GCP-backed Fishawack acquires JK Associates

GCP bought Fishawack for £13m in a secondary buyout from YFM Equity Partners in March 2013. The company has since embarked on a buy-and-build strategy that saw it bolt on Switzerland-based Archimed Medical Communications for £6m in June 2013.

JK Associates is headquartered in Philadelphia and will expand Fishawack's presence in the US. The company operates under four brands: JK Medical Communications, Arbor Medical Communications, Endpoint Medical Communications and 1010 Digital.

Fishawick and JK initially worked on a joint business pitch in 2004 and the target company stated that the experience was the catalyst for the deal.

Company
JK is a medical communications group based in Philadelphia, US, with an additional team in Ann Arbor. The business employs 37 people.

People
Oliver Dennis is CEO of Fishawack. John Czekanski is president and CEO of JK. Garrett Curran, Richard Shaw and Simon Jobson worked on the deal for GCP.

Advisers
Equity – BDO, Ruth Percival, James Fieldhouse (Corporate finance); Chris Heatlie, Louise Chubb (Financial due diligence); Hill Dickinson, Craig Scott, Michael Murphy (Legal); Dickstein Shapiro, Malcolm Sandilands (Legal).

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