Deerfield Agency (Edgewater-backed) Acquires Verge Scientific Communications

Edgewater-Backed Deerfield Platform Invests in Deerfield Agency

March 1, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Edgewater Growth Capital Partners IV, via its newly formed portfolio company Deerfield Pharma Services Holdings, LLC, has invested in Deerfield Agency, a healthcare marketing services firm. The investment establishes Deerfield as a platform targeting further acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and life sciences marketing space; Rick Riegel and Pat Blake joined Deerfield's board as part of the transaction.

Deerfield Agency Acquires Embedded

June 6, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

Deerfield Agency (part of Deerfield Group) has acquired Embedded, a New Jersey-based healthcare marketing and advertising firm, and folded it together with Verge Scientific Communications under the Deerfield Group brand. The deal brings Embedded’s brand strategy, planning, and creative capabilities into Deerfield’s integrated life‑sciences marketing platform, with Embedded principals joining Deerfield Group’s leadership team.

Deerfield Group Acquires Triple Threat Communications

July 17, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

Deerfield Group has acquired Triple Threat Communications (TTC), a New Jersey–based healthcare strategic marketing and communications agency. The deal expands Deerfield's strategy, creative, digital and medical communications capabilities and brings TTC owner Tim Frank into Deerfield's executive leadership to support growth across pharmaceutical, biotech and life sciences clients.

AEA Investors Acquires Verdesian Life Sciences

February 26, 2021

Agriculture

Funds managed by AEA Investors have acquired Verdesian Life Sciences from Paine Schwartz Partners. Verdesian, a Cary, North Carolina-based developer of biological, nutritional, fertilizer enhancers, seed treatment and inoculant technologies with more than 240 employees, will partner with AEA to scale organically and through strategic acquisitions and expand geographically.

Zadeh Group Acquires Verge Network Solutions

October 7, 2022

Telecommunications

Zadeh Group, a Houston-based holding company, acquired Verge Network Solutions, a telecommunications provider serving community banks, from the selling owner and his family. Verge Network Solutions, headquartered in Oklahoma City, will join Zadeh Group's portfolio of technology companies to expand its telecom and hosted communications capabilities.

WCG Acquires VeraSci

July 26, 2021

Healthcare Services

WCG acquired VeraSci, a Durham-based provider of eClinical software and specialty scientific expertise for CNS-focused clinical trials, to deepen its CNS scientific capabilities and expand remote data capture and decentralized trial solutions. VeraSci will operate as WCG VeraSci and remain headquartered in North Carolina while retaining its leadership team.