Jordan Knauff & Company Named Finalist for the 21st Annual M&A Advisor Awards

Middle-market investment bank Jordan Knauff & Company (JKC) is pleased to announce that it has been named a Finalist in three categories for the 21^st Annual M&A Advisor Awards for its work with Preco, Inc. (Preco) and Ácies Group LLC (Ácies). The final winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in New York City on November 15. The Finalists will be judged by an independent panel of industry experts.

JKC was named a Finalist in the following categories:

• For its work in the acquisition of Preco by Argosy Private Equity
  • 2022 Industrials Deal of the Year ($25 million to $50 million)
  • 2022 Private Equity Deal of the Year ($25 million to $50 million)

• For its work in the capital raise for Ácies Fund II, L.P.
  • 2022 Equity Financing Deal of the Year

Preco is an innovative designer and manufacturer of advanced manufacturing and automation systems, as well as a provider of process development and contract manufacturing services. With operations in Lenexa, Kansas; Somerset, Wisconsin; and Nås, Sweden; Preco manufactures advanced automation systems that utilize industrial laser processing systems, flat bed and rotary die cutting systems, and material handling automation to achieve increased precision and throughput while providing labor and material savings for its customers.

Ácies formed Ácies Fund II, L.P. (the Fund) to finance the acquisition of industrial service facilities in the Midwest and Southeast. Based in Markham, Illinois, Ácies is a real estate investment firm specializing in logistics properties. The Fund was formed to capitalize on an investment philosophy within specific, institutionally-overlooked subcategories of logistics real estate that stand at the center of e-commerce growth in the United States. The Fund targets three subcategories of logistics real estate that are critical components of the overloaded “middle mile” and “last mile” of the e-commerce supply chain – flex warehouses, regional distribution centers and industrial service facilities.

“These Finalist recognitions highlight JKC’s creative solutions and unmatchable experience in the middle-market. We are immensely proud of both the Preco and Ácies transactions and the teams who worked on them,” stated Mr. G. Cook Jordan, Jr., Co-founder and Managing Principal at JKC.

About The M&A Advisor

The M&A Advisor was founded in 1998 to publish insights and intelligence on mergers and acquisitions. Over the past twenty-four years, they have established and now serve a  worldwide organization of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and corporate finance professionals. Today, The M&A Advisor recognizes excellence, honors achievement, presents thought leadership and facilitates connections among the world’s leading transaction professionals. For more information, please visit www.maadvisor.com.

About Jordan Knauff & Company

Jordan Knauff & Company is a knowledgeable and experienced provider of a comprehensive line of investment banking services to private companies. Our services include selling companies, raising debt and equity capital, acquisition advisory services, and strategic business services to companies in a variety of industries, including among others, business services, energy logistics and distribution, flow control (pumps, valves, filtration), plastic injection molding, healthcare services, and building products and services. Typical transaction sizes range from $10 million to $300 million in total consideration.

Mr. G. Cook Jordan, Jr., Co-founder and Managing Principal, has over 30 years of private equity and investment banking experience, and seven years of executive and operations experience in middle-market companies. JKC’s entire professional team have spent their careers in the middle-market and offer that expertise and knowledge to their clients. It is their mission to provide the best available transaction advisory services along with in-depth industry specific research to middle-market companies and the entrepreneurs who lead them. For more information, please visit www.jordanknauff.com. JKC is a member of FINRA.

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