Economic Development

Milwaukee investment banking firm has assisted Sturtevant manufacturer American Metal Technologies LLC in securing financing from Racine County and People’s United Bank.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee have received a $75,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to offer early financial education to their youngest members.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Eva’s Bridal Center in Oak Creek recently received a Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) Small Business Guarantee (SBG) on a loan totaling $100,000.

U.S. Bank and The Brewery Works, Inc., the developers of downtown Milwaukee’s Schlitz Park office complex, announced that they have closed on financing for the renovation of the project’s signature RiverCenter Building and three other office buildings on the Schlitz Park campus.

Thomas Bolger, chief executive officer of Johnson Financial Group and Racine-based Johnson Bank, and Helen Johnson-Leipold, chairman of the board, announced that the previously announced Johnson family investment of $235 million in the company has been approved by the Federal Reserve Bank.

The Wisconsin chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth held the final round of its annual ACG Cup competition on Saturday.

My last post detailed a number of encouraged, restricted and prohibited agriculture and mining opportunities in China as listed in the “2012 Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue,” recently implemented by the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration of Commerce. The publication contains a list of the areas China is encouraging, restricting and prohibiting foreigners to be involved in.