Mid-market investment bank Harris Williams & Co has advised on the sale of Production Control Services, a developer, manufacturer and provider of artificial lift products and services for the oil and gas industry, to Dover Corporation. The transaction closed on April 25, 2012 and was led by Drew Spitzer, Tiff Armstrong, Matt White and Chris [...]

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has acquired McKenzie Sports Products, a manufacturer and distributor of taxidermy supplies. McKenzie was a portfolio company of Gridiron Capital. Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive advisor to McKenzie. The transaction was led by the firm’s Richmond and Minneapolis offices. PRESS RELEASE Harris Williams & Co., a preeminent middle [...]

Seaboard Holdings, a portfolio company of Industrial Growth Partners (IGP) has been sold to The Weir Group for $675 million. The transaction closed on December 14, 2011. Mid-market investment bank Harris Williams & Co acted as advisor to Seaboard. Based in Houston, TX, Seaboard manufactures engineered wellhead and pressure control equipment to the oil and [...]

Harris Williams & Co., the Richmond, Va.-headquartered middle market advisor, has hired Michael Wilkins as its senior tech banker on the West Coast. Wilkins will head the company’s U.S. efforts in Internet and digital media. Prior to joining Harris Williams & Co., Wilkins was a managing director at Sagent Advisors where he co-founded the firm’s technology [...]

Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co. is announcing that it advised the clinical documentation intelligence startup Webmedx on its sale to Nuance Communications. The deal brings scale to the company’s Nuance Healthcare division, according to Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance. Customers of Atlanta-based Webmedx include more than 100 hospitals, including Bon Secours Health System and [...]

Harris Williams & Co. has promoted thirteen employees spread across its London, Minneapolis and Richmond offices. Tim Alexander, James Clark, Derek Lewis, Patrick McNulty and Cheairs Porter have each been promoted to managing director. Joe Conner, Brian Lucas, Francois Morin, Chris Rogers and Geoff Smith have each been promoted to director. Jershon Jones, John Klim and Luke Semple have each been promoted to vice president.

Yesterday, it was announced that Kansas-based Epiq Systems, a publicly traded company that sells software to the legal industry, as acquired rival Encore Discovery Solutions for $100 million in cash. Today, middle market advisor Harris Williams & Co., based in Richmond, Va., is announcing that it advised Encore on the deal. PRESS RELEASE: Harris Williams & Co. announces the [...]

Harris Williams & Co. hired Julien Darmon as a managing director in London. Darmon previously worked in the investment banking group of Robert W. Baird. He advised middle market clients on assignments including public and private divestments, mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions, capital raising and strategic advisory.