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Pittsylvania anticipates $7M investment by 2 businesses
In a pair of announcements Wednesday, Pittsylvania County officials celebrated an expected total investment of $7 million and more than 40 jobs by two businesses. A paper manufacturer’s Pittsylvania County location is expanding and a Danville medical equipment company is moving to the county, state and county officials announced Wednesday. Netherlands-based paper honeycomb producer Axxor [&h[...]
The Acacia Group acquires Atlanta consulting firm
Tysons-based private equity firm The Acacia Group announced Wednesday that it had acquired Atlanta-based technology, staffing and consulting firm The Baer Group. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The Baer Group will form a new platform business within the Acacia platform. “We see immediate opportunities for Baer to support the clients of current […]
Cortland to invest $1B in Arlington apartments
Cortland, an Atlanta-based multifamily real estate investment, development and management company, will invest $1 billion in four Arlington apartment communities totaling more than 1,500 units, marking the company’s reentry into the metro Washington, D.C., market. The four properties include the 331-unit Aubrey apartment building — rebranded by Cortland as Cortland Rosslyn — and the 534-[...]
Carlyle Group to acquire ManTech for $4.2B
Herndon-based ManTech International Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by The Carlyle Group for approximately $4.2 billion, the tech contractor announced Monday. In the all-cash transaction, ManTech shareholders will receive $96 per share in cash, a 32% premium to ManTech’s closing share price of $72.82 on Feb. 2, which was the […]
UVA Health, Focused Ultrasound launch $8M center
University of Virginia Health and Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation invested $8 million into launching the Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center, the health system announced Wednesday. “We are excited to announce this powerful multidisciplinary and interdepartmental collaboration effort with the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and the commonwealth of Virginia to expand t[...]
Cobalt Real Estate Solutions names new CIO
Virginia Beach-based investment fund Cobalt Real Estate Solutions has named Tim McCann as its chief investment officer, the company announced Tuesday. Cobalt, an affiliate of Divaris Real Estate Inc., is seeking to raise $50 million in equity to add $150 million in properties to its portfolio. and McCann will seek investment opportunities, develop investment strategy […]
SPAC-ulative finance
One of the hottest investment tools in the past year and a half has imploded. But don’t give up on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs as these peculiar financial structures are called, industry experts say. Also called blank-check companies, SPACs are here to stay, but not necessarily at the high-flying levels of 2020 and […]
Mac Curtis joins Blue Delta Capital Partners as venture fellow
Mac Curtis, the former chairman, president and CEO of Perspecta Inc., has joined McLean-based government services equity firm Blue Delta Capital Partners as a venture fellow. Herndon-based national security contractor Peraton Inc. acquired Chantilly-based federal IT contractor Perspecta in May for $7.1 billion. Curtis took Perspecta public in 2018 by merging his company, Vencore Inc., […]
Finance | Insurance
JOHN ASBURY PRESIDENT AND CEO, ATLANTIC UNION BANKSHARES, RICHMOND A native of Radford who graduated from Virginia Tech and received his MBA at William & Mary, Asbury now leads the largest regional bank headquartered in Virginia. Atlantic Union, which employs 1,839 people in Virginia, reported $677 million in revenue in 2020. It also has $19.6 […]
Arlington supply chain tech company joins unicorn club
Following its $100 million Series C financing round, Arlington-based supply chain management technology company Interos Inc. has been valued at $1 billion, reaching coveted unicorn status. Led by CEO Jennifer Bisceglie, Interos is one of 74 female-led unicorns, according to Crunchbase. Worldwide, there are more than 770 unicorn companies. Interos’ cloud platform uses artificial intelligence [...]
MicroStrategy stock jumps 29% after Tesla bitcoin purchase
Following Tesla’s announcement that it had purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin, Tysons-based business software company MicroStrategy Inc. — which has converted hundreds of millions in holdings to bitcoin now worth more than $3 billion — saw its stock price jump by 29% on Monday. By Monday at 4 p.m., the Nasdaq reported that MicroStrategy’s stock […]
DC Capital Partners names new partner
Alexandria-based private equity firm DC Capital Partners announced last week it has hired David O. Page as a partner. With more than 18 years of C-suite-level experience, Page currently serves as chairman of tech company The Swift Group. Page has worked alongside DC Capital Partners, which focuses on investments in the government and engineering markets, […]
