Mike Dudek and Rich Wisniewski of Zygoquest Group served as the advisors to Reliant Data Solutions and its owner Kyle Bartley, on the sale of assets to Electronic Office of Asheville, North Carolina. Dudek also served as the attorney on this transaction for Reliant Data Solutions. Terms of the transaction are confidential.
Located in Hendersonville, North Carolina, Reliant Data Solutions was an IT managed services provider (MSP) founded in 2006, and owned and operated by Kyle Bartley. The company provides customers in the West North Carolina region, including upstate South Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, with a menu of IT services and products including network monitoring and security, software and technology training, computer repair and data backups.
Electronic Office, headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina, is led by CEO Kemper Brown Jr. It provides clients throughout the eastern seaboard with managed IT solutions, cloud solutions and cybersecurity solutions. With a 40-plus-year track record and a team of over 40 associates, Electronic Office helps clients manage rapid technology transformations to improve productivity and protect clients from cyberattacks amidst heightened cybercriminal activities.
Regarding this acquisition, Brown said, “Throughout the acquisition process, Kyle and his advisors [Dudek and Wisniewski of Zygoquest] were excellent partners to work with. From the beginning, it was clear to all parties that Electronic Office and Reliant Data shared many of the same core values. Electronic Office is excited to begin serving Reliant Data’s clients with best-in-class support and enhanced cybersecurity solutions to protect them from current and emerging threats.”
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About Zygoquest Group and Mike Dudek
Mike Dudek, an attorney and CPA, is the owner of Zygoquest Group “seeking to unite” which provides customized merger and acquisition services to buyers & sellers of companies. Zygoquest is the number-one M&A authority in the office equipment and products industry. Dudek, Bill Laughlin and Rich Wisniewski are authors of over 600 consummated M&A transactions, including many technology services acquisitions, and many corrugated and value-added packaging products acquisitions during their careers. Before founding Zygoquest, Dudek was vice president of acquisitions and vice president of finance for IKON Office Solutions, a $5.5 billion NYSE company acquired by Ricoh Corporation. He has evaluated transactions ranging from the smallest transactions to the largest deals in the office products industry – from million-dollar deals to billion-dollar deals. The Zygoquest website contains deals you will recognize.
About Law Office of Mike Dudek
Mike Dudek also owns the Law Office of Mike Dudek which provides owners and executives with customized and affordable legal services on mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions.
