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Cover Story: C2FO's $100M round is just the start
Big money from huge players will fuel the global expansion of the Leawood financial tech company, which most likely is seeing its valuation approach $1 billion.
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Capstone Awards 2018: Mixed-Use — Commerce Tower
Location: 911 Main St., Kansas City Size: 558,760 square feet Value: $139 million Players: Commerce Tower Group LLC, developer; Ryan Cos., architect, engineer and general contractor Description:...
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Local financial planner steers adoption of new code of ethics
A Lenexa financial planner is head of a national organization that just adopted a new code of ethics for certified financial planners to ensure they're acting in clients' best interests.
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Lifted Spirits ties liquor to art with release of the area's first absinthe
Lifted Spirits, a Kansas City craft distillery at 1734 Cherry St., is about to release the first absinthe made in the area. Absinthe is a high-proof liquor, traditionally made with three core...
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Bryan Cave partners: Merger will add international expertise to KC office
Bryan Cave completed its merger with London-based Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP on Saturday.
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Chinese tariff retaliation hits giant KC export
Processed foods like pork products are the third-largest export for the Kansas City area and China is the area's third-largest export partner, so the recent announcement of China implementing a 25...
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Commerce Bancshares names new CEO
David Kemper will step down as CEO of Commerce Bancshares Inc. on Aug. 1, after 30 years in the role, but will stay on as chairman. Kemper, 67, has been with the bank since 1978, becoming CEO in 1988....
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Seigfreid Bingham helps trucking client avert a possible $100M class action
Attorneys from Kansas City-based Seigfreid Bingham PC earned a big victory in a case filed against client TransAm Trucking Inc. of Olathe when a federal judge ruled that the case did not qualify for...
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Palmer Square hires competitor's COO, reaches $5.5B in AUM
Growth at Palmer Square Capital Management, which just hit a new high of $5.5 billion in assets under management, has led the firm to add the position of COO to its executive ranks.
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CommunityAmerica tackles college planning with true-cost calculator
CommunityAmerica Credit Union wants to make planning for college a far easier process, and its latest tool is an innovative College Cost and Compare Calculator that shows the true cost, not just the...
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Newsmaker: Shook Hardy's McDonough pursues her passions: law, reading and The...
Madeleine McDonough began her career as a pharmacist but says even then, "I was always thinking about the law." When she's not traveling the country for her job, she reads a lot, hits the Telluride...
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Sporting Kansas City names new CEO
Sporting Kansas City named Jake Reid as its new CEO, succeeding Robb Heineman, who has held the role for the past 14 years. Reid has been president of Sporting KC since January 2016. Heineman remains a...
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There’s strategy behind Enterprise Bank’s recent leadership changes in KC
Enterprise Bank spent the past 15 months rebuilding its Kansas City-area leadership team, with organic growth on its mind.
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Pivot International buys firm behind new Polaroid cameras
Lenexa-based Pivot International acquired WideBlue, a engineering firm in Glasgow, Scotland with expertise in digital optics and imaging technology.
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Regulators approve merger for two of KC’s strongest banks
BankLiberty’s acquisition of Lawson Bank received approval from regulators and is set to close this quarter. Lawson Bank, which has four local branches and $119.1 million in assets, will be merged into...
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Leawood limo company accuses competitor of trademark shenanigans
Leawood-based Wheatland Enterprises Inc., doing business as Overland Limousine, is suing a competitor called Overland Limo Services for trademark infringement. According to its lawsuit in federal court...
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KC trial lawyer sues Sig Sauer, claiming pistol model fires when dropped
Prominent plaintiffs attorney Tim Dollar seeks class-action status for buyers of the Sig Sauer model P320 pistols. The lawsuit argues that the guns have a defective design that causes them to fire if...
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Lathrop Gage lawyer wins ruling that will help limit suits against employers
Jennifer Hannah, chair of the litigation division at Lathrop Gage, successfully argued a case in front of the Missouri Supreme Court that clarified the rules for filing employment discrimination claims.
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Five years in, HomeDirect is now one-third of Mobank’s KC employment
Since it was founded in 2013, HomeDirect Mortgage has grown to the point where it represents one-third of BOK Financial Corp.’s employment in the Kansas City area.
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Australian legal software company picks KC for its U.S. headquarters
Focused on helping in-house legal counsel get more organized and become more efficient, Xakia set up its U.S. headquarters in Kansas City and is using the local legal community as test market.
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