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Andreas Balsiger Betts and Olivier Goarnisson joined Sidley Austin as a senior advisor and a counsel in the life sciences practice, respectively, in the firm’s Swiss office.

Most U.S. small business owners anticipated year-over-year revenue growth in 2018, with many indicating plans to expand in 2019, according to the Bank of America Business Advantage Small Business Owner Report.

Monroe Capital increased TRP Construction Group’s credit facility to support the latter’s acquisition of Southern States Pavement Markings.

Signature Bank partnered with trueDigital to develop Signet, a new digital payments platform designed to enable real-time payments for the bank’s commercial clients.

Gibraltar Business Capital funded a $5.5 million line of credit to support Industrial Value Partners’ acquisition of South Carolina Elastics, a division of Rhode Island Textile Company.

Investment bank Matrix Capital Markets Group acted as merger and acquisition advisor to Giant Eagle in its acquisition of Ricker Oil Company.

TAB Bank provided a $1.25 million asset-based revolving credit facility to a manufacturing company based in Georgia.

D&D Leasing Group has partnered with humanitarian organization WE to support the latter’s infrastructure and education improvement program in Kalinjar, India.

The Commercial Finance Association awarded Michael D. Sharkey, president of MB Business Capital, its prestigious Life Time Achievement Award.

Steven M. Cramer joined Houlihan Lokey as a managing director in the bank’s Technology, Media, & Telecom Group overseeing the gaming sector. He will be based in Los Angeles.