Harter Secrest & Emery LLP (HSE), a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York State, recently represented Alliance Corporation in connection with its merger with GetWireless, LLC.
Alliance Corporation, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, is a leading value-added distributor of wireless telecommunications technology and one of the fastest growing distributors in North America. GetWireless, based in Minnesota, is a value-added distributor of cellular solutions that connect the Internet of Things (IoT). GetWireless enables mobile network operators, value-added resellers, integrators, and OEMs across a wide range of enterprise, industrial, government, and SMB applications. It is expected that the combined organization will represent a broader portfolio of products and technologies along with a larger sales force and distribution footprint to better serve customers and suppliers.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Funds managed by Lee Equity Partners, LLC and Twin Point Capital have invested in Alliance Corporation.
HSE’s Private Equity and Venture Capital deal team, led by Rochester-based Partner William A. Hoy, Buffalo-based Senior Associate Edward M. Stone, and Rochester-based Associate’s Taylor A. Henry and Elizabeth G. Adkins, advised Alliance Corporation in connection with the transaction.
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HSE’s Private Equity and Venture Capital group has substantial experience representing private equity fund sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, corporate finance and other transactions.
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