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October 2025 – England & Company is pleased to announce that it has served as the exclusive financial advisor to YData Labs, Inc. (“YData” or the “Company”) on its pending acquisition by KPMG US. This transaction deepens England’s Technology footprint advising companies across the Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and broader IT infrastructure ecosystem.

YData was founded in 2019 to unlock the power of synthetic data to accelerate innovation, ensure privacy, and enable AI through improved quality data. What started as a vision to make data more accessible grew into a platform trusted by teams around the world.

With this acquisition, KPMG will strengthen its AI client offerings, harness synthetic data to enhance AI-enabled client delivery for Audit and Assurance, Tax and Advisory services, and establish a Synthetic Data Center of Excellence designed to accelerate innovation and safeguard client confidentiality.

Gonçalo Martins Ribeiro, Founder and CEO of YData, commented, “England was an exceptional partner throughout this process. Their deep understanding of the AI infrastructure ecosystem and connectivity into key stakeholders coupled with expert process guidance, was instrumental in allowing YData to position the Company to play a key role in how synthetic data will shape the future of AI.”

“In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, synthetic data is playing a key role in testing, training and deploying solutions while balancing privacy, compliance and time-to-value demands,” noted England Managing Director, Joel Strauch. “YData combines a leading-edge platform with deep technical expertise to build, test, and scale synthetic data to support AI. We’re honored to have had the opportunity to partner with the YData team and look forward to seeing their continued success as part of KPMG.”

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November 2019 – England & Company served as the exclusive financial advisor to IPKeys Power Partners (“IPKeys”), a leading provider of meter data management, cyber security, and demand management, in its acquisition of N-Dimension Solutions, Inc.

N-Dimension is a public power sector leader in cyber security monitoring with 100 utilities served. Ontario-based N-Dimension will merge into the IPKeys Power Partners platform, while continuing to serve current customers. The acquisition adds a robust cyber threat detection and remediation capability to IPKeys’ existing Cyber Lab as a Service (IPKeys CLaaS) which provides a broad range of cybersecurity services and solutions to utilities and large municipal and public safety organizations throughout North America. Earlier this year, IPKeys acquired SigmaFlow to add an automated NERC-CIP compliance capability to their CLaaS offering.  England & Company also served as IPKeys’ financial advisor on that transaction.

The N-Dimension transaction included an equity investment in IPKeys from Enertech Capital, a leading venture capital firm focused on investing in emerging companies essential to energy innovation. EnerTech’s investment landscape includes Digital Networks, Connected Buildings, Mobility, and Optimization.

“The integration of N-Dimension into our CLaaS platform enables IPKeys to provide customers with a more robust and comprehensive cybersecurity solution,” said Robert Nawy, CEO of IPKeys. “The investment by EnerTech is especially advantageous because of their proven ability to also provide strategic support and exposure to their influential network of strategic partners.”

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October 2019 – England & Company served as the exclusive financial advisor to Focus Pointe Global (“Focus Pointe”), a portfolio company of MVC Private Equity, in its acquisition by Schlesinger Group, a leading qualitative and quantitative marketing services firm backed by Gauge Capital.

Focus Pointe is one of the largest and most comprehensive providers of qualitative market research services in the United States. Through its national network of 18 strategically located research facilities, the company specializes in precision qualitative data collection and has developed a proprietary panel with over 1.6 million vetted respondents for use in qualitative and quantitative studies. Focus Pointe serves a diverse base of corporate clients with over 1,400 brands, as well as market research firms, educational institutions.

About MVC Private Equity

MVC Private Equity is private capital fund managed by Michael Tokarz and The Tokarz Group Advisors, LLC, a registered investment adviser. The Tokarz Group Advisors also serves as the investment advisor to MVC Capital, Inc., a public business development company with the flexibility to invest across the entire capital structure.

About Gauge Capital

Gauge Capital is a private equity firm that partners with owners, managers and equity stakeholders of successful middle market companies to maximize their potential. Gauge Capital focuses on investing in growing services and technology-enabled companies in the business and consumer, healthcare, industrial and food sectors.

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September 2017 – MCW Solutions LLC  (“MCW”) was acquired by Diversified, a portfolio company of Tailwind Capital.  England Securities acted as exclusive financial advisor to MCW in this transaction.

MCW is a global provider of cost-effective, innovative and reliable technology systems in support of managed IT, network infrastructure, audio-visual applications, unified communications and security. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Ashburn, VA, MCW serves clients across a wide array of industries including federal & local government, commercial, non-profit, education and healthcare.

The acquisition strategically expands Diversified’s service offerings with the addition of an established electronic security business across the U.S. and Europe. MCW has a strong presence in the Mid-Atlantic region with a growing client-base in multiple markets.

“The England & Company team did a great job of identifying the right strategic partners and orchestrating our discussions with numerous interested parties,” said Ghattas Hajjo, MCW’s President and Co-founder. “Their team played an instrumental role in structuring and getting this transaction over the finish line. We received partner-level attention and great support from their entire team. We are delighted with the result.”

Diversified is an industry-leading technology solutions provider delivering innovative digital media, collaborative, broadcasting, and OTT solutions to a global clientele across a wide array of markets. Diversified has been named Commercial Integrator Magazine’s Integrator of the Year for 2016, appears on Enterprise Networking’s Top 10 UC Solutions Providers for 2017, and ranks among Inc. Magazine’s fastest-growing private companies for 2017.