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Gestalt Acquires Leading Energy and Utility Consulting Firm Barker, Dunn & Rossi
Team’s Unparalleled Experience Spans Electric Utilities in 15 Countries, 6 Continents
Vienna, Va. - November 17, 2004
 Gestalt, a business and information technology firm specializing in the application of interoperation technologies including decision support and simulation for both defense and utilities industry, today announced that it has acquired Washington, D.C.-based energy and utility management consulting firm Barker, Dunn & Rossi, Inc (BDR). The acquisition is Gestalt’s second in the sector this year. Through the deal Gestalt adds a team of seasoned energy and utility professionals with more than 150 years of combined industry experience to an already thriving business unit. The combined team has provided technology and consulting services to companies in the energy and utility industry in virtually every region of the U.S. and Canada - a group that collectively powers more than 90% of the homes and businesses across North America. The team has extensive international experience as well, having provided regulatory reform and restructuring expertise in more than 15 countries, spanning 6 continents.
Longstreet Partners, LLC, chosen by BDR for its experience and success in providing M&A and strategic advisory services to consulting and engineering companies, assisted BDR’s founders as exclusive strategic and financial advisors.
About LongstreetLongstreet Partners ("Longstreet") is a privately-held merchant banking and strategic consulting services firm located in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. Longstreet provides strategic consulting services to regional enterprises seeking liquidity events in the near and mid term horizons, including those companies that require some form of capital injection or other corporate financing. Longstreet is focused upon creating liquidity events and maximizing shareholder value as a part of a structured business plan and process.
About BDRBarker, Dunn & Rossi, Inc. is highly regarded across the United States and throughout the world as domestic and international experts in emerging, evolving, and developed electricity markets. BDR’s expertise lies in electricity market design, strategic business consulting, agreements and tariffs, regulatory and litigation, merger and acquisition and capitalization, and international restructuring. BDR has helped key domestic and international companies improve their operations, restructure their markets, and implement new market designs.
About GestaltGestalt is an information technology firm that helps decision makers in governments and industry increase their return on technology investments through the application of state-of-the-art interoperation, simulation, and decision support technologies. Gestalt’s services include strategy development, technology architecture and partner assessments, application and development of custom frameworks and components, and support. Gestalt has deep experience in back–end systems development and integration (the ‘heavy-lifting’ in integration services), complex web services, and distributed system architectures using open standards based on Java and Microsoft technology, and agent-based technology. Gestalt has offices in Camden, NJ, King of Prussia, PA, Orlando, FL, Hanscom Field, MA, Washington, DC, Hampton, VA, Jacksonville, FL, Joplin, MO, and Toronto, Canada.
For more information, please call (703) 720-7970.
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