Houlihan Lokey Advises International Wire Group Holdings (2)

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that International Wire Group Holdings, Inc. (IWG) has acquired Owl Wire and Cable LLC (Owl) from Marmon Holdings, Inc. The transaction closed on December 6, 2019.

IWG, through its subsidiaries, is a manufacturer and marketer of wire products for other wire suppliers, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers. Its products include a broad spectrum of copper wire configurations and gauges with a variety of electrical and conductive characteristics and are utilized by a wide variety of customers, primarily in the industrial and energy, electronics and data communications, automotive/specialty vehicles, aerospace and defense, medical products, and consumer and appliance industries. The company has twenty manufacturing facilities and one distribution facility located throughout the United States, France, Italy, and Poland.

Owl is a producer of high volume, heavy bare and tinned wire with operations in Canastota, Rome, and Boonville, New York. Founded in 1954 as a family-owned business, Owl has been a recognized leader in copper wire for more than six decades.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to IWG and assisted in initiating, structuring, and negotiating the transaction on its behalf. This transaction underscores Houlihan Lokey's long-standing reputation and credentials as a premier advisor to the world's leading industrial and metals companies.