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Livingstone hat Lesman Instrument Company (\u201eLesman\u201d oder \u201edas Unternehmen\u201d) beim Verkauf an Kele, Inc. (\u201eKele\u201d), ein Portfoliounternehmen von <\/strong>The Stephens Group, LLC<\/strong><\/a> als exklusiver Finanzberater des Unternehmens unterst\u00fctzt. Die Transaktion wurde im Dezember 2020 abgeschlossen. \u00dcber die Eckpunkte der Transaktion haben die Parteien Stillschweigen vereinbart.<\/strong><\/p>

Das 1962 gegr\u00fcndete und in Bensenville, Illinois, ans\u00e4ssige Unternehmen Lesman <\/a>ist ein Spezialanbieter von Produkten zur Messung, Analyse, Steuerung und Automatisierung einer Vielzahl industrieller Prozesse, der sich mehrheitlich im Besitz des Lesman Instrument Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan (\u201eESOP\u201d) befand. Zu den Produkten geh\u00f6ren verschiedene Temperatur-, Druck-, F\u00fcllstands- und Durchflussmessger\u00e4te, die von branchenf\u00fchrenden OEMs hergestellt werden.<\/p>

Kele <\/a>mit Sitz in Memphis, Tennessee, wurde 1983 gegr\u00fcndet und ist der f\u00fchrende Distributor von Peripherieger\u00e4ten und Steuerungsl\u00f6sungen f\u00fcr die Geb\u00e4udeautomation. Kele bietet seinen Kunden Zugang zu \u00fcber 125.000 SKUs in 24 Produktkategorien von \u00fcber 300 f\u00fchrenden Lieferanten, darunter Hersteller verschiedener Sensoren, Durchflussmesser, Transmitter, Stromversorgungen und zahlreicher anderer Produkte, die f\u00fcr das ordnungsgem\u00e4\u00dfe Funktionieren kommerzieller Geb\u00e4udeautomationssysteme (z. B. HLK und Beleuchtung) entscheidend sind.<\/p>

Lesman beauftragte Livingstone mit der Durchf\u00fchrung eines Verkaufsprozesses, um eine Transaktion mit dem besten strategischen Partner zu identifizieren, der das Engagement des Unternehmens, seinen Lieferanten und Kunden einen Mehrwert zu bieten, teilt.<\/p>

Mike DeLacluyse, Pr\u00e4sident und CEO von Lesman, kommentierte: \u201eWir sind begeistert, mit Kele einen Weltklasse-Partner gefunden zu haben, der das Erbe von Lesman fortf\u00fchrt. Ich k\u00f6nnte nicht zufriedener sein mit der erstklassigen Vertretung, die wir vom Livingstone-Team erhalten haben. Als wir mit der Entscheidung f\u00fcr eine Transaktion begannen, haben wir \u00fcberlegt, ob wir einen Berater beauftragen sollten oder nicht. Wir haben mit Livingstone absolut die richtige Wahl getroffen. Sie haben einen ma\u00dfgeschneiderten Transaktionsprozess entwickelt und diesen Schritt f\u00fcr Schritt begleitet, was zu einem hervorragenden Ergebnis f\u00fcr die Aktion\u00e4re gef\u00fchrt hat.\u201d<\/p>

Andrew Isgrig<\/strong><\/a>, Partner bei Livingstone<\/strong>, kommentierte: \u201eDas Unternehmen differenziert sich im Distributionsmarkt f\u00fcr Test-, Mess- und Steuerungsprodukte, indem es ein breites Portfolio hochwertiger Produkte von Blue-Chip-OEMs \u00fcber ein hochtechnisches, erfahrenes Vertriebs- und Serviceteam anbietet, das durch fortschrittliche analytische F\u00e4higkeiten unterst\u00fctzt wird. Es war uns ein Vergn\u00fcgen, Lesman bei dieser Transaktion zu vertreten, und wir freuen uns auf ihre Zukunft mit Kele.\u201d<\/p>

Andrew Bozzelli, Partner bei Livingstone<\/strong><\/a>, f\u00fcgte hinzu: \u201eDie Lesman-Transaktion stellt ein weiteres erfolgreiches Ergebnis f\u00fcr einen Value-Added-Distributor-Kunden dar, einschlie\u00dflich eines zweiten sehr erfolgreichen Verkaufs eines ESOP-gef\u00fchrten Distributors nach dem Verkauf von Apache an Motion Industries<\/a>. Unser Verst\u00e4ndnis der Produktpalette und der Dynamik zur Wertsteigerung erm\u00f6glichte es uns, einen \u00e4u\u00dferst wettbewerbsf\u00e4higen Prozess durchzuf\u00fchren und eine Transaktion innerhalb von 120 Tagen nach Beauftragung abzuschlie\u00dfen.\u201d<\/p>

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC<\/a> fungierte als Rechtsberater des Unternehmens. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.<\/a> vertrat den Treuh\u00e4nder des ESOP. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP<\/a> fungierte als Rechtsberater von Kele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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