ACG Boston welcomes new member Mark Gerlach of Maxus Capital Group, LLC:
Maxus Capital is an equipment Leasing and Finance company focused on financing middle-market credits with a challenged past.  The company is geared toward financing hard asset manufacturing, industrial and transportation assets.

Mercator Group LLC is pleased to announce that Carrier Corporation, a unit of United Technologies Corporation, has acquired Environmental Market Solutions, Inc., an environmental and green building consulting company with offices in Washington, D.C., Missouri, Beijing and Shanghai.  Mercator Group initiated the transaction and acted as the exclusive advisor to EMSI.  Terms of the transaction [...]

The Wall Street Journal blogged last week ("Leveraged Lending: The Hangover Wasn’t Worth the Buzz," Feb. 19) that large underwriting banks would write off more from their remaining holdings than they had made in fees during 2007 from this business. In conversations with folks who had worked for some of these investment banks, I wondered [...]

ACG Boston welcomes new member Kevin Sieck of Sieck & Associates, LLC:
We offer a series of Corporate development services designed for the technology and life science sectors.  At the core is our focus on developing partnerships – from business development/marketing partnerships to stakeholder relationships to mergers and acquisitions.  All of our services are transaction-focused and [...]

It’s not even March and the madness has begun. Now it’s municipals that are feeling fouled and close to out of the game.
In the world we used to live in, governments and institutions would issue debt for long-term projects. They could issue long-term bonds at a tax-free fixed rate that would hold steady until [...]

ACG Boston welcomes new member Stephen Eccles, Managing Director, Corporate Development of TRU Holdings, Inc.:
TRU Holdings, Inc.'s strategy is to build a diverse group of leading RF and microwave technology companies focused on the design, development and manufacture of innovative solutions across the space, defense and commercial markets.

ACG Boston welcomes new member Samuel Dinnar of Avidyne Corporation:
Samuel leads strategic growth and acquisitions for Avidyne, a Boston-based aerospace electronics and software for light civilian aircraft.  He has strong experience as an executive in engineering, programs, sales and marketing, as high-growth company Board Member and hi-tech Venture Capitalist.

ACG Boston welcomes new member John Cassell of Spring Consulting Group:
Spring Consulting Group creates balance sheet improvement and added value for their clients' M&A transactions by analyzing and restructuring the pre- and post-retirement employee benefit liabilities of target acquisitions or existing portfolio companies.

With $152 billion in loan commitments looking for homes, is it any wonder that underwriting banks have thrown etiquette to the wind in what may become a mad scramble to free up their soon-to-be-bulging balance sheets?
Here is how the underwriting and syndication dance is supposed to work: a consortium of underwriting banks commits to a [...]

Audax, together with Questex, acquired FierceMarkets from private owners. The Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc. advised FierceMarkets.
FierceMarkets is a leading business to business media company operating a portfolio of 18 email newsletters and websites, and associated webinars and events, serving the Telecom & Digital Media, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Enterprise IT and Finance industries. The acquisition further [...]