M&A

February 12, 2024 | By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, Zak Putlak, and John Panvica The U.S. biofuels sector in 2023 registered the flourishing of new technologies and billions in new investments – and [...]

February 8, 2024 – J.B. Pearl Sales & Service, Inc. (“J.B. Pearl” or the “Company”), a St. Marys, Kansas-based ag retailer, recently closed on its sale to an undisclosed buyer. Ocean Park [...]

October 4, 2023 – Green Plains Inc. (“Green Plains”) recently closed on the sale of its 55 million gallon ethanol plant located in Atkinson, Nebraska. The purchaser and financial terms were not [...]

February 22, 2023 | By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, and Zak Putlak The market for buying and selling biofuels plants followed a historic 2021 with a transformational year in 2022, driven by one [...]

November 1, 2022 – CIE recently announced that it acquired the assets of Elkhorn Valley Ethanol (“EVE”) from Louis Dreyfus Company, a global agricultural commodities firm. Financial terms of the [...]

February 28, 2022 | By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, and Zak Putlak As ethanol producers pursued mergers and acquisitions, and renewable diesel firms built and expanded plants, the biofuels industry [...]

December 23, 2021 – CC Industries, Inc. (“CCI”) announced that it has acquired CIE, one of the largest producers of grain based, high-quality, specialty alcohols in the United States. Financial [...]

November 9, 2021 – Pipeline Foods, LLC (“Pipeline Foods”) recently closed the sale of its grain storage facility in Atlantic, Iowa to Landus, Iowa’s largest farmer-owned grain cooperative. Landus [...]

January 28, 2021 – Green Plains Inc. (“Green Plains”) announced on January 27, 2021, that its subsidiary, Green Plains Ord LLC, entered into an asset purchase agreement with GreenAmerica Biofuels [...]

January 25, 2021 | By Bruce Comer and Frank Kim Biofuels merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in North America remained sluggish in 2020. For the second consecutive year, no large-scale, [...]