Mergers
Creative Planning, the Kansas City region’s fastest-growing wealth management firm over the past decade, is getting bigger: The Overland Park firm announced this morning that it had acquired Sunrise Advisors, which has nearly 600 clients and more than $700 million…
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After a federally approved merger of T-Mobile and Sprint back in February, the former headquarters of Sprint has released more than 200 employees, just two short months after the merger was officially closed in April, according to the AP. A…
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You’ve worked for years, decades perhaps, to build a business. It’s time to sell. At this point, it’s just a matter of finding the right buyer, isn’t it? Frankly, no. Because the fiscal land mine in that question is “right.”…
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AMC Theatres, which has been closed and reportedly facing bankruptcy during the COVID-19 pandemic, might look like a good bet for one of the world's biggest companies. A report came out recently that Amazon is looking to acquire the Overland…
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Lenexa-based Orbis Biosciences was purchased by New Jersey-based Adare Pharmaceuticals. Adare made the purchase to improve its tech pharma business. “The acquisition by Adare will globalize the reach of our technologies and services,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of…
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Euronet Worldwide might be based in Leawood, but most of the consumer financial services it provides, such as banking ATMs, are found overseas. That is changing with its acquisition of Dolphin Debit, a full-service ATM outsourcing company with 1,900 of…
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Overland Park-based Five Elms Capital, which invests in business-to-business software companies, has invested in an Austin, Texas-based SaaS firm. Though details about the investment amount were not released Fred Coulson, Five Elms' founder and managing partner, will take a board…
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Kansas City-based Triumph Premium Finance, which provides financial services for customers to purchase property and casualty insurance products through a network of independent insurance agency customers across the country, is being acquired by Peoples Bank, based in Ohio. Triumph recorded…
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The United Way of Greater Kansas City and the United Way of Wyandotte County are set to merge. The boards of both organizations have decided to combine on July 1 after studying the measure for a year. The United Way…
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One of the biggest deals of 2019 has closed. Shareholders of Leawood-based Tallgrass Energy, LP, have approved the $4-billion sale of the company to private-equity giant Blackstone, Spain-based energy corporation Enagas and other interests. The investors paid $22.45 each for…
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