Professional Services Acquisitions in 2016

Auctus Group, Inc., through its affiliate Auctus Search Partners, LLC, has acquired KLG Consultants, LLC, a Greenwood Village, Colorado-based talent acquisition and talent development firm. The deal expands Auctus's recruiting and professional services capabilities—adding executive search, leadership development and outsourced CFO/COO/HR solutions to its existing financial services recruiting and M&A advisory offerings.

Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA) acquired Benefits Advisory Group, an Atlanta-based employee benefits consulting firm. All of the firm's employees, including owner Al NeSmith, will join MMA’s Atlanta operations to enhance MMA’s employee benefits capabilities in the Atlanta market; terms were not disclosed.

SYNNEX Corporation agreed to acquire The Minacs Group Pte Ltd. for approximately $420 million and integrate the business into its Concentrix customer-engagement segment. The deal is intended to expand Concentrix’s automotive industry vertical and accelerate capabilities in marketing optimization and IoT-driven services, while adding scale and reach to serve enterprise clients.

Mortgage Contracting Services (MCS), a Plano, Texas–based provider of property preservation, inspections, REO maintenance and valuations, has acquired Austin-based EPIC Real Estate Solutions. The acquisition expands MCS's service offering to include title insurance, escrow and closing services, loan document signing and flood certifications, and combines EPIC's valuations products with MCS Valuations.

SmithBucklin has acquired SDI, a Chicago-based incentive travel, strategic meetings and special events firm. SDI will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary out of SmithBucklin’s Chicago office with SDI founder Scott Dillion remaining as President, enhancing SmithBucklin’s corporate event-planning capabilities and incentive travel expertise.

ExamWorks Group, Inc. (NYSE: EXAM) has acquired ABI Document Support Services Inc., a national provider of record retrieval, document management and electronic summary services for the property & casualty insurance and legal markets. The acquisition adds ABI's eSummary software and document-management capabilities to ExamWorks' IME and claims management platform to expand service capabilities and automate workflow processes.