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Zentech accelerates effort and strategy to build leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider for Defense, Aerospace, Medical and other high-reliability industries

Merion Portfolio Company, Zentech Manufacturing, Inc., is pleased to announce the acquisition of Trilogy Circuits, LLC.

Trilogy Circuits, LLC , based in Richardson, TX., is AS9100D certified and has a near twenty-year legacy of providing exemplary high-technology electronics manufacturing services (EMS), products and support to the many military primes and other high-reliability industries, both in Texas and nationwide.

Following the transaction, Trilogy Circuits, LLC. will become Zentech Dallas (TX), and joins the Zentech family of companies that also includes Zentech Baltimore (MD) and Zentech Fredericksburg (VA).

Zentech is led by CEO Steve Pudles. Steve has a thirty-year track record of building EMS businesses with industry-leading technology, process, quality and customer service. He is a twenty-year member and past chairman of the Board of Directors of the IPC (Association Connecting Electronics Industries).

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Merion Investment Partners III, L.P. is pleased to announce a new investment in Zentech Manufacturing, Inc. (“Zentech”).  Merion provided subordinated debt and equity to support the acquisition of the company by a private equity firm.

Zentech is an engineering-driven electronics contract manufacturer specializing in the design and manufacture of highly complex electronic and RF circuit cards and assemblies.  The company is headquartered in its purpose-built facility located in Baltimore, MD, with subsidiary operations in Fredericksburg, VA.

Merion Investment Partners III, L.P. is pleased to announce a new investment in Kalisher. Merion provided subordinated debt to support the company’s acquisition of Soho Myriad, Inc. (“Soho”). Kalisher is a North Carolina based creator, curator and manufacturer of art for the commercial hospitality industry. Soho is an Atlanta based consultant, curator and manufacturer of custom art packages. The joining of the two companies brings Soho’s deep experience of producing art with outside artists into harmony with Kalisher’s team of in-house artists and curators.

Merion is pleased to announce a successful exit from TLC Companies (“TLC”) through a sale to an affiliate of SE Capital Partners.

TLC, based in Brooklyn Center, MN, is the nation’s largest provider of outsourced human resource services, including payroll processing, workers compensation insurance and other employee benefits for the transportation industry.

Merion originally invested sub debt and equity in TLC in 2012.  The sale is the culmination of a successful partnership alongside High Street Capital and TLC’s management, along with co-investors Cohesive Capital Partners and Marquette Capital Partners.

Merion Investment Partners III, L.P. is pleased to announce a new investment in RMG Networks (“RMG”).  Merion provided subordinated debt and equity to support the acquisition of the company by a private equity sponsor.

Headquartered in Dallas, TX and with offices worldwide, RMG goes beyond traditional communications to help businesses increase productivity, efficiency and engagement through digital messaging. By combining best-in-class software, hardware, business applications and services, RMG offers a single point of accountability for integrated data visualization and real-time performance management.

Merion Investment Partners III, L.P. is pleased to announce a new investment in TouchMath.  Merion provided subordinated debt and equity to support the acquisition of the company by an independent sponsor.

Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, TouchMath is a creator, publisher and distributor of supplemental math curriculum materials. Since 1975, TouchMath has delivered the only multisensory math program that uses the numeral itself as a manipulative.  The company offers complete instructional programs for pre-k through upper grades with materials built on the Common Core State Standards.

Merion Investment Partners III, L.P. is pleased to announce a new investment in Amazing Care Home Health Services, Inc. (“Amazing Care”).  Merion provided subordinated debt and equity to support the acquisition of the company by a private equity sponsor.

Headquartered in Aurora, CO, Amazing Care is a home healthcare agency providing skilled nursing, private duty nursing, and other services to both adult and pediatric patients. The goal of this acquisition is to help Amazing Care become one of the nation’s leading providers of home healthcare services by growing the business both organically and through strategic acquisitions in other states outside of their four current locations in Colorado.