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News and Events

  • Investment Banking

    William Blair Acts as Joint Bookrunner on Accelerant’s Initial Public Offering

    William Blair acted as a joint bookrunner on a $832 million initial public offering for Accelerant Holdings (NYSE: ARX), a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers.

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  • Investment Banking

    Datasite Has Acquired Blueflame AI

    William Blair acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Datasite, a portfolio company of CapVest Partners, in connection with its acquisition of Blueflame AI.

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  • Investment Banking

    AccuLynx Has Agreed to be Acquired by Verisk

    William Blair acted as exclusive financial advisor to AccuLynx in connection with its pending acquisition by Verisk Analytics.

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  • Equity Research

    Vertiv Holdings Co.: Initiation of Research Coverage

    William Blair initiated research coverage of Vertiv Holdings Co. (VRT $130.87), a global leader in the manufacturing, design, and servicing of critical digital infrastructure for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial end-markets.

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  • Investment Banking

    FMX Has Received a Strategic Growth Investment from Luminate Capital Partners

    William Blair acted as exclusive financial advisor to FMX in connection with its strategic growth investment from Luminate Capital Partners.

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  • Investment Banking

    Ortholite Has Agreed to be Acquired by Coats Group plc

    William Blair acted as the lead financial advisor to Ortholite, a portfolio company of Trilantic Capital Partners, in connection with its pending sale to Coats Group plc (LSE: COA) for an enterprise value of $770 million excluding value ascribed to tax attributes and a royalty agreement for recently introduced intellectual property that was yet to be commercialized in the market.

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  • Investment Banking

    William Blair Advises on 20 Public Capital Market Offerings Since Mid-May

    William Blair’s Capital Markets team has successfully underwritten and advised on 20 equity/equity-linked offerings in the public market since mid-May.

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Awards and Recognition

  • Corporate

    William Blair Among the Most Charitable Companies in Massachusetts

    William Blair is honored to be named in the Boston Business Journal's annual Corporate Citizenship Awards, recognizing the region’s top corporate charitable contributors.

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  • Private Wealth Management

    Barron’s Names Four William Blair Colleagues as Top 100 Women Advisors

    Congratulations to Lindsey Holton, Laura Linger, Sarah Mercurio, and Jackie Moss on being recognized on Barron’s annual list, released on July 18.

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  • Corporate

    William Blair Receives Financial Services Top Workplaces 2025 Recognition

    William Blair was recognized as a Financial Services Top Workplaces 2025 award recipient on July 16.

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  • Corporate

    Celebrating Our 2025 William Blair Cares Awards Recipients

    We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 William Blair Cares Awards, an annual recognition program celebrating employee-led and -inspired volunteerism.

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  • Corporate

    William Blair Receives 2025 New York City Top Workplace Award

    William Blair earned a 2025 New York City Top Workplace award on June 12.

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  • John Cultra
    Private Wealth Management

    Honoring Excellence: John Cultra's Induction Into Barron's Advisor Hall of Fame

    William Blair is proud to announce that John Cultra, partner, wealth advisor, has been inducted into Barron’s Advisor Hall of Fame.

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In The Media

  • Investment Banking

    Private Capital Advisory’s Quarterly Newsletter Published in Secondary Link

    William Blair’s Private Capital Advisory team’s first quarter 2025 quarterly newsletter—“No ‘Pencils Down’ in secondaries, Despite tariff shocks”—was republished by secondaries industry publication Secondary Link.

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  • Investment Banking

    Steve Maletzky Quoted in Crain's Chicago Business

    Steve Maletzky, William Blair’s head of Capital Markets, was quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business discussing the IPO market for Chicago companies.

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  • Equity Research

    Sharon Zackfia Joins CNBC to Discuss Restaurant Industry Investing

    William Blair research analyst Sharon Zackfia was featured on CNBC during William Blair’s Growth Stock Conference, where she discussed many of the restaurant brands on her coverage list and the macroeconomic factors impacting the sector so far in 2025.

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  • Equity Research

    Dylan Carden Quoted in Business of Fashion

    William Blair research analyst Dylan Carden was quoted in Business of Fashion, where he discussed why end-consumers haven’t as of June 2025 felt a substantive financial impact of the Trump administration’s tariffs.

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  • Investment Banking

    Tom Marking Discusses U.S. Secondaries Market With Buyouts

    William Blair’s Tom Marking, a director in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory group, was quoted in Buyouts, where he provided insights into fundraising and deal volume trends so far in 2025 among secondary investment vehicles.

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