The Atlanta Chapter of The Association for Corporate Growth, a global professional organization with the mission of Driving Middle-Market Growth, recognizes the companies below as this year’s honorees. A celebration and the presentation of the awards will be held on November 21st.

“All of the awards selected this year exemplify ACG Atlanta’s focus on growth and demonstrate the strength and significance of Atlanta-based companies and investors,” said Melanie Brandt, President and CEO of ACG Atlanta. “Our winners achieved the highest performance and deal execution standards, representing the best of the highly qualified nominees this year.”

The ACG Atlanta Deals of the Year committee panel consists of a wide variety of ACG Member executives that comprise the local deals community. Nominations were considered based on the following criteria: economic development impact, complexity, involvement of strategic Atlanta business sectors, products or services with potential for significant local and global impact, and involvement of Atlanta investors, executives, and serial entrepreneurs.

ACG Atlanta will present awards to winners on November 21st at the Atlanta History Center. Herschel Walker, the University of Georgia football legend and successful businessman is the featured Keynote Speaker.

2019 Deal Honorees include:

Mega/Large Cap – SunTrust & BB&T Merger

Middle-Market – Argenbright Holdings & Delta Global Services

REIT – Cortland Partners

Innovative Financing – REPAY (Realtime Electronic Payments)

Venture Deal - Salesloft

Dealmaker of the Year – Jim Childs, Managing Partner & CEO at Bowstring Advisors, a division of Citizens Capital Markets

Legend Award – Cam Lanier, Chairman & CEO of ITC Holding Company, LLC and ITC Capital Partners, LLC