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Area Wide Protective (“AWP”), America’s leading safety company supporting utility, broadband and infrastructure upgrades, and expansion, has entered into definitive agreements to acquire two leading traffic control providers: MOTPlans, LLC, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and CrossRoads, LP, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The combined company will serve national, regional, and local customers through a network of 143 facilities across 28 states and eastern Canada.
Translink Corporate Finance in France and in the Netherlands acted as the exclusive advisor to Barentz on the acquisition of nutraceuticals distributor, Natural.
Barentz International, a leading global life science ingredients distributor, acquired Natural, a supplier of premium, naturally sourced, herbal, and functional ingredient solutions for the nutraceuticals industry in France and Europe. The Verrières-en-Anjou (Angers) based company operates a customer-focused distribution model, with a relentless focus on delivering (and securing supply of) a unique portfolio of nutraceutical ingredients solutions to brands and CDMO-customers at highest service-levels.
The Catalan business group Briolf, comprising of several industrial companies in the field of specialty chemicals, has acquired 100% of Areco Italia spa.
Partner, Mauro Bussotti and analyst, Matteo Buttinelli from Translink Corporate Finance in Italy and partner, Narciso Marfa from Translink Corporate Finance in Spain assisted Areco Italia in the role of financial advisor on the sale of the entire share capital of the company to Briolf Group. A legal team from the law firm Laways coordinated by the partner Rocco Rosa supported Areco Italia in the transaction.
Financing is a major factor in all mergers and acquisition transactions, especially in buy outs, and is an important driver of valuations.
Companies looking to buy businesses through third party financing, or to have a minority or majority sponsor onboard, currently have to deal with higher financing costs and lower valuations. This is because of the persistent volatile macro-economic climate, which includes the issue of inflation, the Russian/ Ukraine conflict, with all of them causing rising interest rates. These all directly impact the M&A industry.
The outcome of the Tamtron Group OYJ’s initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq First North Growth Market Finland was announced on November 24, 2022. The IPO exceeded expectations and the company received the capital it applied for in the listing.
City Rise Safety and Bay Area Traffic Solutions (BATS), two of the Bay Area’s most established traffic control solutions providers, announced their merger. The deal creates Northern California’s largest, full-service provider of traffic control services.
Translink Corporate Finance in US Dinan advised ENTRUST Solutions Group, a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company, on the acquisition of Magellan Advisors.
ENTRUST Solutions Group are excited to enter into this partnership with Magellan Advisors who work closely with utilities, municipalities, co-ops, and tribal organisations to build transformational fiber and broadband networks.
Translink Corporate Finance acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the company and the owners of Suora Broadcast in the successful transaction with DMC Production.
Suora Broadcast Oy, a specialist in live sports productions, has been acquired by a Swedish family-owned company. Through the acquisition, Suora Broadcast Oy becomes part of the organisation of DMC Production (DMC), owned by Stena AB Group, one of Sweden's largest family companies.
Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc (AIM: EYE), is a leading SaaS technology company that develops digital connections enabling personalised, real-time marketing through coupons, loyalty, apps, subscriptions, and gift services.
Eagle Eye Solutions group conditionally agreed to acquire the entire share capital of Untie Nots and its subsidiaries, a leading business based in France providing large retailers with AI powered promotion and gamification SaaS software solutions.
Unifeye Vision Partners (“UVP”), a leading network of comprehensive eye care providers, announced the completion of a strategic partnership with Eye Care of San Diego, based in Mission Hills, California. This represents UVP’s ninth practice partnership in the state of California and the 13th member of the growing UVP community.