ACG Detroit M&A All Star Awards

The Association for Corporate Growth Detroit (ACG) Detroit Chapter honored the 2023 M&A All-Star Awards winners at the eighth annual awards celebration at the Townsend Hotel in downtown Birmingham on May 2. The honorees were chosen for their achievements in the field of mergers and acquisitions in metro Detroit. Winners this year included: Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc.’s acquisition of Fori Automation Inc. — All Star Deal of the Year Over $50M in Revenue; American Adventure Holdings’s acquisition of Ocean Canyon Properties Inc. — All Star Deal of the Year Under $50M in Revenue; Peter Roth, partner at Varnum — All Star Advisor of the Year; Blackford Capital — All Star Dealmaker of the Year; Bryan Berent, managing partner at Blue River Financial Group — All Star Investment Banker of the Year; Arjun Murthy, director of investment banking at Cascade Partners — Rising Star; Scott Eisenberg, managing director of financial advisory services at Capstone Partners — Lifetime Achievement Award. Their stories are covered in the May/June 2023 issue of DBusiness magazine. // Photos by Patrick Gloria