects and preserves distressed residential properties through a nationwide subcontractor network. | Inspects and maintains defaulted and REO properties. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Bank of America Field Services (Dallas, TX) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired A New Look Lawn Care (Melbourne, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides commercial landscape maintenance services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired GreenLeaf Landscaping & Irrigation and M&M Professional Grounds Maintenance (Melbourne, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides commercial landscape maintenance and irrigation services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired R&D Landscape & Irrigation (Jacksonville, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Lawn Techs (Melbourne, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services including tree removal, lawn irrigation installation and edging. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vexacor Turf Management (Jacksonville, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides full-service landscape, irrigation and landscape construction services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Down to Earth (Multiple locations throughout Florida) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Florida Evergreen (Naples, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Gulf Breeze Landscaping (Naples, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired GreenPro Landscape (Sarasota, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vivicon (Tampa, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscape services including lawn maintenance, irrigation, pest control and fertilization. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Cintron Lawn Maintenance (Napes, FL) |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle-market businesses. | Provides landscape services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired L&R Landscape (Jacksonville, FL) |
| Signature Inns Indianapolis, IN | Owns and operates hotels. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jameson Inns (Nashville, TN) |
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| Signature Inns Indianapolis, IN | Owns and operates hotels. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed Preferred Stock Offering |
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| SMR Holdings, LLC Statesville, NC | Provides an array of software-driven solutions, including data destruction, decommissioning, redeployment, remarketing and recycling. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to New Capital Partners (Birmingham, AL) |
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| Solar Flex Rack Youngstown, OH | A solar products and services company. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Hanwha Solutions |
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| SOSS® Door Hardware Pioneer, OH | Designs and manufactures concealed door hardware. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Schlage Lock Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allegion plc (Dublin, IRL) |
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| Specialty Air Technologies, Inc. Long Beach, CA | Blends and packages “high-end” pure gases and mixtures for several growing niche markets in North America, Latin America, and Asia. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Tech Air (Danbury, CT) |
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| Sudbury Cleveland, OH South Coast Terminals, Inc. Subsidiary Houston, TX | Provides storage and processing services for the oil and chemical industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to KMCO (Crosby, TX) |
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| Superior Specialty Gas Services, Inc. Tulsa, OK | Distributes specialty gas mixtures for the North American hydrocarbon market. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Airgas USA (Radnor, PA) |
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| The Freedonia Group, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Leading technology-enabled provider of branded market research to the global marketplace. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to MarketResearch.com (Rockville, MD) |
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| T-Mark Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Sila Services a portfolio company of Morgan Stanley (Buffalo, NY) |
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| TPC Metals, Inc. Newark, NJ | Operates as a metal service center and provides tin mill, light gauge cold rolled, galvanized, and aluminum products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lakeside Metals (Willowbrook, IL) |
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| Tyden Group Grand Rapids, MI | Provides cargo security and product identification traceability solutions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Crimson Investment (Palo Alto, CA) |
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| W.F. Hann & Sons Warrensville Heights, OH | A heating, air conditioning, and plumbing provider. | Type:M&A Sale Details: Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners |
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| Zengine Fremont, CA | Provides e-business software and services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to MCSi (Dayton, OH) |
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| Zephyr Solutions, Inc. Avon Lake, OH | Provides logistics and supply chain management of industrial gases serving retail and industrial customers throughout North America. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Aterian Investment Partners (New York, NY) |
Consumer Products & Services
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| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Reseller of contact lenses | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Lens Express and Lens 1st | |
| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO | ||
| 72 Degrees Fredericksburg, TX | Provides heating and cooling services. | “Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Radiant (Austin, TX), a portfolio company of The Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH)” | ||
| Acterra Group Marion, IA | Petroleum installation and storage tank manufacturing. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Brass Ring Capital | ||
| All Pro Plumbing Ontario. CA | Provides plumbing and HVAC. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| All Wound Up Cleveland, OH | Retails and markets interactive toys and novelty merchandise. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Borders Group (Ann Arbor, MI) | ||
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Eagle Window & Door, Inc. (Dubuque, IA) | |
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Louisiana Pacific Windows (OH) | |
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces doors and related product. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Taylor Door (West Branch, MI) | |
| American Consumer Products Mayfield, OH | Distributes keys, knives, gloves, and house numbers to hardware retailers. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Vista 2000 (Roswell, GA) | ||
| American Consumer Products Mayfield, OH Sharon Fastener Subsidiary Milford, MA | Distributes fasteners to hardware retailers. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Pawtucket Fasteners LP (Pawtucket, RI) | ||
| American Greetings Brooklyn, OH | Designs, manufactures, markets, and sells seasonal and everyday greeting cards and other social expression products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering | ||
| Applica Consumer Products (formerly Windmere Durable Holdings) Miramar, FL | Designs, markets, and distributes small kitchen appliances and beauty products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold its 50% interest in Salton-Maxim to the other 50% owners of Salton-Maxim | ||
| The Armstrong Group Atlanta, GA | Diversified family holding company with operating companies in the cable, telecommunications, security, real estate development, electronics, manufacturing, and HVAC & plumbing services markets. | Provides full-service residential plumbing solutions, including drain cleaning, main line clog removal, sewer backups and repairs, sewer lining, water heating, water line, and sump pump services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquisition of Matt Mertz Plumbing (Pittsburgh, PA) | |
| Art Works Baltimore, MD | Sells art and posters. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Hadley House (Minneapolis, MN) | ||
| Baldwin Piano Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures and distributes musical instruments. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan | ||
| Bettcher Industries Vermilion, OH Wizard Division Vermillion, OH | Manufactures patented safety gloves. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Wells Lamont (Chicago, IL) | ||
| Brass Eagle Bentonville, AR | Manufactures, markets, and distributes paintball and extreme sports products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed IPO | ||
| Buckeye Sports Supply Canton, OH | Distributes outdoor sporting goods, primarily for hunting and fishing. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Acusport (Bellefontaine, OH) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding | ||
| Buffalo Construction Louisville, KY | Builds and remodels restaurants primarily for Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Louisville, KY) | ||
| Buffalo Wild Wings Minneapolis, MN | Owns, operates, and franchises restaurants. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement with Gemini and Investors | ||
| Butler HVAC, Inc. Dayton, OH | Provides full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installation and repair. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to a group of private investors | ||
| Campbell Hausfeld Harrison, OH | Manufactures consumer, industrial, and commercial grade air compressors and related products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory | ||
| Century Foods International LaCrosse, WI | Designs, processes, and distributes whey protein products for the sports nutrition industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Hormel Foods (Austin, MN) | ||
| Ceramic Matrix West Palm Beach, FL | South and Central Florida’s leading authority in high end luxury natural stones and ceramic tile from Italy, Spain, and around the world. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Architectural Services, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) | ||
| Cleveland Indians Cleveland, OH | Professional baseball team. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Dolan Family (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| Cleveland Indians Cleveland, OH | Professional baseball team. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO | ||
| Cleveland Lumberjacks Cleveland, OH | Professional hockey team. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Hank Kassigkeit (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan | ||
| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed follow-on offering | ||
| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed high-yield debt offering | ||
| Consolidated Stores Columbus, OH | Operates as a value-specialty retailer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed follow-on offering | ||
| Cumberland Gap Middlesboro, KY | Produces hams, sausages, and other specialty packaged meats. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Smithfield Foods (Smithfield, VA) | ||
| DataServ Westlake, OH | Provides unique, cutting-edge IT solutions and services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Renovus Capital (Wayne, PA) | ||
| Direct Focus (nka: Nautilus) Vancouver, WA | Markets fitness and healthy lifestyle products. | Specializes in the design and production of fitness equipment for commercial, light commercial, and home use. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquisition of StairMaster Sports/Medical (Kirkland, WA) | |
| D’Lisi Food Systems Rochester, NY | Manufactures prepared food products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement | ||
| Dots Cleveland, OH | Sells extreme value fashion apparel and accessories for women. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Redemption of 49% shareholder | ||
| Dots Cleveland, OH | Sells extreme value fashion apparel and accessories for women. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Irving Place Capital | ||
| Dots Cleveland, OH | Sells extreme value fashion apparel and accessories for women. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to William Blair Capital Partners and Sawdust (Chicago, IL) | ||
| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH Bee-Gee Shoe Subsidiary Dayton, OH | Shoe retailer. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jam Shoe Concepts (Dayton, OH) | ||
| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO | ||
| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Operates chain of department stores. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Stone & Thomas (Wheeling, WV) | |
| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Chapter 11 reorganization | ||
| Evolution Ag, LLC Columbus, OH | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Certain Locations to Farmers Equipment (OH) | ||
| Evolution Ag, LLC Columbus, OH | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Certain Locations to Bane-Welker Equipment (OH) | ||
| F. Schumacher New York, NY Waverly Home Fashions Division New York, NY | Offers fabrics, wallpaper, and a multitude of coordinated home fashions under the Waverly home furnishings brand. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ellery Homestyles (New York, NY) | ||
| Fetch-A-Tech Las Vegas, NV | Provides heating, air conditioning, and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Service Champions, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners (New York, NY) | ||
| Flight Fit N Fun, LLC Sterling, VA | Operates multi-attraction family entertainment facilities. | Type: Financial Advisory Detail: Growth investment from Summit Partners (Boston, MA) | ||
| Flour City Bagels Rochester, NY | Operates as a franchisee of Bruegger’s Bagels. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement | ||
| FTD Downers Grove, IL | Provides floral and specialty gift products and services to consumers and retail florists. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review | ||
| Glendale Parade Store San Antonio, TX | A ceremonial products distributor. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Clotho Holdings | ||
| Harry London Candies North Canton, OH | Produces high quality chocolates, mints, buckeyes, and joys. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt and equity restructuring | ||
| Herman Miller Zeeland, MI | Designs and manufactures home, office, and healthcare furnishings and provides related services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering | ||
| Hero Plumbing, Heating, Cooling, Drains, Ducts & Electrical Minnesota | Provides plumbing, heating, cooling, drains, ducts and electrical services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| High Liner Foods Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | Processes branded and private label frozen foods. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review | ||
| Homeloan.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled home loan information and services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement | ||
| HON Industries Muscatine, IA | Manufactures and markets business furniture, work space accessories, and fireplaces. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed secondary offering | ||
| Horizon Organic Boulder, CO Dairy Assets | Processes and markets branded organic milk and other dairy products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Dean Foods (Dallas, TX) | ||
| I&K Distributors Delphos, OH | Manufactures, sells, and distributes branded and private label potato salads and other foods. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to SCIS Food Services, nka Chef Solutions (Wheeling, IL) | ||
| Intellitecs Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures women’s hygiene products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement | ||
| Jo-Ann Stores Hudson, OH | Operates as a specialty fabric and craft retailer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement | ||
| Jo-Ann Stores Hudson, OH | Operates as a specialty fabric and craft retailer. | Operates retail fabric stores. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired House of Fabrics (Los Angeles, CA) | |
| Johnson Oil Company Bloomington, IN | Owns and operates convenience stores that offer gasoline and grocery products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Couche-Tard (Laval, Quebec, Canada) | ||
| The Kirby Company Cleveland, OH, a division of The Scott Fetzer Company Westlake, OH | Manufactures vacuum cleaners and home cleaning accessories. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Right Lane Capital LLC (Chicago, IL) | ||
| L.L.Bean Freeport, ME | Markets outdoor and leisure apparel and accessories via catalogues and website. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt private placement | ||
| Lancaster Colony Columbus, OH Indiana Glass Company and E.O. Brody Company Divisions Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures tabletop and decorative glassware containers for the retail, private label, candle, and floral markets. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Monomoy Capital Partners (New York, NY) | ||
| Len The Plumber, LLC Baltimore, MD | Provides full-service residential plumbing solutions, including drain cleaning, main line clog removal, sewer backups and repairs, sewer line, water heater, heating system, water line, gas line, and sump pump services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Thompson Street Capital Partners (St. Louis, MO) | ||
| Lighthouse Insurance Group, LLC Independence, OH | Offers health insurance products, Medicare plans and advisory solutions to families and individuals throughout the United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Rolling Meadows, IL) | ||
| Mainstream Electric, Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing Spokane Valley, WA | Provides residential HVAC installation and repair, plumbing, electrical, excavation and drain services in the Greater Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, markets. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| Markets and Markets Pune, India | Provides quantified B2B research on high growth emerging opportunities/threats to a worldwide customer base. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory | ||
| Mason Structural Steel, LLC Walton Hills, OH | Provides home lifestyle and building products to Ohio and the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mason Steel Holdings, LLC (Walton Hills, OH) | ||
| Max & Erma’s Columbus, OH | Owns, operates, and franchises restaurants. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement | ||
| OfficeMax Shaker Heights, OH | Markets and sells office supplies, furniture, and technology. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed follow-on offering | ||
| Penton Media Cleveland, OH | Provides various print and online products, such as targeted publications, websites, exhibitions, email newsletters, trade shows, and data products. | Type: Shareholder Rights Plan | ||
| Ohio Bar Review Cleveland, OH | Provides Ohio Bar training review courses. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Harcourt General (Chestnut Hill, MA) | ||
| Park North Capital, LLC Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides advisory services to individuals looking for health insurance coverage. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired a controlling interest in LIG Solutions (Independence, OH) | |
| Paul W. Essig, Inc. Reading, PA | Provides full service residential plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to P1 Service Group, a portfolio company of River Sea Network and Edgewater Funds (Chicago, IL) | ||
| Penton Media Cleveland, OH | Provides various print and online products, such as targeted publications, websites, exhibitions, email newsletters, trade shows, and data products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan | ||
| Phantom Fireworks Youngstown, OH | Retails and distributes consumer fireworks. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement with Main Street Capital (Houston, TX) | ||
| Progressive Furniture Swanton, OH | Manufactures, imports, and markets moderately-priced household wood furniture. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Sauder Woodworking (Archbold, OH) | ||
| Radiant Plumbing Services, Inc. Austin, TX | Offers premier home plumbing and HVAC service to the greater Austin area. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Riverside Company (New York, NY) | ||
| Rainbow Rentals Canfield, OH | Rents and sells home electronics, furniture, appliances, and computers to the general public. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Rent-A-Center (Plano, TX) | ||
| Rebmann Albertson, NY | Provides plumbing, heating, and air conditioning services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners (New York, NY) | ||
| Regional Diagnostics Cleveland, OH | Operates outpatient diagnostic imaging center chains in the United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Trivest Partners (Coral Gables, FL) | ||
| RevAir, LLC Macedonia, OH | Develops high-tech beauty products including The World’s First and Only Reverse-Air Dryer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Received a significant equity investment from Lykos Capital Partners (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| Rockford-Fosgate Tempe, AZ | Manufactures aftermarket and OEM car audio and in-car entertainment products and accessories, and personal electronics such as earphones. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO | ||
| Royal Appliance Glenwillow, OH | Manufactures and markets handheld and upright floor cleaners and replacement parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Techtronic Industries (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) | ||
| Royal Appliance Glenwillow, OH Telezapper Division Glenwillow, OH | Provides in-home anti-telemarketing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to VTech Holdings (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) | ||
| Sandridge Foods Medina, OH | Manufactures refrigerated prepared foods. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review | ||
| The Scott Fetzer Company Westlake, OH | Manufactures and markets products for the home, family, and industry. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory | ||
| Service Professor, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI | Provides residential plumbing, electrical, heating, cooling, drains, sewer, and duct-cleaning services to West and Southwest Michigan. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Calera Capital (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| SMED International Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Manufactures modular office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO | ||
| Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group New York, NY | Develops, owns, and operates a chain of steakhouse restaurants. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO | ||
| Solar Flex Rack Youngstown, OH | A solar products and services company. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Hanwha Solutions | ||
| SOSS® Door Hardware Pioneer, OH | Designs and manufactures concealed door hardware. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Schlage Lock Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allegion plc (Dublin, IRL) | ||
| Spartan Stores Grand Rapids, MI L.L./Jiroch and J.F. Walker Subsidiaries Grand Rapids, MI | Distributes products to convenience stores. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to H.T. Hackney (Knoxville, TN) | ||
| Spartan Stores Grand Rapids, MI | Sells and distributes groceries. | Operates chain of supermarkets and discount stores in Northwest Ohio. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Seaway Food Town (Maumee, OH) | |
| Steelcase Grand Rapids, MI | Markets and sells office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Assist Wege family in IPO | ||
| Stylin’ Concepts Cleveland, OH | Distributes and sells truck accessories, SUV accessories, and performance parts to consumers. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| SUPERVALU Eden Prairie, MN | Operates as a grocery retailer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering | ||
| SyberSay Technologies San Jose, CA | Provides acoustic technologies for audio clarity. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement | ||
| Tomlinson Cleveland, OH | Manufactures and provides equipment and components for the global food and beverage sector. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Crown Brands, LLC, a portfolio company of Centre Lane Partners (Lincolnshire, IL) | ||
| Universal Electronics Cypress, CA | Designs and develops solutions that enable consumers to control entertainment devices, digital media, and home systems. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan | ||
| Value City Furniture Columbus, OH | Designs, manufactures, sells, and delivers value-priced furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Detals: Co-managed equity offering | ||
| Verne & Ellsworth Hann, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Provides heating, cooling and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Heartland Home Services, Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI) a portfolio company of The Jordan Company (New York, NY) | ||
| Vista Eyecare Lawrenceville, GA | Provides professional eye care services and products to correct and promote optimum visual function and ocular health. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization | ||
| W.F. Hann & Sons Warrensville Heights, OH | A heating, air conditioning, and plumbing provider. | Type:M&A Sale Details: Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners | ||
| Wild Oats Markets Boulder, CO | Owns and operates natural foods supermarkets. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review | ||
| Yonanas Consumer Retail Division of Healthy Foods, LLC Cleveland, OH | Consumer brand that enables consumers to enjoy the taste and feel of soft serve ice cream using only 100% real fruit without fat, dairy, or added sugar | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to The Legacy Companies (Weston, FL) | ||
| Zale Irving, TX | Retail jewelry | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
Financial & Real Estate
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| Achill Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Acts as a FINRA-licensed broker-dealer | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired a controlling interest in SFI Capital Group (Cleveland, OH) |
| Certified Security Solutions, Inc. Independence, OH | Provides information security consulting services and software solutions focused on identity and access management to enterprise clients. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity investment from Plymouth Ventures (Ann Arbor, MI) |
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| CFI Timeshare Mortgage Trust Orlando, FL | Finances timeshare receivables. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt private placement |
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| DDR Beachwood, OH | Develops and owns real estate, principally in shopping centers. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed follow-on offering |
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| Homeloan.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled home loan information and services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Lighthouse Insurance Group, LLC Independence, OH | Offers health insurance products, Medicare plans and advisory solutions to families and individuals throughout the United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Rolling Meadows, IL) |
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| Mutuals.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled financial advisory services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Ohio Innovation Fund Cleveland, OH | Operates as an investment fund for Cleveland Tomorrow. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Park North Capital, LLC Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides advisory services to individuals looking for health insurance coverage. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired a controlling interest in LIG Solutions (Independence, OH) |
| Rainbow Rentals Canfield, OH | Rents and sells home electronics, furniture, appliances, and computers to the general public. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Rent-A-Center (Plano, TX) |
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| Segmint Inc. Akron, OH | Provides disruptive analytics and digital marketing solutions for banks, credit unions, credit card companies, and other financial institutions. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity placement with FIS (Jacksonville, FL) |
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| Signature Inns Indianapolis, IN | Owns and operates hotels. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jameson Inns (Nashville, TN) |
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| Signature Inns Indianapolis, IN | Owns and operates hotels. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed Preferred Stock Offering |
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| Simon Property Group Indianapolis, IN | Owns and invests in over 340 retail properties in more than 40 states and Puerto Rico, and is the largest shopping mall owner in the United States. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
Healthcare
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| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Reseller of contact lenses. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Lens Express and Lens 1st |
| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO |
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| 360 Fresh Palo Alto, CA | Develops innovative clinical analytic solutions for acute and post-acute care providers, accountable care organizations, payors and stakeholders in the healthcare industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to The Advisory Board Company (Washington, DC) |
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| Aeterna Zentaris Inc. Charleston, SC | Develops and commercializes therapeutics and diagnostic tests. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| AvTech Laboratories Portage, MI | Provides analytical contract research organization services to the pharmaceutical industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Eurofins Scientific (Nantes, France) |
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| Broadview Instrumentation Services, Inc. Valley View, OH | Provides instrumentation services to diverse end markets, offering in-house and on-site accredited calibrations, repair services, and program management. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Trescal, a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity (Toronto, Canada) |
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| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed follow-on offering |
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| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed high-yield debt offering |
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| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details Shareholder Rights Plan |
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| Collaborative Clinical Research Cleveland, OH | Conducts clinical research. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Complient Cleveland, OH | Provides automated external defibrillators (AED) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and AED program management. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement with multiple investors |
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| Enovate Canton, MI | Designs, manufactures, and supplies mobile and wall-mounted clinical workstation solutions for the healthcare industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Merged with Stinger Medical (Murfressboro, TN), a portfolio company of Riverside Partners (Boston, MA) |
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| ForTec Medical Streetsboro, OH | Provides on-call mobilization of surgical equipment to hospitals and surgical centers. | Provides medical technology mobilization services, offering surgical lasers, related devices, and technician support to hospitals and surgical centers in Maryland and Virginia. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Falls Church Laser (Falls Church, VA) |
| Gliatech Cleveland, OH | Manufactures surgical adhesion devices and central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Gliatech Cleveland, OH | Manufactures surgical adhesion devices and central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Harrington Holdings a.k.a. Edgepark Surgical Twinsburg, OH | Markets and distributes healthcare products to managed care beneficiaries, home care supply providers, and healthcare professionals. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to The Jordan Company (New York, NY) |
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| Health Imaging Las Vegas, NV | Manufactures radiopharmaceuticals. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| Imalux Corporation Cleveland, OH | Commercializes optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems for site-of-care tissue imaging. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in equity restructuring |
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| Intellitecs Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures women’s hygiene products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Lexi-Comp Inc. Hudson, OH | Synthesizes medical information to provide point of care clinical decision support. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Wolters Kluwer (Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands) |
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| Lighthouse Insurance Group, LLC Independence, OH | Offers health insurance products, Medicare plans and advisory solutions to families and individuals throughout the United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Rolling Meadows, IL) |
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| Optical Dynamics Louisville, KY | Develops Cast RX digital lens technologies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Palladian Health, LLC West Seneca, NY | Leading technology-enabled provider of outsourced musculoskeletal care and pain management services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to eviCore healthcare, LLC (Bluffton, SC) |
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| Park North Capital, LLC Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides advisory services to individuals looking for health insurance coverage. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired a controlling interest in LIG Solutions (Independence, OH) |
| Regional Diagnostics Cleveland, OH | Operates outpatient diagnostic imaging center chains in the United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Trivest Partners (Coral Gables, FL) |
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| Shareholder of TandemLife Pittsburgh, PA | Manufactures the world’s first FDA-cleared and CE-marked short-term extracorporeal circulatory support platform. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to LivaNova, PLC (London, England) |
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| SyberSay Technologies San Jose, CA | Provides acoustic technologies for audio clarity. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Vista Eyecare Lawrenceville, GA | Provides professional eye care services and products to correct and promote optimum visual function and ocular health. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization |
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Manufacturing
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| Acterra Group Marion, IA | Petroleum installation and storage tank manufacturing. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Brass Ring Capital |
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| Actron Brook Park, OH | Manufactures automotive diagnostic and test equipment. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to SPX (Charlotte, NC) |
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| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Eagle Window & Door, Inc. (Dubuque, IA) |
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Louisiana Pacific Windows (OH) |
| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces doors and related products | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Taylor Door (West Branch, MI) |
| American Gas Group Toledo, OH | Distributes specialty, rare, and industrial gas products globally. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Praxair (Danbury, CT) |
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| Antex of Rochester Rochester, NY | Manufactures automotive components. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jasco International (Rochester, NY) |
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| Argo-Tech Cleveland, OH | Manufactures main engine fuel pumps and commercial and military airframe fuel pump and control products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Eaton (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Argo-Tech Cleveland, OH | Manufactures main engine fuel pumps and commercial and military airframe fuel pump and control products. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Greenbriar and Vestar (New York, NY) |
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| Arrowhead Industries Cleveland, OH | Markets and distributes automotive trunk tools and trim. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Joint venture with HÜHOCO (Wuppertal, Germany) |
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| ArvinMeritor Troy, MI Columbus Stampings Division Columbus, IN | Manufactures metal stampings and sheet metal. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Viking Industries (Cleveland, OH) |
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| ASC Signal Whitby, Ontario, Canada | Designs, manufactures, and sells satellite earth stations, air traffic control radar antenna, and high frequency antenna products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement |
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| Avon Bearings Cleveland, OH | Manufactures large diameter bearings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kaydon (Muskegon, MI) |
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| Beech Technology Systems Mentor, OH | Manufactures tooling dies and wax patterns used in jet engine assembly. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Redeemed shares of institutional investor |
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| Bevcorp Industries Willoughby, OH | Provides can and bottle fillers, blenders, crowners, cappers, steamers, handling equipment, rinsers, refrigeration equipment, and deaeration systems for the beverage industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Itochu (Tokyo, Japan) |
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| Bird Electronics Solon, OH | Manufactures instruments to measure electricity. | Provides innovative, reliable and customized RF conditioning solutions. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired TXRX Systems (Angola, NY) |
| Campbell Hausfeld Harrison, OH | Manufactures consumer, industrial, and commercial grade air compressors and related products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| Cardinal Fastener Cleveland, OH | Manufactures hot forged, large diameter fasteners for the bridge and wind energy industry. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Würth Group (Künzelsau, Germany) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Chemi-Trol Chemical Gibsonburg, OH | Manufactures large propane and ammonia tanks. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Harsco Corporation (Camp Hill, PA) |
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| Chemi-Trol Chemical Gibsonburg, OH Cal-Van Tools Division Gibsonburg, OH | Manufactures and distributes specialty automotive tools. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Horizon Tool (Greensboro, NC) |
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| Chemi-Trol Chemical Gibsonburg, OH Cory Orchard & Turf Division Indianapolis, IN | Manufactures and distributes fertilizers and other agricultural and turf products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Terra International (Louisville, KY) |
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| ChromaScape, Inc. Twinsburg, OH | Premier producer and distributor of color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Capital Partners (Norwalk, CT) |
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| ChromaScape, Inc. Twinsburg, OH | Premier producer and distributor of color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Provides value-added processing and distribution of dyes and specialty chemicals to the textile, paper, and other specialty industries. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Greenville Colorants (Greenville, SC) |
| CHRYSO Group Issy-les-Moulineaux, France | Designs, produces, markets, and delivers chemical solutions that help in creating sustainable building materials. | Type: Financial Advisory Details :Buyside Advisory |
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| Cleason Companies Newark, NY | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Newark, NY) |
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| Coating Excellence International Wrightstown, WI | Manufactures packaging products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mason Wells (Milwaukee, WI) |
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| Coldwater Veneer Coldwater, MI | Produces American hardwood veneer. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Industrial Opportunity Partners (Evanston, IL) |
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| Columbiana Boiler Company Columbiana, OH | Manufactures kettles for the galvanizing and other hot dip coating industries, as well as pressure vessels and transportation packages for the chemical industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to CBC Ventures (Cleveland, OH) |
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| CPI Engineering Services Midland, MI | Formulates and manufactures synthetic lubricants for the refrigeration and air compressor industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lubrizol Corporation (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Dexter Magnetic Technologies Elk Grove Village, IL | Designs, engineers, and manufactures magnetic circuits, permanent magnets, magnetic assemblies, electromagnetic systems, and finished products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (Beverly Hills, CA) |
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| Drake Manufacturing Services Co. Warren, OH | Manufactures branded CNC machine tool systems for the grinding market. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Uni-World Capital (New York, NY) |
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| DT Industries Dayton, OH Packaging Systems Division Lowell, MA and South Yorkshire, England | Designs and builds proprietary machines and integrated systems utilized for packaging, liquid filling, and tube filling applications for Merrill brands. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kinderhook Partners (Fort Lee, NJ) |
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| DT Industries Dayton, OH Converting Technologies (Sencorp) Division Hyannis, MA | Manufactures high-speed rotary presses and plastic processing machines and equipment. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Hyannis, MA) |
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| Duke Manufacturing Willoughby, OH | Manufactures precision-machined components and assemblies used predominately by the aerospace and defense sector. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Watervale Equity Partners (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures advanced products used in the automotive, defense, aerospace, environmental testing, medical implant devices, pharmaceutical services, nuclear energy, and food and beverage industries. | Type: Financial Advisory, Restructuring Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH Orthane Division Denton, TX | Manufactures highly-engineered, injection molded polyurethane seals and components. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to US Farathane (Royal Oak, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH Plastics Division Huntington, IN | Manufactures plastic parts for exterior automotive applications. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Cambridge Industries (Detroit, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Electro-Mec Indiana, PA | Rebuilds and distributes electric motors and parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Integrated Power Services (Greenville, SC) |
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| Elgin National Industries Downers Grove, IL | Designs, engineers, procures, and constructs bulk material handling and processing systems for the power and mining industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to GFI Energy Ventures (Los Angeles, CA) |
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| EMT Metals Endicott, NY | Manufactures metal components for diversified end markets, leveraging a comprehensive spectrum of high-tech manufacturing capabilities that allows for an all-encompassing product offering to its end customers. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Recapitalization by Gladstone Capital Corporation and Management (McLean, VA) |
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| Ennstone Falmouth, VA | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| Ennstone Falmouth, VA Pennsylvania Assets | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lindy Paving (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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| Essef Corporation Chardon, OH Hobson Brothers Subsidiary Shell Rock, IA | Manufactures plastic blow-mold tooling. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Shell Rock, IA) |
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| ETI Tech, Inc. Englewood, OH | Designs and manufactures electro-mechanical flight hardware and ground support equipment for aerospace and military industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Soaring Pine Capital (Birmingham, MI) |
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| Extrusions, Inc. HartFord, CT | A leading company specializing in the manufacturing and supply of high-quality aluminum extrusions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Northern States Metals (Youngstown, OH) |
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| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH Fluid Logic Portland, OR | Provides fluids used in the production of electronic componenets based on ceramic and quartz substrates, and advanced polishing fluids used for flat glass, precision optics, ophthalmic lenses, and specialty plastics. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to LaPel Solutions (Vancouver, WA) |
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| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides an extensive line of inorganic pigments. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Nubiola Pigmentos (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides laser marking technology for use on ceramics, plastics, metals, glass, and other hard surfaces. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acqiured TherMark Holdings, Inc. (Irvine, CA) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Supplies ceramic coatings to high-end tile manufacturers. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vetriceramici (Casola Valsenio, Italy) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Produces waterborne industrial paints with a focus on organic paints for glass substrates application. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Pinturas Benicarló, S.L. (Castellón, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides colors and pigments including automotive products, container and tableware products. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Ferer Dis Ticaret Ve Kimyasallar Anonim Sirketi A.S. (Istanbul and Kutahya, Turkey) |
| Flame Control Coatings, LLC Niagara Falls, NY | Manufactures fire retardant, heat resistant, and specialty coatings. Its brands include Flame Control and TemperKote. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (The Netherlands) |
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| Furnace Parts Cleveland, OH | Manufactures and distributes industrial thermocouples and temperature sensing devices and accessories. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ultra Electronics (Middlesex, England) |
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| Global Security Glazing Selma, AL | Designs and manufactures institutional security and custom architectural glass and glazing products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Grey Mountain Partners (Boulder, CO) |
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| Hayes Brake Mequon, WI | Designs, tests, manufactures, and sells non-automotive custom-engineered brake systems. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Nautic Partners (Providence, RI) |
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| Herman Miller Zeeland, MI | Designs and manufactures home, office, and healthcare furnishings and provides related services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering |
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| Hi TecMetal Group Cleveland, OH York Division Charleston, SC | Supplies brazing, thermal processing, and welding services and products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to IMT York and IMT Duncan (York, SC) |
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| Highland International Boone, NC | Formulates heat resistant and corrosion protection coatings with expertise in high-temperature coatings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Partners (The Netherlands) |
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| HMI Cleveland, OH Bliss Manufacturing Division Pawtucket, RI | Manufactures automotive stampings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Rhone Capital (New York, NY) |
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| HON Industries Muscatine, IA | Manufactures and markets business furniture, work space accessories, and fireplaces. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed secondary offering |
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| HTG Cleveland, OH | Provides brazing, thermal processing and welding services for automotive, aerospace, food, fluid power, and other industries. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring with Capital Works |
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| Interfuse Manufacturing Clarence, PA | Provides quality fabricated, welded and machined parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Renew Manufacturing |
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| International Specialty Alloys New Castle, PA | Provides high quality and high purity custom metal alloys and custom metal alloy powders to the aerospace, electronics, and high-performance industrial industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kennametal (Latrobe, PA) |
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| Interstate Southwest Navasota, TX | Manufactures and markets large-scale forgings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ellwood Texas Forge (Houston, TX) |
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| Kennametal Latrobe, PA Disston Company Division South Deerfield, MA | Manufactures and markets power tool accessories for do-it-yourself, contractor, and industrial markets globally. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Cal SDI (Pomona, CA) |
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| Kennametal Latrobe, PA Full Service Supply Division Latrobe, PA | Provides integrated supply chain and logistics management to large and medium-sized metalworking plants. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ferguson Enterprises, a subsidiary of Wolseley (Zug, Switzerland) |
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| Lakeside Scrap Metals, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals including steel, copper, brass, and aluminum. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt refinancing |
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| Lower Lakes Towing Port Dover, Ontario, Canada | Provides bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Rand Acquisition (New York, NY) |
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| Mark Concepts Dayton, OH | Fabricates aluminum and steel components and provides subassemblies for the heavy duty truck and related industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mancor Canada (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) |
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| MCR Rochester, NY | Provides non-ferrous processing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Copper & Brass Sales, a division of Thyssenkrupp Materials NA (Southfield, MI) |
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| MCR Rochester, NY | Provides non-ferrous processing services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Miami Valley Steel Service Picqua, OH | Provides steel processing service sand distributes finished products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Esmark (Chicago Heights, IL) |
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| Michelex Massena, NY | Manufactures and distributes packaging products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring |
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| Neway Stamping & Manufacturing Company, Inc. Willoughby, OH | Produces close tolerance, short-run custom, precision metal stampings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Bowden Capital Group (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Ohio Blow Pipe Cleveland, OH | Provides premier recycling, environmental, and health/safety material handling solutions provider to various markets in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to CapitalWorks (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Ohio Tool Works, a portfolio company of Artemis Capital Partners Macedonia, OH | Designs and builds both standard and custom honing technology for a diverse and growing base of global customers across the industrial, aerospace, defense, and metal working industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Hardinge, a portfolio company of Privet Fund |
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| Park North Capital Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides decorative plating solutions to healthcare and other industries. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired a controlling interest in Woodhill Plating Company (Cleveland, OH) |
| PECo Process Equipment Tipp City, OH | Specializes in precise, verified machining, grinding and fabricating of large metal products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lincoln Electric (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Qualitech Steel Indianapolis, IN | Produces highly-engineered steels for the automotive, transportation, and capital goods industries. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Project financing |
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| R.W. Sidley Painesville, OH | Manufactures and supplies bulk aggregates, industrial minerals, ready-mix concrete, masonry block products, structural and architectural precast components, and building supplies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt recapitalization by Wingspire Capital (Alpharetta, GA) |
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| RB&W Streetsboro, OH | Manufactures and markets cold forming technology and produces cold-formed parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Park-Ohio (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Rossborough Supply Company Cleveland, OH | Manufactures magnesium and aluminum automotive parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Monomoy Capital Partners (New York, NY) |
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| SMED International Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Manufactures modular office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Solar Flex Rack Youngstown, OH | A solar products and services company. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Hanwha Solutions |
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| Specialty Air Technologies, Inc. Long Beach, CA | Blends and packages “high-end” pure gases and mixtures for several growing niche markets in North America, Latin America, and Asia. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Tech Air (Danbury, CT) |
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| Steel Dynamics Butler, IN | Produces carbon steel products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Project financing |
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| Steelcase Grand Rapids, MI | Markets and sells office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Assist Wege family in IPO |
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| Sudbury Cleveland, OH South Coast Terminals, Inc. Subsidiary Houston, TX | Provides storage and processing services for the oil and chemical industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to KMCO (Crosby, TX) |
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| Superior Specialty Gas Services, Inc. Tulsa, OK | Distributes specialty gas mixtures for the North American hydrocarbon market. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Airgas USA (Radnor, PA) |
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| Tomlinson Cleveland, OH | Manufactures and provides equipment and components for the global food and beverage sector | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Crown Brands, LLC, a portfolio company of Centre Lane Partners (Lincolnshire, IL) |
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| TPC Metals, Inc. Newark, NJ | Operates as a metal service center and provides tin mill, light gauge cold rolled, galvanized, and aluminum products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lakeside Metals (Willowbrook, IL) |
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| VanDeMark Chemical, Inc. Lockport, NY | Produces specialty, intermediate, and catalyst chemicals utilizing phosgenation chemistry. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Recapitalization by Prospect Capital (New York, NY) |
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| VanDeMark Chemical, Inc. Lockport, NY | Produces specialty, intermediate, and catalyst chemicals utilizing phosgenation chemistry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Uni-World Capital (New York, NY) and Brightwood Capital (New York, NY) |
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| Victor Insulators Victor, NY | Manufactures electrical components. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Warren Industrial Group, LLC Warren, OH | Diversified industrial holding company. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Everett Industries, Inc. (Warren, OH) |
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| Waterlink Columbus, OH | Provides products, equipment, systems, and services related to activated carbon and its uses for water and air purification, solvent recovery, odor control, and chemical processing. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Calgon Carbon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
Residential & Commercial Services
| Client | Client Description | Target Desciption | Transaction | |
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| 72 Degrees Fredericksburg, TX | Provides heating and cooling services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Radiant (Austin, TX), a portfolio company of The Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| ABCO Cleveland, OH | Provides fire safety and security inspection, maintenance, and repair services for thousands of commercial customers in a variety of end markets. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Merged with ISA Fire and Security (Louisville, KY), a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners (Beachwood, OH) | ||
| Achill Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides janitorial services primarily for the movie theater industry. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Tri-County Maintenance (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Acterra Group Marion, IA | Petroleum installation and storage tank manufacturing. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Brass Ring Capital | ||
| All Pro Plumbing Ontario. CA | Provides plumbing and HVAC. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| Arco Comfort Air® Plumbing & HVAC | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| The Armstrong Group Atlanta, GA | Diversified family holding company with operating companies in the cable, telecommunications, security, real estate development, electronics, manufacturing, and HVAC & plumbing services markets. | Provides full-service residential plumbing solutions, including drain cleaning, main line clog removal, sewer backups and repairs, sewer lining, water heating, water line, and sump pump services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquisition of Matt Mertz Plumbing (Pittsburgh, PA) | |
| BHS Charlotte, NC | Distributes fire and safety products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) | ||
| Broadview Instrumentation Services, Inc. Valley View, OH | Provides instrumentation services to diverse end markets, offering in-house and on-site accredited calibrations, repair services, and program management. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Trescal, a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity (Toronto, Canada) | ||
| Brooks Equipment Charlotte, NC | Distributes fire and safety products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) | ||
| Buffalo Construction Louisville, KY | Builds and remodels restaurants primarily for Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management (Louisville, KY) | ||
| Butler HVAC, Inc. Dayton, OH | Provides full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installation and repair. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to a group of private investors. | ||
| Ceramic Matrix West Palm Beach, FL | South and Central Florida’s leading authority in high end luxury natural stones and ceramic tile from Italy, Spain, and around the world. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Architectural Surfaces, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) | ||
| Childers Air, Plumbing & Electric Beckley, WV | Provides plumbing, hvac and electrical services. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Service Country a portfolio company of Grove Mountain Partners. | ||
| Climate Solutions Austin, TX | Provides commercial HVAC and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sold to Pueblo Mechanical (Phoenix, AZ), a portfolio company of Huron Capital (Detroit, MI) | ||
| Continental Building Systems Columbus, OH | Provides commercial building services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring. | ||
| Craftmaster Hardware, LLC Northvale, NJ | Leading wholesale distributor of commercial repair and replacement door hardware to institutional end users through North America. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to KENDALL (Mendota Heights, MN) a portfolio company of Keystone Capital (Chicago, IL) | ||
| David Gray St. Augustine, FL | Electrical, plumbing, heating, & air services | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Southern Home Services, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors (Maitland, FL) | ||
| Dean’s Home Services (Minneapolis, MN) | Provides heating, AC, plumbing & electrical services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Redwood Services (Memphis, TN) | ||
| Empire Crane Company, LLC Syracuse, NY | Provides sales, parts and attachments, and service to the commercial crane market principally in the Northeast United States. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. (San Leandro, CA) | ||
| Fetch-A-Tech Las Vegas, NV | Provides heating, air conditioning, and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Service Champions, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners (New York, NY) | ||
| Heritage Partners Oceanside, CA | Distributes electrical products. | Provides electrical and industrial distribution services to commercial, residential, utility, contractor and industrial markets. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired OneSource Distributors (Oceanside, CA) | |
| Hero Plumbing, Heating, Cooling, Drains, Ducts & Electrical | Provides plumbing, heating, cooling, drain, duct and electrical work. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| Itochu Tokyo, Japan | Engages in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products including textiles and machinery. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory | ||
| Len the Plumber, LLC Baltimore, MD | Provides full-service residential plumbing solutions, including drain cleaning, main line clog removal, sewer backups & repairs, sewer line, water heater, heating system, water line, gas line, and sump pump services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Thompson Street Capital Partners (St. Louis, MO) | ||
| Mainstream Electric, Heating, Cooling and Plumbing Spokane Valley, WA | Provides residential HVAC installation and repair, plumbing, electrical, excavation and drain services in the Greater Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, markets. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| Mason Structural Steel, LLC Walton Hills, OH | Provides home lifestyle and building products to Ohio and the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mason Steel Holdings, LLC (Walton Hills, OH) | ||
| Ohio Blow Pipe Cleveland, OH | Provides premier recycling, environmental, and health/safety material handling solutions to various markets in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to CapitalWorks (Cleveland, OH) | ||
| Paul W. Essig, Inc. Reading, PA | Provides full service residential plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to P1 Service Group, a portfolio company of River Sea Network and Edgewater Funds (Chicago, IL) | ||
| Pet Zone Products, Ltd. Brecksville, OH | Offers pet toys, treats, litter boxes, accessories, and feeding products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity Financing | ||
| Radiant Plumbing Services, Inc. Austin, TX | Offers premier home plumbing and HVAC service to the greater Austin area. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Riverside Company (New York, NY) | ||
| Rebmann Albertson, NY | Provides plumbing, heating, and air conditioning services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners (New York, NY) | ||
| Reynolds Orleans, IN | Supplies products and services to the water and wastewater industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Layne Christiansen (Kansas City, KS) | ||
| Roden Electrical Knoxville, TN | Distributes electrical products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kendall Electric (Portgage, MI) | ||
| RWC, Inc. | Provides railroad weed, grass and brush control | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ferrovia, a portfolio company of Auxo Investment Partners. | ||
| Safeguard Properties Cleveland, OH | Protects and preserves distressed residential properties through a nationwide subcontractor network. | Inspects and maintains defaulted and REO properties. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Bank of America Field Services (Dallas, TX) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired A New Look Lawn Care (Melbourne, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides commercial landscape maintenance services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired GreenLeaf landscaping & Irrigation and M&M Professional Grounds Maintenance | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides commercial landscape maintenance and irrigation services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired R&D Landscape & Irrigation (Jacksonville, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Lawn Techs (Melbourne, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services including tree removal, lawn irrigation installation and edging. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vexacor Turf Management (Jacksonville, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides full-service landscape, irrigation and landscape construction services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Down to Earth (Multiple locations throughout Florida) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Florida Evergreen (Naples, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Gulf Breeze Landscaping (Naples, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired GreenPro Landscape (Sarasota, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vivicon (Tampa, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscape services including lawn maintenance, irrigation, pest control, and fertilization. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Cintron Lawn Maintenance (Naples, FL) | |
| SCG Partners Cleveland, OH | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired L&R Landscape (Jacksonville, FL) | |
| Service Professor, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI | Provides residential plumbing, electrical, heating, cooling, drains, sewer, and duct-cleaning services to West and Southwest Michigan. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Calera Capital (San Francisco, CA) | ||
| Solar Flex Rack Youngstown, OH | A solar products and services company. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to Hanwha Solutions | ||
| T-Mark Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Sila Services a portfolio company of Morgan Stanley (Buffalo, NY) | ||
| Verne & Ellsworth Hann, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Provides heating, cooling and plumbing services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Heartland Home Services, Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI) a portfolio company of The Jordan Company (New York, NY) | ||
| W.F. Hann & Sons Warrensville Heights, OH | A heating, air conditioning, and plumbing provider. | Type:M&A Sale Details: Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners |
Specialty Chemical & Gases
| Client | Client Description | Target Description | Transaction |
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| American Gas Group Toledo, OH | Distributes specialty, rare, and industrial gas products globally. | Type: M&A Details: Sold to Praxair (Danbury, CT) |
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| Chemi-Trol Chemical Gibsonburg, OH Cory Orchard & Turf Division Indianapolis, IN | Manufactures and distributes fertilizers and other agricultural and turf products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Terra International (Louisville, KY) |
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| ChromaScape, Inc. Twinsburg, OH | Premier producer and distributor of color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Capital Partners (Norwalk, CT) |
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| ChromaScape, a Portfolio Company of Capital Partners New Brunswick, NJ | Premier producer and distributor of color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Provides value-added processing and distribution of dyes and specialty chemicals to the textile, paper, and other specialty industries. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Greenville Colorants (Greenville, SC) |
| CHRYSO Group Issy-les-Moulineaux, France | Designs, produces, markets and delivers chemical solutions help in creating sustainable building materials. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| CPI Engineering Services Midland, MI | Formulates and manufactures synthetic lubricants for the refrigeration and air compressor industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lubrizol Corporation (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides colors and pigments including automotive products, container and tableware products. | Type: M&A, Aquisition Details: Acquired Ferer Dis Ticaret Ve Kimyasallar Anonim Sirketi A.S. (Istanbul and Kutahya, Turkey) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH Fluid Logic Portland, OR | Provides fluids used in the production of electronic components based on ceramic and quartz substrates, and advanced polishing fluids used for flat glass, precision optics, ophthalmic lenses, and specialty plastics. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to LaPel Solutions (Vancouver, WA) |
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| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Produces waterborne industrial paints with a focus on organic paints for glass substrates application. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Pinturas Benicarlo, S.L. (Castellon, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides laser marking technology for use on ceramics, plastics, metals, glass, and other hard surfaces. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired TherMark Holdings, Inc. (Irvine, CA) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Supplies ceramic coatings to high-end tile manufacturers. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Vetriceramici (Casola Valsenio, Italy) |
| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides an extensive line of inorganic pigments. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Nubiola Pigmentos (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Flame Control Coatings Niagara Falls, NY | Manufactures fire retardant, heat resistant, and specialty coatings. Its brands include Flame Control and TemperKote. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Netherlands) |
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| Highland International (Boone, NC) | Formulates heat resistant and corrosion protection coatings with expertise in high-temperature coatings. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (Netherlands) |
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| International Specialty Alloys New Castle, PA | Provides high quality and high purity custom metal alloys and custom metal alloy powders to the aerospace, electronics, and high-performance industrial industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kennametal (Latrobe, PA) |
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| Materion Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies specialty materials including alloys, beryllium products, composite/clad metals, thin film deposition materials, and precision optics to a global market. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| Specialty Air Technologies, Inc. Long Beach, CA | Blends and packages “high-end” pure gases and mixtures for several growing niche markets in North America, Latin America, and Asia. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Tech Air (Danbury, CT) |
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| Sudbury Cleveland, OH South Coast Terminals, Inc. Subsidiary Houston, TX | Provides storage and processing services for the oil and chemical industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to KMCO (Crosby, TX) |
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| Superior Specialty Gas Services, Inc. Tulsa, OK | Distributes specialty gas mixtures for the North American hydrocarbon market. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Airgas USA (Radnor, PA) |
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| VanDeMark Chemical Lockport, NY | Produces specialty, intermediate, and catalyst chemicals utilizing phosgenation chemistry. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Recapitalization by Prospect Capital (New York, NY) |
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| VanDeMark Chemical, Inc. Lockport, NY | Produces specialty, intermediate, and catalyst chemicals utilizing phosgenation chemistry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Uni-World Capital (New York, NY) and Brightwood Capital (New York, NY) |
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Specialty Distribution
| Client | Client Description | Target Description | Transaction |
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| AirNet Systems Columbus, OH Jetride Subsidiary Columbus, OH | Provides passenger charter services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Pinnacle Air (Bentonville, AR) |
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| AirNet Systems Columbus, OH | Provides time-critical transportation services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| Atlantic Plywood Corporation Woburn, MA | Distributes industrial wood products and related accessories throughout several metropolitan markets in the Northeastern U.S. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Parksite Inc. (Batavia, IL) |
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| AtomicBox Logistics Aurora, OH | Offers third party logistics services, primarily to consumer and commercial product companies. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to CaseStack (Santa Monica, CA) |
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| Auburn Armature, Inc. Auburn, NY | Provides electric motor repair and is a wholesale distributor of electrical and related products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to AAI Acquisition, a subsidiary of Power Flo Technologies in Chapter 11 (New Hyde Park, NY) |
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| BHS Charlotte, NC | Distributes fire and safety products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Freeman Spogli (Los Angeles, CA) |
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| Bottle Solutions, LLC Cleveland, OH | Distributes containers and packaging products primarily serving the Eastern U.S. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Pipeline Packaging (Glenwillow, OH) |
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| Brooks Equipment Charlotte, NC | Distributes fire and safety products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) |
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| Buckeye Sports Supply Canton, OH | Distributes outdoor sporting goods, primarily for hunting and fishing. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Acusport (Bellefontaine, OH) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Century Equipment Toledo, OH | Provides quality products, customer care, and service to home owners, golf courses, landscaping contractors, sports fields, governmental entities, and commercial and industrial organizations. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jerry Pate Company (Pensacola, FL) |
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| Chambers Leasing Systems, Inc. Toledo, OH | Provides logistics for the Midwestern automotive OEM market. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Venture Express (LaVergne, TN) |
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| Craftmaster Hardware, LLC Northvale, NJ | Leading wholesale distributor of commercial repair and replacement door hardware to institutional end users through North America. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to KENDALL (Mendota Heights, MN) a portfolio company of Keystone Capital (Chicago, IL) |
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| DistTech Newbury, OH Dedicated Transport Subsidiary Cleveland, OH | Specializes in the design, development, and execution of supply chain solutions and offers engineered transportation solutions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Management supported by Centerfield Capital Partners (Indianapolis, IN) and Patriot Capital (Baltimore, MD) |
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| Evolution Ag, LLC Columbus, OH | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold Certain Locations to Farmers Equipment (OH) |
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| Furnace Parts Beachwood, OH | Manufactures and distributes industrial thermocouples and temperature sensing devices and accesories. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ultra Electronics (Middlesex, England) |
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| Glendale Parade Store San Antonio, TX | A ceremonial products distributor. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Clotho Holdings |
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| Group Transportation Services Hudson, OH | Provides transportation management solutions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Thayer Hidden Creek (Washington, DC) |
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| Harrington Holdings, a.k.a. Edgepark Surgical Twinsburg, OH | Markets and distributes healthcare products to managed care beneficiaries, home care supply providers, and healthcare professionals. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to The Jordan Company (New York, NY) |
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| Heritage Partners Oceanside, CA | Distributes electrical products. | Provides electrical and industrial distribution services to commercial, residential, utility, contractor, and industrial markets. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired OneSource Distributors (Oceanside, CA) |
| Hutchins Automotive Supply Buffalo, NY | Distributes automotive aftermarket supplies. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to General Parts (CarQuest) (Raleigh, NC) |
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| I&K Distributors Delphos, OH | Manufactures, sells, and distributes branded and private label potato salads, cheese, and other foods. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to SCIS Food Services, nka Chef Solutions (Wheeling, IL) |
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| Kennametal Latrobe, PA Full Service Supply Division Latrobe, PA | Provides integrated supply chain and logistics management to large and medium-sized metalworking plants. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ferguson Enterprises, a subsidiary of Wolseley (Zug, Switzerland) |
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| Lower Lakes Towing Port Dover, Ontario, Canada | Provides bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Rand Acquisition (New York, NY) |
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| Mason Structural Steel, LLC Walton Hills, OH | Provides home lifestyle and building products to Ohio and the Great Lakes region. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Mason Steel Holdings, LLC (Walton Hills, OH) |
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| Michelex Massena, NY | Manufactures and distributes packaging products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring |
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| PJAX Freight System Gibsonia, PA | Provides less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Vitran (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
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| RB&W Streetsboro, OH | Manufactures and markets cold forming technology and produces cold-formed parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Park-Ohio (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Roden Electrical Knoxville, TN | Distributes electrical products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Kendall Electric (Portage, MI) |
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| Spartan Stores Grand Rapids, MI | Sells and distributes groceries. | Operates chain of supermarkets and discount drug stores in Northeast Ohio. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Seaway Food Town (Maumee, OH) |
| Spartan Stores Grand Rapids, MI L.L./Jiroch and J.F. Walker Subsidiaries Grand Rapids, MI | Distributes products to convenience stores | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to H.T. Hackney (Knoxville, TN) |
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| TPC Metals, Inc. Newark, NJ | Operates as a metal service center and provides tin mill, light gauge cold rolled, galvanized, and aluminum products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Lakeside Metals (Willowbrook, IL) |
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| Zephyr Solutions, Inc. Avon Lake, OH | Provides logistics and supply chain management for industrial gases serving retail and industrial customers throughout North America. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Aterian Investment Partners (New York, NY) |
Technology
| Client | Client Description | Target Description | Transaction |
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| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Reseller of contact lenses. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired Lens Express and Lens 1st |
| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Manager IPO |
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| 360 Fresh Palo Alto, CA | Develops innovative clinical analytic solutions for acute and post-acute care providers, accountable care organizations, payors and stakeholders in the healthcare industry. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to The Advisory Board Company (Washington, DC) |
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| Actron Brook Park, OH | Manufactures automotive diagnostic and test equipment. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to SPX (Charlotte, NC) |
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| Antex of Rochester Rochester, NY | Manufactures automotive components. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Jasco International (Rochester, NY) |
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| ASC Signal Whitby, Ontario, Canada | Designs, manufactures, and sells satellite earth stations, air traffic control radar antenna, and high frequency antenna products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement |
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| Bird Electronics Solon, OH | Manufactures instruments to measure electricity. | Provides innovative, reliable and customized RF conditioning solutions. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired TXRX Systems (Angola, NY) |
| Certified Security Solutions, Inc. Independence, OH | Provides information security consulting services and software solutions focused on identity and access management to enterprise clients. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity investment from Plymouth Ventures (Ann Arbor, MI) |
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| DataServ | Provides unique, cutting-edge IT solutions and services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Renovus Capital (Wayne, PA) |
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| Elgin National Industries Downers Grove, IL | Designs, engineers, procures, and constructs bulk material handling and processing systems for the power and mining industries. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to GFI Energy Ventures (Los Angeles, CA) |
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| EmployOn Cleveland, OH | Provides online employment services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to GetTheJob (Bentonville, AR) |
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| Ferro Corporation Mayfield Heights, OH | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides laser marking technology for use on ceramics, plastics, metals, glass, and other hard surfaces. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired TherMark Holdings, Inc. (Irvine, CA) |
| Group Transportation Services Hudson, OH | Provides transportation management solutions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Thayer Hidden Creek (Washington, DC) |
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| Homeloan.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled home loan information and services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Imalux Corporation Cleveland, OH | Commercializes optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems for site-of-care tissue imaging. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in equity restructuring |
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| Jobs.ch Zurich, Switzerland | Provides online employment services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Tiger Global Management (New York, NY) |
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| Lexi-Comp, Inc. Hudson, OH | Synthesizes medical information to provide point of care clinical decision support. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Wolters Kluwer (Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands) |
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| Markets and Markets Pune, India | Provides quantified B2B research on high growth emerging opportunities/threats to a worldwide customer base. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Buyside Advisory |
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| Mid-America Consulting Group, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Provides information technology management consulting. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt capital raise |
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| Mutuals.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled financial advisory services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Ohio Innovation Fund Cleveland, OH | Operates as an investment fund for Cleveland Tomorrow. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Optical Dynamics Louisville, KY | Develops Cast RX digital lens technologies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Palladian Health, LLC West Seneca, NY | Leading technology-enabled provider of outsourced musculoskeletal care and pain management services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to eviCore healthcare, LLC (Bluffton, SC) |
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| Peoplescape.com San Diego, CA | Provides software enabled human resource consulting services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| PreEmptive Solutions, LLC Mayfield Village, OH | Leading provider of application protection and security tools for desktop, mobile, cloud and IoT devices. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Idera, Inc. (Houston, TX) |
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| Segmint Inc. Akron, OH | Provides disruptive analytics and digital marketing solutions for banks, credit unions, credit card companies, and other financial institutions. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity placement with FIS (Jacksonville, FL) |
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| SMR Holdings, LLC Statesville, NC | Provides an array of software-driven solutions, including data destruction, decommissioning, redeployment, remarketing and recycling. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to New Capital Partners (Birmingham, AL) |
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| SyberSay Technologies San Jose, CA | Provides acoustic technologies for audio clarity. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Shareholder of TandemLife Pittsburgh, PA | Manufactures the world’s first FDA-cleared and CE-marked short-term extracorporeal circulatory support platform. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to LivaNova, PLC (London, England) |
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| Tyden Group Grand Rapids, MI | Provides cargo security and product identification traceability solutions. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Crimson Investment (Palo Alto, CA) |
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| Universal Electronics Cypress, CA | Designs and develops solutions that enable consumers to control entertainment devices, digital media, and home systems. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan |
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| Zengine Fremont, CA | Provides e-business software and services. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to MCSi (Dayton, OH) |
SERVICES
Buy-side
| Client | Client Description | Target Description | Transaction |
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| The Armstrong Group | Diversified family holding company with operating companies in the cable, telecommunications, security, real estate development, electronics manufacturing, and HVAC & plumbing services markets. | Matt Mertz Plumbing provides full-service residential plumbing solutions, including drain cleaning, main line clog removal, sewer backups & repairs, sewer lining, water heating, water line, and sump pump services. | Acquired Matt Mertz Plumbing |
| ChromaScape, Inc. | Premier producer and distributor of color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Provides value-added processing and distribution of dyes and specialty chemicals to the textile, paper and other specialty industries. | Acquired Greenville Colorants (Greenville, SC) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscape services. | Acquisition of GreenPro Landscape (Sarasota, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscape services. | Acquisition of Vivicon (Tampa, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscape services. | Acquisition of L&R Landscape (Jacksonville, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping serivces. | Acquisition of Florida Evergreen (Naples, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Acquisition of Gulf Breeze Landscaping (Naples, FL) |
| Warren Industrial Group, LLC | Diversified industrial holding company. | Manufactures industrial saws. | Acquisition of Everett Industries, Inc. (Warren, OH) |
| Ferro Corporation | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Produces waterborne industrial paints with a focus on organic paints for glass substrates application. | Acquisition of Pinturas Benicarló, S.L. (Castellón, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides colors and pigments including automotive products, container and tableware products. | Acquisition of Ferer Dis Ticaret Ve Kimyasallar Anonim Sirketi A.S. (Istanbul and Kutahya, Turkey |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides commercial landcape maintenance and irrigation services. | Acquisition of R&D Landscape & Irrigation (Jacksonville, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Acquisition of Lawn Techs (Melbourne, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services including tree removal, lawn irrigation installation and edging. | Acquisition of Vexacor Turf Management (Jacksonville, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides full-service landscape, irrigation and landscape construction services. | Acquisition of Down to Earth (Multiple Locations Throughout Florida) |
| Ferro Corporation | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides an extensive line of inorganic pigments. | Acquisition of Nubiola Pigmentos (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Ferro Corporation | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Provides laser marking technology for use on ceramics, plastics, metals, glass, and other hard surfaces. | Acquisition of TherMark Holdings, Inc. (Irvine, CA) |
| Park North Capital | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides decorative plating solutions to healthcare and other industries. | Acquisition of a controlling interest in Woodhill Plating Company (Cleveland, OH) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscaping services. | Acquisition of A New Look Lawn Care (Melbourne, FL) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides commercial landscape maintenance services. | Acquisition of GreenLeaf Landscaping & Irrigation and M&M Professional Grounds Maintenance (Melbourne, FL) |
| Ferro Corporation | Supplies technology-based performance materials to the global market. | Supplies ceramic coatings to high-end tile manufacturers. | Acquisition of Vetriceramici (Casola Valsenio, Italy) |
| Achill Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides janitorial services primarily for the movie theater industry | Acquisition of Tri-County Maintenance (Cleveland, OH) |
| Achill Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Acts as a FINRA-licensed broker-dealer | Acquisition of SFI Capital Group (Cleveland, OH) |
| ForTech Medical | Provides on-call mobilization of surgical equipment to hospitals and surgical centers. | Provides medical technology mobilization services, offering surgical lasers, related devices, and technician support to hospitals and surgical centers in Maryland and Virginia. | Acquisition of Falls Church Laser (Falls Church, VA) |
| Safeguard Properties | Protects and preserves distressed residential properties through a nationwide subcontractor network. | Inspects and maintains defaulted and REO properties. | Acquisition of Bank of America Field Services (Dallas, TX) |
| Beech Technology Systems | Manufactures tooling dies and wax patterns used in jet engine assembly. | Redeemed shares of institutional investor | |
| Dots | Sells extreme value fashion apparel and accessories for women. | Redemption of 49% shareholder | |
| Nordco | Manufactures maintenance-of-way machinery and provides inspection services to North American freight and passenger railroads. | Provides preventative maintenance and emergency repair service for railcar movers. | Acquisition of Shuttlewagon (Grandview, MO) |
| Nordco | Manufactures maintenance-of-way machinery and provides inspection services to North American freight and passenger railroads. | Owns and operates a fleet of ultrasonic rail inspection vehicles. | Acquisition of Dapco Technologies (Ridgefield, CT) |
| Northern States Metals | A leading company specializing in the and supply of high-quality aluminum extrusions. | A company specializing in the manufacturing and supply of high-quality aluminum extrusions. | Acquisition of Extrusions, Inc (Hartford Connecticut) |
| Heritage Partners | Distributes electrical products. | Provides electrical and industrial distribution services to commercial, residential, utility, contractor and industrial markets. | Acquisition of OneSource Distributors (Oceanside, CA) |
| 1-800 Contacts | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Reseller of contact lenses | Acquisition of Lens Express and Lens 1st |
| CPI Holdings | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Provides manufacturing, packaging and fulfillment services. | Financial advisor in acquisition of DeRidder (Rochester, NY) |
| Jasco International | Provides professional photographic printing services. | Provides professional photo/imaging lab services. | Acquisition of Burrell Professional Labs, an Eastman Kodak Company (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Arrowhead Industries | Markets and distributes automotive trunk tools and trim. | Joint venture with HÜHOCO (Wuppertal, Germany) | |
| Direct Focus (nka: Nautilus) | Markets fitness and healthy lifestyle products. | Specializes in the design and production of fitness equipment for commercial, light commercial, and home use. | Acquisition of StairMaster Sports/Medical (Kirkland, WA) |
| Kelly Services | Provides global workforce solutions, including outsourcing, consulting, and staffing services. | Provides employment services | Acquisition of ProStaff (Milwaukee, WI) |
| Spartan Stores | Sells and distributes groceries. | Operates chain of supermarkets and discount drug stores in Northwest Ohio. | Acquisition of Seaway Food Town (Maumee, OH) |
| American Architectural Products | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces doors and related products | Acquisition of Taylor Door (West Branch, MI) |
| Elder-Beerman Stores | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Operates chain of department stores. | Acquisition of Stone & Thomas (Wheeling, WV) |
| Jo-Ann Stores | Operates as a specialty fabric and craft retailer. | Operates retail fabric stores. | Acquisition of House of Fabrics (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Bird Electronics | Manufactures instruments to measure electricity. | Provides innovative, reliable and customized RF conditioning solutions. | Acquisition of TXRX Systems (Angola, NY) |
| SCG Partners | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides landscape services including lawn maintenance, irrigation, pest control and fertilization. | Acquisition of Cintron Lawn Maintenance (Naples, FL) |
| _Aeterna Zentaris Inc. | Develops and commercializes therapeutics and diagnostic tests. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _Alliance Solutions Group, LLC | Provides highly specialized, relationship-oriented staffing and recruitment solutions to a wide range of niche industries. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _Campbell Hausfeld | Manufactures consumer, industrial, and commercial grade air compressors and related products. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _CHRYSO Group | Designs, produces, markets and delivers chemical solutions that help in creating sustainable building materials. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _Itochu | Engages in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products including textiles and machinery. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _Markets and Markets | Provides quantified B2B research on high growth emerging opportunities/threats to a worldwide customer base. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _Materion Corporation | Supplies specialty materials including alloys, beryllium products, composite / clad metals, thin film deposition materials, and precision optics to a global market. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _Scott Fetzer | Manufactures and markets products for the home, family and industry. | Buyside Advisory | |
| _The PDI Group | Provides high quality munitions trailers, running gear, weapons containers and modules, weapons adapters, and other ground support equipment. | Buyside Advisory | |
| American Architectural Products | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products | Acquisition of Eagle Window & Door, Inc. (Dubuque, IA) |
| American Architectural Products | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Produces windows and related products | Acquisition of Louisiana Pacific Windows (OH) |
| Park North Capital | Invests in middle market businesses. | Provides advisory services to individuals looking for health insurance coverage. | Acquisition of a controlling interest in LIG Solutions (Independence, OH) |
Divestitures
| Client | Client Description | Transaction |
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| AirNet Systems | Provides passenger charter services. | Sold to Pinnacle Air (Bentonville, AR) |
| American Consumer Products | Distributes fasteners to hardware retailers. | Sold to Pawtucket Fasteners LP (Pawtucket, RI) |
| ArvinMeritor | Manufactures metal stampings and sheet metal. | Sold to Viking Industries (Cleveland, OH) |
| Bettcher Industries | Manufactures patented safety gloves. | Sold to Wells Lamont (Chicago, IL) |
| Chemi-Trol Chemical | Manufactures and distributes specialty automotive tools. | Sold to Horizon Tool (Greensboro, NC) |
| Chemi-Trol Chemical | Manufactures and distributes fertilizers and other agricultural and turf products. | Sold to Terra International (Louisville, KY) |
| DistTech | Specializes in the design, development, and execution of supply chain solutions and offers engineered transportation solutions. | Sold to Management supported by Centerfield Capital Partners (Indianapolis, IN) and Patriot Capital (Baltimore, MD) |
| DT Industries | Manufactures high-speed rotary presses and plastic processing machines and equipment. | Sold to Management (Hyannis, MA) |
| DT Industries | Designs and builds proprietary machines and integrated systems utilized for packaging, liquid filling, and tube filling applications for Merrill brands. | Sold to Kinderhook Partners (Fort Lee, NJ) |
| Eagle-Picher | Manufactures plastic parts for exterior automotive applications. | Sold to Cambridge Industries (Detroit, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
| Eagle-Picher | Manufactures highly-engineered, injection molded polyurethane seals and components. | Sold to US Farathane (Royal Oak, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
| Elder-Beerman Stores | Shoe retailer. | Sold to Jam Shoe Concepts (Dayton, OH) |
| Ennstone | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Sold to Lindy Paving (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Essef Corporation | Manufactures plastic blow-mold tooling. | Sold to Management (Shell Rock, IA) |
| F. Schumacher | Offers fabrics, wallpaper, and a multitude of coordinated home fashions under the Waverly home furnishings brand. | Sold to Ellery Homestyles (New York, NY) |
| Ferro Corporation | Provides fluids used in the production of electronic components based on ceramic and quartz substrates, and advanced polishing fluids used for flat glass, precision optics, ophthalmic lenses, and specialty plastics. | Sold to LaPel Solutions (Vancouver, WA) |
| Hi TecMetal Group | Supplies brazing, thermal processing, and welding services and products. | Sold to IMT York and IMT Duncan (York, SC) |
| HMI | Manufactures automotive stampings. | Sold to Rhone Capital (New York, NY) |
| Horizon Organic | Processes and markets branded organic milk and other dairy products. | Sold to Dean Foods (Dallas, TX) |
| Kennametal | Manufactures and markets power tool accessories for do-it-yourself, contractor, and industrial markets globally. | Sold to Cal SDI (Pomona, CA) |
| Kennametal | Provides integrated supply chain and logistics management to large and medium-sized metalworking plants. | Sold to Ferguson Enterprises, a subsidiary of Wolseley (Zug, Switzerland) |
| Lancaster Colony | Manufactures tabletop and decorative glassware containers for the retail, private label, candle, and floral markets. | Sold to Monomoy Capital Partners (New York, NY) |
| R.W. Sidley, Inc. | Leading building products manufacturer for the North American energy and infrastructure markets. | Sold to CXT Inc. (Spokane, WA) a subsidiary of LBFoster (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Royal Appliance | Provides in-home anti-telemarketing services. | Sold to VTech Holdings (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) |
| Scott Fetzer | Manufactures vacuum cleaners and home cleaning accessories. | Sold to Right Lane Industries (Chicago, IL) |
| Spartan Stores | Distributes products to convenience stores. | Sold to H.T. Hackney (Knoxville, TN) |
| Sudbury | Provides storage and processing services for the oil and chemical industries. | Sold to KMCO (Crosby, TX) |
| Yonanas | Consumer brand kitchen appliance that enables consumers to enjoy the taste and feel of soft serve ice cream using only 100% real fruit without fat, dairy, or added sugar. | Sold to The Legacy Companies (Weston, FL) |
Equity & Debt Advisory
| Client | Client Description | Target Description | Transaction |
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| 1-800 Contacts Draper, UT | Markets and manufactures contact lenses. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO |
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| AirNet Systems Columbus, OH | Provides time-critical transportation services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| American Architectural Products Boardman, OH | Produces aluminum, vinyl, and wood-clad windows, steel security screen doors, entry doors, and related products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed high-yield debt offering |
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| American Greetings Brooklyn, OH | Designs, manufactures, markets, and sells seasonal and everyday greeting cards and other social expression products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering |
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| ASC Signal Whitby, Ontario, Canada | Designs, manufactures, and sells satellite earth stations, air traffic control radar antenna, and high frequency antenna products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement |
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| Baldwin Piano Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures and distributes musical instruments. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan |
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| Brass Eagle Bentonville, AR | Manufactures, markets, and distributes paintball and extreme sports products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed IPO |
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| Buffalo Wild Wings Minneapolis, MN | Owns, operates, and franchises restaurans. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement with Gemini and investors |
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| Certified Security Solutions, Inc. Independence, OH | Provides information security consulting services and software solutions focused on identity and access management to enterprise clients. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity investment from Plymouth Ventures (Ann Arbor, MI) |
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| CFI Timeshare Mortgage Trust Orlando, FL | Finances timeshare receivables. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt private placement |
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| Chili Plastics Rochester, NY | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Cleveland Indians Cleveland, OH | Professional baseball team. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO |
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| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed follow-on offering |
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| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed high-yield debt offering |
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| Cole National Twinsburg, OH | Provides optical products and services and personalized gifts, under brands such as Pearle Vision and Things Remembered. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan |
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| Collaborative Clinical Research Cleveland, OH | Conducts clinical research. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Complient Cleveland, OH | Provides automated external defibrillators (AED) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and AED program management. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement with multiple investors |
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| Consolidated Stores Columbus, OH | Operates as a value-specialty retailer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed follow-on offering |
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| Continental Building Systems Columbus, OH | Provides commercial building services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| DDR Beachwood, OH | Develops and owns real estate, principally in shopping centers. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed follow-on offering |
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| D’Lisi Food Systems Rochester, NY | Manufactures prepared food products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement |
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| E.R. Jahna Lake Whales, FL | Produces sand and gravel. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in financing |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures advanced products used in the automotive, defense, aerospace, environmental testing, medical implant devices, pharmaceutical services, nuclear energy, and food and beverage industries. | Type: Financial Advisory, Restructuring Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead Managed IPO |
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| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| EMT Metals Endicott, NY | Manufactures metal components for diversified end markets, leveraging a comprehensive spectrum of high-tech manufacturing capabilities that allows for an all-encompassing product offering to its end customers. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Recapitalization by Gladstone Capital Corporation and Management (McLean, VA) |
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| Ennstone Falmouth, VA | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restrcturing |
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| Flight Fit N Fun, LLC Sterling, VA | Operates multi-attraction family entertainment facilities. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Growth investment from Summit Partners (Boston, MA) |
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| Flour City Bagels Rochester, NY | Operates as a franchisee of Bruegger’s Bagels. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| FTD Downers Grove, IL | Provides floral and specialty gift products and services to consumers and retail florists. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| Gliatech Cleveland, OH | Manufactures surgical adhesion devices and central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Gliatech Cleveland, OH | Manufactures surgical adhesion devices and central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Harry London Candies North Canton, OH | Produces high quality chocolates, mints, buckeyes, and joys. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt and equity restructuring |
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| Health Imaging Las Vegas, NV | Manufactures radiopharmaceuticals. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| Herman Miller Zeeland, MI | Designs and manufactures home, office, and healthcare furnishings and provides related services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering |
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| High Liner Foods Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | Processes branded and private label frozen foods. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| Homeloan.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled home loan information and services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| HON Industries Muscatine, IA | Manufactures and markets business furniture, work space accessories, and fireplaces. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed secondary offering |
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| HTG Cleveland, OH | Provides brazing, thermal processing and welding services for automotive, aerospace, food, fluid power and other industries. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring with Capital Works |
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| Imalux Corporation Cleveland, OH | Commercializes optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems for site-of-care tissues imaging. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in equity restructuring |
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| Intellitecs Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures women’s hygiene products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| International Total Service Cleveland, OH | Provides airports and other public facilities with security services, security equipment, and support staff. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed IPO |
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| Jo-Ann Stores Hudson, OH | Operates as a specialty fabric and craft retailer. | Operates retail fabric stores. | Type: M&A, Acquisition Details: Acquired House of Fabrics (Los Angeles, CA) |
| L.L. Bean Freeport, ME | Markets outdoor and leisure apparel and accessories via catalogues and website. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt private placement |
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| Lakeside Scrap Metals, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Processes ferrou and nonferrous scrap metals including steel, copper, brass, and aluminum. | Type: Financial Advisory Details Debt refinancing |
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| Max & Erma’s Columbus, OH | Owns, operates, and franchises restaurants. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt Placement |
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| MCR Rochester, NY | Provides non-ferrous processing services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Michelex Massena, NY | Manufactures and distributes packaging products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring |
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| Mid-America Consulting Group, Inc. Cleveland, OH | Provides information technology management consulting. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt capital raise (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Mutuals.com Dallas, TX | Offers software enabled financial advisory services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| OfficeMax Shaker Heights, OH | Markets and sells office supplies, furniture, and technology. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed follow-on equity offering |
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| Ohio Innovation Fund Cleveland, OH | Operates as an investment fund for Cleveland Tomorrow. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Optical Dynamics Louisville, KY | Develops Cast RX digital lens technologies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Penton Media Cleveland, OH | Provides various print and online products, such as targeted publications, websites, exhibitions, email newsletters, trade shows, and data products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan |
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| Peoplescape.com San Diego, CA | Provides software enabled human resource consulting services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Pet Zone Products Ltd. Brecksville, OH | Offers pet toys, treats, litter boxes, accessories, and feeding products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity Financing |
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| Phantom Fireworks Youngstown, OH | Retails and distributes consumer fireworks. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt placement with Main Street Capital (Houston, TX) |
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| Qualitech Steel Indianapolis, IN | Produces highly-engineered steels for the automotive, transportation, and capital goods industries. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Project financing |
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| R.W. Sidley, Inc. Painesville, OH | Manufactures and supplies bulk aggregates, industrial minerals, ready-mix concrete, masonry block products, structural and architectural precast components, and building supplies. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt recapitalization by Wingspire Capital (Alpharetta, GA) |
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| Rockford-Fosgate Tempe, AZ | Manufactures aftermarket and OEM car audio and in-car entertainment products and accessories, and personal electronics such as earphones. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Sandridge Foods Medina, OH | Manufactures refrigerated prepared foods. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| Segmint, Inc. Akron, OH | Provides disruptive analytics and digital marketing solutions for banks, credit unions, credit card companies, and other financial institutions. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity placement with FIS (Jacksonville, FL) |
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| Signature Inn Indianapolis, IN | Owns and operates hotels. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Lead managed Preferred Stock Offering |
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| Simon Property Group Indianapolis, IN | Owns and invests in over 340 retail properties in more than 40 states and Puerto Rico, and is the largest shopping mall owner in the United States. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| SMED International Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Manufactures modular office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group New York, NY | Develops, owns, and operates a chain of steakhouse restaurants. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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| Steel Dynamics Butler, IN | Produces carbon steel products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Project financing |
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| Steelcase Grand Rapids, MI | Markets and sells office furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Assist Wege family in IPO |
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| SUPERVALU Eden Prairie, MN | Operates as a grocery retailer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed debt offering |
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| SyberSay Technologies San Jose, CA | Provides acoustic technologies for audio clarity. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Equity private placement |
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| Universal Electronics Cypress, CA | Designs and develops solutions that enable consumers to control entertainment devices, digital media, and home systems. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Shareholder Rights Plan |
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| Value City Furniture Columbus, OH | Designs, manufactures, sells, and delivers value-priced furniture. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed equity offering |
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| VanDerMark Chemical Inc. Lockport, NY | Produces specialty, intermediate, and catalyst chemicals utilizing phosgenation chemistry. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Recapitalization by Prospect Capital (New York, NY) |
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| Victor Insulators Victor, NY | Manufactures electrical components. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Vista Eyecare Lawrenceville, GA | Provides professional eye care services and products to correct and promote optimum visual function and ocular health. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| Wild Oats Markets Boulder, CO | Owns and operates natural foods supermarkets. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Board review |
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| Zale Irving, TX | Retail jewelry. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Co-managed IPO |
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Restructuring & Bankruptcy
| Client | Client Description | Target Description | Transaction |
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| ArvinMeritor Troy, MI Columbus Stampings Division Columbus, IN | Manufactures metal stampings and sheet metal. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Viking Industries (Cleveland, OH) |
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| Auburn Armature, Inc. Auburn, NY | Provides electric motor repair services and is a wholesale distributor of electrical and related products. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to AAI Acquisition, a subsidiary of Power Flo Technologies in Chapter 11 (New Hyde Park, NY) |
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| Buckeye Sports Supply Canton, OH | Distributes outdoor sporting goods, primarily for hunting and fishing. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Acusport (Bellefontaine, OH) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Cardinal Fastener Cleveland, OH | Manufactures hot forged, large diameter fasteners for the bridge and wind energy industries. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Würth Group (Künzelsau, Germany) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Chili Plastics Rochester, NY | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Continental Building Systems Columbus, OH | Provides commercial building services. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH Plastics Division Huntington, IN | Manufactures plastic parts for exterior automotive applications. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Cambridge Industries (Detroit, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH | Manufactures advanced products used in the automotive, defense, aerospace, environmental testing, medical implant devices, pharmaceutical services, nuclear energy, and food and beverage industries. | Type: Financial Advisory, Restructuring Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| Eagle-Picher Cincinnati, OH Orthane Division Denton, TX | Manufactures highly-engineered, injection molded polyurethane seals and components. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to US Farathane (Royal Oak, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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| Elder-Beerman Stores Dayton, OH | Operates department store chain that offers branded merchandise. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| Flour City Bagels Rochester, NY | Operates as a franchisee of Bruegger’s Bagels. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Harry London Candies North Canton, OH | Produces high quality chocolates, mints, buckeyes, and joys. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt and equity restructuring |
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| Health Imaging Las Vegas, NV | Manufactures radiopharmaceuticals. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in debt restructuring |
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| Imalux Corporation Cleveland, OH | Commercializes optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems for site-of-care tissues imaging. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in equity restructuring |
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| Michelex Massena, NY | Manufactures and distributes packaging products. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Debt restructuring |
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| RevAir, LLC Macedonia, OH | Develops high-tech beauty products including The World’s First and Only Reverse-Air Dryer. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Received a significant equity investment from Lykos Capital Partners (San Francisco, CA) |
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| Victor Insulators Victor, NY | Manufactures electrical components. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Restructuring and debt placement |
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| Vista Eyecare Lawrenceville, GA | Provides professional eye care services and products to correct and promote optimum visual function and ocular health. | Type: Financial Advisory Details: Financial advisor in Chapter 11 reorganization |
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| Waterlink Columbus, OH | Provides products, equipment, systems, and services related to activated carbon and its uses for water and air purification, solvent recovery, odor control, and chemical processing. | Type: M&A, Sale, Restructuring Details: Sold to Calgon Carbon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding |
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Sell-side
| Client | Client Description | Transaction | |
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| 360 Fresh | Develops innovative clinical analytic solutions for acute and post-acute care providers, accountable care organizations, payors and stakeholders in the healthcare industry. | Sold to The Advisory Board Company (Washington, DC) | |
| 72 Degrees | Provides heating and cooling services. | Sold to Radiant (Austin, TX), a portfolio company of The Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | |
| ABCO | Provides fire safety and security inspection, maintenance, and repair services for thousands of commercial customers in a variety of end markets. | Merged with ISA Fire and Security (Louisville, KY), a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners (Beachwood, OH) | |
| Acterra Group | Petroleum installation and storage tank manufacturing. | Sold to Brass Ring Capital | |
| Actron | Manufactures automotive diagnostic and test equipment. | Sold to SPX (Charlotte, NC) | |
| AirNet Systems | Provides passenger charter services. | Sold to Pinnacle Air (Bentonville, AR) | |
| All Pro Plumbing | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | |
| All Wound Up | Retails and markets interactive toys and novelty merchandise. | Sold to Borders Group (Ann Arbor, MI) | |
| American Consumer Products | Distributes keys, knives, gloves, and house numbers to hardware retailers. | Sold to Vista 2000 (Roswell, GA) | |
| American Consumer Products | Distributes fasteners to hardware retailers. | Sold to Pawtucket Fasteners LP (Pawtucket, RI) | |
| American Gas Group | Distributes specialty, rare, and industrial gas products globally. | Sold to Praxair (Danbury, CT) | |
| Antex of Rochester | Manufactures automotive components. | Sold to Jasco International (Rochester, NY) | |
| Applica Consumer Products (formerly Windmere Durable Holdings) | Designs, markets, and distributes small kitchen appliances and beauty products. | Sold its 50% interest in Salton-Maxim to the other 50% owners of Salton-Maxim | |
| Arco Comfort Air® Plumbing & HVAC | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | |
| Argo-Tech | Manufactures main engine fuel pumps and commercial and military airframe fuel pump and control products. | Sold to Eaton (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Argo-Tech | Manufactures main engine fuel pumps and commercial and military airframe fuel pump and control products. | Sold to Greenbriar and Vestar (New York, NY) | |
| Art Works | Sells art and posters. | Sold to Hadley House (Minneapolis, MN) | |
| Atlantic Plywood Corporation | Distributes industrial wood products and related accessories throughout several metropolitan markets in the Northeastern U.S. | Sold to Parksite Inc. (Batavia, IL) | |
| AtomicBox Logistics | Offers third party logistics services, primarily to consumer and commercial product companies. | Sold to CaseStack (Santa Monica, CA) | |
| Auburn Armature, Inc. | Provides electric motor repair services and is a wholesale distributor of electrical and related products. | Sold to AAI Acquisition, a subsidiary of Power Flo Technologies in Chapter 11 (New Hyde Park, NY) | |
| Avon Bearings | Manufactures large diameter bearings. | Sold to Kaydon (Muskegon, MI) | |
| AvTech Laboratories | Provides analytical contract research organization services to the pharmaceutical industry. | Sold to Eurofins Scientific (Nantes, France) | |
| Bettcher Industries | Manufactures patented safety gloves. | Sold to Wells Lamont (Chicago, IL) | |
| Bevcorp Industries | Provides can and bottle fillers, blenders, crowners, cappers, steamers, handling equipment, rinsers, refrigeration equipment, and deaeration systems for the beverage industry. | Sold to Itochu (Tokyo, Japan) | |
| BHS | Distributes fire and safety products. | Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) | |
| Bottle Solutions, LLC | Distributes containers and packaging products primarily serving the Eastern U.S. | Sold to Pipeline Packaging (Glenwillow, OH) | |
| Broadview Instrumentation Services, Inc. | Operates as a single-source provider of instrumentation services to diverse end markets, offering in-house and on-site accredited calibration, repair services, and program management. | Sold to Trescal, a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity (Toronto, Canada) | |
| Brooks Equipment | Distributes fire and safety products. | Sold to Freeman Spogli (New York, NY) | |
| Buckeye Sports Supply | Distributes outdoor sporting goods, primarily for hunting and fishing. | Sold to Acusport (Bellefontaine, OH) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding | |
| Buffalo Construction | Builds and remodels restaurants primarily for Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings. | Sold to Management (Louisville, KY) | |
| Butler HVAC, Inc. | Provides full-service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning installation and repair. | Sold to a group of private investors | |
| Cardinal Fastener | Manufactures hot forged, large diameter fasteners for the bridge and wind energy industries. | Sold to Würth Group (Künzelsau, Germany) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding | |
| Century Equipment | Provides quality products, customer care, and service to home owners, golf courses, landscaping contractors, sports fields, governmental entities, and commercial and industrial organizations. | Sold to Jerry Pate Company (Pensacola, FL) | |
| Century Foods International | Designs, processes, and distributes whey protein products for the sports nutrition industry. | Sold to Hormel Foods (Austin, MN) | |
| Ceramic Matrix | South and Central Florida’s leading authority in high end luxury natural stone and ceramic tile from Italy, Spain, and around the world. | Sold to Architectural Surfaces, a portfolio company of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) | |
| Chambers Leasing Systems, Inc. | Provides logistics for the Midwestern automotive OEM market. | Sold to Venture Express (LaVergne, TN) | |
| Chemi-Trol Chemical | Manufactures large propane and ammonia tanks. | Sold to Harsco Corporation (Camp Hill, PA) | |
| Chemi-Trol Chemical | Manufactures and distributes specialty automotive tools. | Sold to Horizon Tool (Greensboro, NC) | |
| Chemi-Trol Chemical | Manufactures and distributes fertilizers and other agricultural and turf products. | Sold to Terra International (Louisville, KY) | |
| ChemPower | Provides manufacturing, construction, and environmental services for the power generation industry. | Sold to American Eco (Houston, TX) | |
| Childers Air, Plumbing & Electric Beckley, WV | Provides plumbing, hvac and electrical services. | Sold to to Service Country a portfolio company of Grove Mountain Partners. (Atlanta, GA) | |
| ChromaScape, Inc. | Premier producer and distributor of color dispersions and additives throughout various markets in North America and Europe. | Sold to Capital Partners (Norwalk, CT) | |
| Cleason Companies | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Sold to Management (Newark, NY) | |
| Cleveland Indians | Professional baseball team. | Sold to Dolan Family (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Cleveland Lumberjacks | Professional hockey team. | Sold to Hank Kassigkeit (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Climate Solutions | Provides commercial HVAC and plumbing services | Sold to Pueblo Mechanical (Phoenix, AZ), a portfolio company of Huron Capital (Detroit, MI) | |
| Coating Excellence International | Manufactures packaging products. | Sold to Mason Wells (Milwaukee, WI) | |
| Coldwater Veneer | Produces American hardwood veneer. | Sold to Industrial Opportunity Partners (Evanston, IL) | |
| Columbiana Boiler Company | Manufactures kettles for the galvanizing and other hot dip coating industries, as well as pressure vessels and transportation packages for the chemical industry. | Sold to CBC Ventures (Cleveland, OH) | |
| CPI Engineering Services | Formulates and manufactures synthetic lubricants for the refrigeration and air compressor industries. | Sold to Lubrizol Corporation (Cleveland, OH) | |
| CPI Holdings | Provides printing, packaging, fulfillment, and database marketing services. | Sold to Complemar Partners (Rochester, NY) | |
| Crafmaster Hardware, LLC | Leading wholesale distributor of commercial repair and replacement door hardware to institutional end users through North America. | Sold to KENDALL (Mendota Heights, MN) a portfolio company of Keystone Capital (Chicago, IL) | |
| Cumberland Gap | Produces hams, sausages, and other specialty packaged meats. | Sold to Smithfield Foods (Smithfield, VA) | |
| Dantom Systems | Provides professional credit and collection letter formats, forms, and envelopes for first-class USPS mail delivery. | Sold to Bolder Capital (Chicago, IL) | |
| DG Lift Station | Provider of lift station services. | Sold to Southern Home Services, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors. | |
| David Gray | Electrical, plumbing, heating, & air services | Sold to Southern Home Services, a portfolio company of Gryphon Investors (Maitland, FL) | |
| Dean’s Home Services (Minneapolis, MN) | Provides heating, AC, plumbing & electrical services. | Sold to Redwood Services (Memphis, TN) | |
| Dexter Magnetic Technologies | Designs, engineers, and manufactures magnetic circuits, permanent magnets, magnetic assemblies, electromagnetic systems, and finished products. | Sold to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (Beverly Hills, CA) | |
| DistTech | Specializes in the design, development, and execution of supply chain solutions and offers engineered transportation solutions. | Sold to Management supported by Centerfield Capital Partners (Indianapolis, IN) and Patriot Capital (Baltimore, MD) | |
| Dots | Sells extreme value fashion apparel and accessories for women. | Sold to Irving Place Capital (New York, NY) | |
| Dots | Sells extreme value fashion apparel and accessories for women. | Sold to William Blair Capital Partners and Sawdust (Chicago, IL) | |
| Drake Manufacturing Services Co. | Manufactures branded CNC machine tool systems for the grinding market. | Sold to Uni-World Capital (New York, NY) | |
| DT Industries | Manufactures high-speed rotary presses and plastic processing machines and equipment. | Sold to Management (Hyannis, MA) | |
| DT Industries | Designs and builds proprietary machines and integrated systems utilized for packaging, liquid filling, and tube filling applications for Merrill brands. | Sold to Kinderhook Partners (Fort Lee, NJ) | |
| Duke Manufacturing | Manufactures precision-machined componenets and assemblies used predominately by the aerospace and defense sector. | Sold to Watervale Equity Partners (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Eagle-Picher | Manufactures plastic parts for exterior automotive applications. | Sold to Cambridge Industries (Detroit, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding | |
| Eagle-Picher | Manufactures highly-engineered, injection molded polyurethane seals and components. | Sold to US Farathane (Royal Oak, MI) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding | |
| Elder-Beerman Stores | Shoe retailer. | Sold to Jam Shoe Concepts (Dayton, OH) | |
| Electro-Mec | Rebuilds and distributes electric motors and parts. | Sold to Integrated Power Services (Greenville, SC) | |
| Elgin National Industries | Designs, engineers, procures, and constructs bulk material handling and processing systems for the power and mining industries. | Sold to GFI Energy Ventures (Los Angeles, CA) | |
| Empire Crane Company, LLC | Provides sales, parts and attachements, and service to the commercial crane market principally in the Northeast United States | Sold to Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. (San Leandro, CA) | |
| EmployOn | Provides online employment services. | Sold to GetTheJob (Bentonville, AR) | |
| Ennstone | Produces sand, gravel, and ready-mixed concrete. | Sold to Lindy Paving (Pittsburgh, PA) | |
| Enovate | Designs, manufactures, and supplies mobile and wall-mounted clinical workstation solutions for the healthcare industry. | Merged with Stinger Medical (Murfressboro, TN), a portfolio company of Riverside Partners (Boston, MA) | |
| Essef Corporation | Manufactures plastic blow-mold tooling. | Sold to Management (Shell Rock, IA) | |
| ETI Tech, Inc. | Designs and manufactures electro-mechanical flight hardware and ground support equipment for aerospace and military industries. | Sold to Soaring Pine Capital (Birmingham, MI) | |
| Evolution Ag, LLC | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Sold Certain Locations to Bane Welker Equipment (Ladoga, IN) | |
| Evolution Ag, LLC | Operates a leading chain of agricultural and power equipment dealerships, parts, and service centers throughout Ohio. | Sold Certain Locations to Farmers Equipment (OH) | |
| F. Schumacher | Offers fabrics, wallpaper, and a multitude of coordinated home fashions under the Waverly home furnishings brand. | Sold to Ellery Homestyles (New York, NY) | |
| Ferro Corporation | Provides fluids used in the production of electronic components based on ceramic and quartz substrates, and advanced polishing fluids used for flat glass, precision optics, ophthalmic lenses, and specialty plastics. | Sold to LaPel Solutions (Vancouver, WA) | |
| Fetch-A-Tech | Provides heating, air conditioning, and plumbing services. | Sold to Service Champions, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners (New York, NY) | |
| Flame Control Coatings, LLC | Manufactures fire retardant, heat resistant, and specialty coatings. Its brands include Flame Control and TemperKote. | Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (The Netherlands) | |
| Furnace Parts | Manufactures and distributes industrial thermocouples and temperature sensing devices and accessories. | Sold to Ultra Electronics (Middlesex, England) | |
| Global Security Glazing | Designs and manufactures institutional security and custom architectural glass and glazing products. | Sold to Grey Mountain Partners (Boulder, CO) | |
| Group Transportation Services | Provides transportation management solutions. | Sold to Thayer Hidden Creek (Washington, DC) | |
| Harrington Holdings a.k.a. Edgepark Surgical | Markets and distributes healthcare products to managed care beneficiaries, home care supply providers, and healthcare professionals. | Sold to The Jordan Company (New York, NY) | |
| Hayes Brake | Designs, tests, manufactures, and sells non-automotive custom-engineered brake systems. | Sold to Nautic Partners (Providence, RI) | |
| Hero Plumbing, Heating, Cooling, Drains, Ducts & Electrical | Provides plumbing, heating, cooling, drain, duct and electrical work. | Type: M&A Sale Details: Sold to APEX Service Partners, a porfolio company of Alpine Investors (San Francisco, CA) | |
| Hi TecMetal Group | Supplies brazing, thermal processing, and welding services and products. | Sold to IMT York and IMT Duncan (York, SC) | |
| Highland International | Forrmulates heat resistant and corrosion protection coatings with expertise in high-temperature coatings. | Sold to Seal For Life, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners (The Netherlands) | |
| HMI | Manufactures automotive stampings. | Sold to Rhone Capital (New York, NY) | |
| Horizon Organic | Processes and markets branded organic milk and other dairy products. | Sold to Dean Foods (Dallas, TX) | |
| Hotwork Combustion Services | Provides industrial combustion services, including heat-ups, dry-outs, and cooldowns on all types of refractory-lined structures. | Sold to TGC Acquisition (Philadelphia, PA) | |
| Hutchins Automotive Supply | Distributes automotive aftermarket supplies. | Sold to General Parts (CarQuest) (Raleigh, NC) | |
| I&K Distributors | Manufactures, sells, and distributes branded and private label potato salads, cheese, and other foods. | Sold to SCIS Food Services, nka Chef Solutions (Wheeling, IL) | |
| Interfuse Manufacturing Clarence, PA | Provides quality fabricated, welded and machined parts. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Renew Manufacturing | |
| International Specialty Alloys | Provides high quality and high purity custom metal alloys and custom metal alloy powders to the aerospace, electronics, and high-performance industrial industries. | Sold to Kennametal (Latrobe, PA) | |
| Interstate Southwest | Manufactures and markets large-scale forgings. | Sold to Ellwood Texas Forge (Houston, TX) | |
| Jobs.ch | Provides online employment services. | Sold to Tiger Global Management (New York, NY) | |
| Johnson Oil Company | Owns and operates convenience stores that offer gasoline and grocery products. | Sold to Couche-Tard (Laval, Quebec, Canada) | |
| Kennametal | Manufactures and markets power tool accessories for do-it-yourself, contractor, and industrial markets globally. | Sold to Cal SDI (Pomona, CA) | |
| Kennametal | Provides integrated supply chain and logistics management to large and medium-sized metalworking plants. | Sold to Ferguson Enterprises, a subsidiary of Wolseley (Zug, Switzerland) | |
| Lancaster Colony | Manufactures tabletop and decorative glassware containers for the retail, private label, candle, and floral markets. | Sold to Monomoy Capital Partners (New York, NY) | |
| Len the Plumber, LLC | Provides full-service residential plumbing solutions, including drain cleaning, main line clog removal, sewer backups & reapirs, sewer line, water heater, heating system, water line, gas line, and sump pump services. | Sold to Thompson Street Capital Partners (St. Louis, MO) | |
| Lexi-Comp, Inc. | Synthesizes medical information to provide point of care clinical decision support. | Sold to Wolters Kluwer (Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands) | |
| Lighthouse Insurance Group, LLC | Offers health insurance products, Medicare plans nad advisory solutions to families and individuals throughout the United States. | Sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Rolling Meadows, IL) | |
| Lower Lakes Towing | Provides bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes region. | Sold to Rand Acquisition (New York, NY) | |
| Mainstream Electric, Heating, Cooling and Plumbing | Provides residential HVAC installation and repair, plumbing, electrical, excavation and drain services in the Greater Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, markets. | Sold to Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Mark Concepts | Fabricates aluminum and steel components and provides subassemblies for the heavy duty truck and related industries. | Sold to Mancor Canada (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) | |
| Mason Structural Steel, LLC | Provides home lifestyle and building products to Ohio and the Great Lakes Region | Sold to Mason Steel Holdings, LLC (Walton Hills, OH) | |
| MCR | Provides non-ferrous processing services. | Sold to Copper & Brass Sales, a division of Thyssenkrupp Materials NA (Southfield, MI) | |
| Miami Valley Steel Service | Provides steel processing services and distributes finished products. | Sold to Esmark (Chicago Heights, IL) | |
| Neway Stamping & Manufacturing Company, Inc. | Produces close tolerance, short-run custom, precision metal stampings. | Sold to Bowden Capital Group (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Nuclear Security Services | Provides security solutions, including alarm and video assessment systems for the nuclear industry. | Sold to G4S (Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom) | |
| Ohio Bar Review | Provides Ohio Bar training review courses. | Sold to Harcourt General (Chestnut Hill, MA) | |
| Ohio Blow Pipe | Provides premier recycling, environmental, and health/safety material handling solutions to various markets in North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. | Sold to CapitalWorks (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Ohio Tool Works, LLC a portfolio company of Artemis Capital Partners | Designs and builds both standard and custom honing technology for a diverse and growing base of global customers across the industrial, aerospace, defense, and metal working industries. | Sold to Hardinge, Inc., a portfolio company of Privet Fund Management, LLC (Atlanta, GA) | |
| Palladian Health, LLC | Leading technology-enabled provider of outsourced musculoskeletal care and pain management services. | Sold to eviCore healthcare, LLC (Blufton, SC) | |
| Paul W. Essig, Inc. | Provides full service residential plumbing and HVAC services | Sold to P1 Service Group, a portfolio company of River Sea Network and Edgewater Funds (Chicago, IL) | |
| PECo Process Equipment | Specializes in precise, verified machining, grinding and fabricating of large metal products. | Sold to Lincoln Electric (Cleveland, OH) | |
| PJAX Freight System | Provides less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services. | Sold to Vitran (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) | |
| PreEmptive Solutions LLC | Provides application protection solutions to make apps and applications more resistant to data and ip theft, hacking and tampering. | Sold to Idera, Inc. (Houston, TX) | |
| Progressive Furniture | Manufactures, imports, and markets moderately-priced household wood furniture. | Sold to Sauder Woodworking (Archbold, OH) | |
| R.W. Sidley, Inc. | Leading building products manufacturer for the North American energy and infrastructure markets. | Sold to CXT Inc. (Spokane, WA) a subsidiary of LBFoster (Pittsburgh, PA) | |
| Radiant Plumbing Services, Inc. | Offers premier home plumbing and HVAC service to the greater Austin area. | Sold to Riverside Company (New York, NY) | |
| Rainbow Rentals | Rents and sells home electronics, furniture, appliances, and computers to the general public. | Sold to Rent-A-Center (Plano, TX) | |
| RB&W | Manufactures and markets cold-forming technology and produces cold-formed parts. | Sold to Park-Ohio (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Regional Diagnostics | Operates outpatient diagnostic imaging center chains in the United States. | Sold to Trivest Partners (Coral Gables, FL) | |
| Rebmann | Provides plumbing, heating, and air conditioning services. | Sold to Northwinds Services Group, a portfolio company of TruArc Partners (New York, NY) | |
| Reynolds | Supplies products and services to the water and wastewater industries. | Sold to Layne Christiansen (Kansas City, KS) | |
| Roden Electrical | Distributes electrical products. | Sold to Kendall Electric (Portage, MI) | |
| Rossborough Supply Company | Manufactures magnesium and aluminum automotive parts. | Sold to Monomoy Capital Partners (New York, NY) | |
| Royal Appliance | Manufactures and markets handheld and upright floor cleaners and replacement parts. | Sold to Techtronic Industries (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) | |
| Royal Appliance | Provides in-home anti-telemarketing services. | Sold to VTech Holdings (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong) | |
| RWC, Inc. | Provides railroad weed, grass and brush control. | Type: M&A, Sale Details: Sold to Ferrovia, a portfolio company of Auxo Investment Partners. | |
| Scott Fetzer | Manufactures vacuum cleaners and home cleaning accessories. | Sold to Right Lane Industries (Chicago, IL) | |
| Service Professor, Inc. | Provides residential plumbing, electrical, heating, cooling, drains, sewer, and duct-cleaning services to West and Southwest Michigan. | Sold to Calera Capital (San Francisco, CA) | |
| Shareholder of TandemLife | Manufactures the world’s first FDA-cleared and CE-marked short-term extracorporeal circulatory support platform. | Sold to LivaNova, PLC (London, England) | |
| Signature Inns | Owns and operates hotels. | Sold to Jameson Inns (Nashville, TN) | |
| SMR Holdings, LLC | Provides an array of software-driven solutions, including data destruction, decommissioning, redeployment, remarketing and recycling. | Sold to New Capital Partners (Birmingham, AL) | |
| Solar Flex Rack | A solar products and services company. | Sold to Hanwha Solutions | |
| SOSS® Door Hardware Pioneer, OH | Designs and manufactures concealed door hardware. | Sold to Schlage Lock Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Allegion plc (Dublin, IRL) | |
| Spartan Stores | Distributes products to convenience stores. | Sold to H.T. Hackney (Knoxville, TN) | |
| Specialty Air Technologies, Inc. | Blends and packages “high-end” pure gases and mixtures for several growing niche markets in North America, Latin America, and Asia. | Sold to Tech Air (Danbury, CT) | |
| Stylin’ Concepts | Distributes and sells truck accessories, SUV accessories, and performance parts to consumers. | Sold to Riverside Company (Cleveland, OH) | |
| Sudbury | Provides storage and processing services for the oil and chemical industries. | Sold to KMCO (Crosby, TX) | |
| Superior Specialty Gas Services, Inc. | Distributes specialty gas mixtures for the North American hydrocarbon market. | Sold to Airgas USA (Radnor, PA) | |
| The Freedonia Group, Inc. | Leading technology-enabled provider of branded market research to the global marketplace. | Sold to MarketResearch.com (Rockville, MD) | |
| T-Mark Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric | Provides plumbing and HVAC services. | Sold to Sila Services a portfolio company of Morgan Stanley (Buffalo, NY) | |
| Tomlinson | Manufactures and provides equipment and components for the global food and beverage sector | Sold to Crown Brands, LLC, a portfolio company of Centre Lane Partners (Lincolnshire, IL) | |
| TPC Metals, Inc. | Operates as a metal service center and provides tin mill, light gauge cold rolled, galvanized, and aluminum products. | Sold to Lakeside Metals (Willowbrook, IL) | |
| Tyden Group | Provides cargo security and product identification traceability solutions. | Sold to Crimson Investment (Palo Alto, CA) | |
| VanDeMark Chemical, Inc. | Produces specialty, intermediate, and catalyst chemicals utilizing phosgenation chemistry. | Sold to Uni-World Capital (New York, NY) and Brightwood Capital (New York, NY) | |
| Verne & Ellsworth Hann, Inc. | Provides heating, cooling and plumbing services | Sold to Heartland Home Services, Inc, (Grand Rapids, MI) a portfolio company of The Jordan Company (New York, NY). | |
| Waterlink | Provides products, equipment, systems, and services related to activated carbon and its uses for water and air purification, solvent recovery, odor control, and chemical processing. | Sold to Calgon Carbon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding | |
| Yonanas | Consumer brand kitchen appliance that enables consumers to enjoy the taste and feel of soft serve ice cream using only 100% real fruit without fat, dairy, or added sugar. | Sold to The Legacy Companies (Weston, FL) | |
| Zengine | Provides e-business software and services. | Sold to MCSi (Dayton, OH) | |
| Zephyr Solutions, Inc. | Provides logistics and supply chain management of industrial gases serving retail and industrial customers throughout North America. | Sold to Aterian Investment Partners (New York, NY) |
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