Michael Ewing joins Peakstone as Managing Director

January, 2025. Michael Ewing is a Managing Director focused on life sciences and bio-pharma outsourced services. His clients provide services to drug developers at every point along the development paradigm, from very early-stage ideation and screening through all phases of pre-clinical testing, animal toxicology and clinical development, data collection and analysis, protocol design, patient recruitment, clinical trial conduct/management, FDA application …
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Peakstone Advises Seedbox Solution on Management Buyout Transaction



M&A Advisor

January, 2025. Peakstone served as exclusive financial advisor to Seedbox Solution (“Seedbox”) on its management-led buyout transaction. Granite Creek Capital Partners, along with co-investors Hidden River Strategic Capital and Everside Capital Partners, provided investment to support the buyout of Seedbox’s previous majority shareholder and to gain access to significant growth capital. Headquartered in Gurnee, IL, with operating sites in Good …
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Peakstone Advises Paws Pet Resort on its Sale to Best Friends Pet Care



M&A Advisor

January, 2025. Peakstone served as the exclusive M&A advisor to Paws Pet Resort in connection with its sale to Best Friends Pet Care, a portfolio company of Mosaic Capital Partners. Paws Pet Resort, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a regional, market leading pet resort and services company. Paws Pet Resort has a broad and differentiated service offering that includes …
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Peakstone Publishes Industry Reports

December, 2024. Peakstone’s industry reports can be accessed through the links below. We deliver sector knowledge, experience, and relationships to every client. Please contact us for additional information about our services.



Peakstone Advises Altitude Trampoline Park Franchisee on Sale Transaction



M&A Advisor

October, 2024. Peakstone served as exclusive M&A advisor to the owners of a successful multi-unit franchise of Altitude Trampoline Parks in New England (the “Company”). Altitude is a leading indoor entertainment brand offering a variety of jumping activities and amenities. The franchisee owners have been a leading operator of locations in New Hampshire and Massachusetts since 2018. Peakstone advised the …
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Kimia S. Shadrokh joins Peakstone as Managing Director

October, 2024. Kimia is a managing director at Peakstone focused on business development. Kimia began her career as Director of Commercial Assets at a renowned REIT, The Moinian Group, overseeing an $8 billion commercial real estate portfolio. During her 10 years there, she managed hundreds of employees and successfully completed a number of marquee deals. She spent the next several …
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Peakstone Publishes Industry Reports

September, 2024. Peakstone’s industry reports can be accessed through the links below. We deliver sector knowledge, experience, and relationships to every client. Please contact us for additional information about our services.



Michael Williams joins Peakstone as Managing Director

September, 2024. Michael Williams is a Managing Director at The Peakstone Group where he is responsible for transaction origination and execution. Michael has more than 20 years of investment banking experience, and has completed over 50 M&A advisory assignments for middle market and large capitalization clients, mostly in the diversified industrial, manufacturing, and food processing and distribution sectors. Prior to …
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Al Samouelian joins Peakstone as Managing Director in Transportation & Logistics

September, 2024. Al Samouelian, a highly experienced Logistics industry executive, joins Peakstone Group as a Managing Director. Al has over 25 years of operational, transactional, and senior leadership experience in the Logistics industry. Al has led buy-side and sell-side transactions with American Backhaulers, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Universal Truckload Services, Coyote Logistics and, most recently, RPM Vehicle Systems. He led teams delivering exceptional top and bottom-line …
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Peakstone Advises Pacific Paper Tube Inc. on its sale to Sky Island Capital



M&A Advisor

July, 2024. Pacific Paper Tube, based in Stockton, California, is a leading, multi-facility manufacturer in the paper tube and core industry. PPT has successfully serviced a variety of end markets with paper cores, protective packaging, and construction tubes. The Company has historically been family funded and operated, and the sale marks PPT’s first institutional capital partner. Pacific Paper Tube’s Chairman, …
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