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The trending private equity investment sectors for February 2018 are highlighted below with a few example transactions.
Healthcare
Invested in ReMed Recovery Care Centers (Paoli, PA), a national provider of treatment for individuals with traumatic brain injuries.
Acquired Clearway Pain Solutions Institute (Pensacola, FL), a provider of multidisciplinary interventional pain management services.
Invested in ProgenyHealth (Plymouth Meeting, PA), a company focused exclusively on neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) utilization and case management.
Safety
Acquired Convergint Technologies (Schaumburg, IL), an organization that designs, installs, and services integrated building systems including electronic security, fire alarm, and life safety systems.
Acquired Safety Technology Holdings (Farmington Hills, MI), a provider of safety test equipment design and manufacturing, specialty fiber, custom engineered stress & strain solutions and software modelling.
Empeiria Capital Partners & Huron Capital
Invested in B&B Roadway Security Solutions (McKinney, TX), a designer and manufacturer of roadway safety and perimeter security solutions.
Sales & Marketing
Acquired Søgemedier (Arhus, Denmark), a digital marketing agency providing consulting, search engine optimization (SEO), Google Ad words, Facebook pages and Ads, websites, and web shops to SMEs.
Main Street Capital Corporation
Acquired Direct Marketing Solutions (Portland, OR), a provider of end-to-end, omni-channel direct marketing campaigns including strategy, creative design, direct mail production/fulfillment, and digital marketing.
Acquired Avtex (Bloomington, MN), a customer experience (CX) focused consulting and technology company that provides design, implementation, and ongoing support of solutions in the CX ecosystem, including contact center and CRM solutions.
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