A look at Mergers and Acquisitions in B2B this week…
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Grey Group, the global marketing communications company, today announced it has acquired Tank, a leading full-service healthcare and consumer agency with offices in Montreal.
Tank will retain its name and become part of Grey Group Canada which already operates in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.  Marc Lanouette, President of Tank, will become CEO of Grey Group Canada.
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Vistra, one of the world’s leading corporate service providers of international incorporations, trust, fiduciary, and fund administration services, has announced the acquisition of the Jordans Group from its current shareholder, The West of England Trust Limited.
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Chicago-based private equity firm Highlands Ventures has increased its portfolio with the acquisition of Sonoma Consulting, Inc. Sonoma Consulting, founded in 2011, specializes in IT Consulting and Executive Search and will be merged with current portfolio company, Halo Group, LLC.
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Syncsort Incorporated, a leader in Big Iron to Big Data solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., announced that it has completed the acquisition of Trillium Software, a leading global provider of data quality solutions, from Harte Hanks, Inc. The combination will enable customers to seamlessly harness all their valuable data assets for greater business insights by applying high-performance and scalable data movement, transformation, profiling and quality across the most demanding enterprise environments.
