The ‘Acquisition of Impressions on Hold ("IOHI") by SJ Partners portfolio company Audio Messaging Solutions LLC (Renamed "Spectrio") transaction was named as a finalist for an ACG NY Champions Award. “We are proud that the IOHI acquisition was named a finalist. As Spectrio’s eleventh add-on acquisition, it highlights the strength of our strategy which has contributed [...]

SJ Partners LLC CEO Scott Johnson was honored yesterday evening as a winner of the Annual 40 Under 40 M&A Advisor Recognition Award. Each year 40 winners and 40 finalists from each of three regions are chosen from a pool of prominent nominees by an independent judging panel of business leaders. Nominees are selected based on [...]

SJ Partners LLC CEO Scott Johnson has been appointed an Associate Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School in New York. Johnson, a graduate of Columbia Business School, will teach a class entitled “Acquiring Middle Market Private Businesses.” “I look forward to continuing my involvement at my alma mater and teaching future deal professionals about the exciting, [...]

Joining forces to form one of the top providers in the audio-video marketing industry, SJ Partners portfolio company Audio Messaging Solutions, LLC (AMS) today announced that it has merged with IOHI (Impressions On Hold), creating one of the nation's leading companies in the telephone on-hold messaging business. AMS has grown tenfold in the past six years. [...]

Tampa FL, Austin TX - Two leaders in the audio marketing and on-hold messaging industry have joined forces to offer even more to clients. SJ Partners portfolio company Audio Messaging Solutions, based in Tampa, FL, and Broadcast Marketing & Entertainment (BME), based in Austin, TX, will become one of the largest on-hold marketing companies in the [...]

SJ Partners LLC portfolio company Audio Messaging Solutions, LLC (AMS) - a national provider of telephone on-hold messaging services with clients such as The United States Postal Service and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company - recently acquired Sonic River Studios, a full-service audio production company based in San Diego, California. This is the 10th business acquisition [...]

Knowledge Networks, a portfolio company of Oak Investment Partners, has acquired Caduceus Marketing Research. SJ Partners LLC advised Knowledge Networks. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. For more information: Scott Johnson SJ Partners, LLC scott@sjpartners.com 212-362-1530

London, United Kingdom, October 15, 2009 SJ Partners LLC is proud to announce that its CEO, Scott Johnson, has published a chapter on leveraged buyouts in Qfinance, a groundbreaking and comprehensive guide to finance. The chapter, Leveraged Buyouts: What, Why, When & How, can be assessed electronically on the Qfinance site at http://www.qfinance.com/mergers-and-acquisitions-best-practice/leveraged-buyouts-what-why-when-and-how. About QFINANCE QFINANCE [...]

Tampa, Florida, May 26, 2009 Audio Messaging Solutions LLC secured $11 million to support its growth initiatives. The Oldsmar company, which provides telephone on-hold messaging services, will use the funding to refinance existing debt and to support acquisitions, it said in a release. Affiliates of Main Street Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: MAIN) and Deerpath Capital Management LP [...]