Banking & Finance

The Milwaukee office of Baker Tilly Capital, LLC, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm and subsidiary of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP, has completed the sale of Milwaukee-based Nature's Protein Inc. to J. Strickland Company of Olive Branch, Miss.

Menomonee Falls-based ZBB Energy Corp., a developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 31.6 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of 38 cents per share.

Pewaukee-based PJs Plumbing Company Inc. has acquired J.D. Wilson Plumbing LLC of Merton.

First Business Financial Services Inc. was recently ranked as the 15th top-performing mid-sized public bank in the country.

The Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association has named seven new leaders to its board of directors and leadership team for 2012-2013.

Plano Molding Company of Plano, Ill. has acquired Frabill Inc. of Jackson. Corporate Financial Advisors of Milwaukee represented Frabill in the transaction.

First Business Financial Services Inc. was recently ranked as the 15th top-performing mid-sized public bank in the country.

The board of directors of Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. authorized the company to expend up to an additional $1 billion to repurchase shares of the company's common stock.

Baird Capital Partners (BCP), the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, announced that its portfolio company American Auto Auction Group LLC (AAAG) has acquired Badger State Auto Auctions Inc.

Pewaukee financial advisory firm Ellenbecker Investment Group has launched a Money Sense Smartphone app, making it one of the first financial planning and consulting firms to do so.