UCG & BLR Scooped up by Leeds Equity

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Leeds Equity Partners, is merging four companies to focus exclusively on information and compliance solutions. The four companies will form Simplify Compliance Holdings LLC, which will be based in Brentwood, Tennessee, outside Nashville.

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Ad Tech Companies Shouldn’t Bet On A Chinese Buyout

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According to JEGI, deal valuation rose 75% across the board in the past year, driven in part by media and marketing-sector acquisitions such as Microsoft’s $26 billion deal to buy LinkedIn and Dentsu Aegis’s $1.5 billion purchase of Merkle.

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