Freestar Acquires MPW Digital's Ad Management Business

Abry Partners Invests in Freestar

January 6, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Boston-based private equity firm Abry Partners made a strategic minority investment in Freestar, a Phoenix-area ad monetization and ad tech company. The growth capital will support Freestar's product and technology development, expansion of services to publishers, e-commerce sites and app developers, and pursuit of strategic acquisitions while existing shareholders retain majority ownership.

Welocalize Acquires SearchStar

June 12, 2019

Marketing & Advertising

Welocalize has acquired SearchStar, a Bath-based digital media buying and analytics agency, to deepen its digital marketing performance capabilities, including paid search, programmatic media buying, and analytics. The acquisition integrates SearchStar with Welocalize’s multilingual content and data transformation platform to better serve clients running global, multilingual digital campaigns.

Steward Partners Acquires Freedom Street Partners

November 16, 2023

Wealth Management

Steward Partners Global Advisory has agreed to acquire the wealth management business of FSP Enterprise LLC (d/b/a Freedom Street Partners). The deal brings Freedom Street's network of 38 financial advisors and $3.2 billion in client assets into Steward Partners as the foundation of a new "owned business" division to expand Steward's advisor-acquisition and succession capabilities and accelerate regional expansion.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation Acquires Pacific Star Communications (PacStar)

September 24, 2020

Aerospace & Defense

Curtiss-Wright Corporation agreed to acquire Pacific Star Communications, Inc. (PacStar) for $400 million in cash. The acquisition adds PacStar's rugged tactical communications hardware and IQ-Core network management software to Curtiss-Wright's Defense segment, expanding its battlefield networking capabilities and expected to be accretive to adjusted EPS in the first full year.

The Marketing Practice Acquires Campaign Stars

April 27, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

The Marketing Practice (TMP), a Horizon Capital-backed B2B marketing agency, has acquired ABX specialist Campaign Stars to strengthen its account-based experience (ABX) capabilities and further expand its US presence. The deal is an add-on acquisition to TMP’s growing platform as it scales its productised, on-demand ABX offering for technology clients.

BrandStar Acquires Britton Marketing & Design Group (BMDG)

February 1, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

BrandStar, a Deerfield Beach, Florida-based vertically integrated production and marketing agency, has acquired BMD Agency, LLC (dba Britton Marketing & Design Group) of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The transaction closed on February 1, 2024, with Generational Group advising the seller. BrandStar said the acquisition will expand its creative, branding and full-service marketing capabilities.