Blue Ant Media Acquires Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc.

Thunderbird LLC Acquires Bright Plastics Inc.

July 19, 2022

Manufacturing

Thunderbird LLC has acquired Bright Plastics Inc., an injection-molding manufacturer based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The deal adds Bright Plastics’ Class 7 ISO-compliant clean room, 67,000- and 103,000-square-foot facilities and more than 160 employees to Thunderbird’s portfolio, expanding its plastics manufacturing and medical/industrial production capabilities.

Thunderbird LLC Acquires MPR Plastics Inc.

May 17, 2022

Manufacturing

Thunderbird LLC has acquired MPR Plastics Inc., a precision injection-molding and contract plastics manufacturer based in Elgin, Illinois. The deal adds MPR’s 38,000 sq ft facility, 23 injection molding machines and ~80 U.S. staff to Thunderbird’s manufacturing portfolio—complementing its high-volume capabilities at Impact Molding and expanding support for medical, aerospace, defense, transportation and high-tech OEMs.

Medallia Acquires Thunderhead

January 20, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Medallia, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Thunderhead, a leader in journey orchestration and real-time interaction management. The acquisition will integrate Thunderhead’s ONE platform into Medallia Experience Cloud to enable individualized, every-channel customer journeys at scale; the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of the fiscal year.

TransPerfect Acquires Blu Digital Group

March 24, 2025

Media & Entertainment

TransPerfect has acquired Blu Digital Group, a Burbank-based provider of digital media services and cloud-based content distribution software. Blu Digital Group will operate as a division of TransPerfect Media, combining Blu's SaaS products and automation technologies with TransPerfect's AI-driven localization and global language services to expand media localization and distribution capabilities.

thunder::tech Acquires Silent Partners Media Group

December 1, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

thunder::tech, a Cleveland-based full-service marketing agency, has acquired Silent Partners Media Group, a New York City–founded digital design, development and production agency. The deal brings additional creative, UX and technical digital capabilities and middle-market/enterprise clients (including Scott's Miracle-Gro) into thunder::tech to accelerate capability and client-roster expansion.

Antin Infrastructure Partners Becomes Majority Shareholder in Blue Elephant Energy AG

August 2, 2022

Renewable Energy

Antin Infrastructure Partners' Flagship Fund V will become the majority shareholder of Hamburg-based renewable energy platform Blue Elephant Energy AG to support the company's growth and international expansion. Blue Elephant Energy, which operates c.1.3 GW across 67 solar and 13 wind power plants in eight countries, will retain its founding and major shareholders while leveraging Antin's capital and infrastructure expertise to scale generation capacity.