Each year, the National Capital Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth sponsors their Corporate Growth Awards, which recognize the most successful accomplishments of the DC metro region’s corporate growth executives, investors, dealmakers and transaction teams.

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Late last week, individual and company award finalists were selected from a large number of nominations across the broad swath of industries in the National Capital business community.

Here is the list of 2016 finalists:

Emerging Growth Company of the Year (under $25M)
Atlas Research
Avizia
Decision Lens
ThreatConnect

Corporate Growth Company of the Year ($25M-75M)
Collaborative Solutions
CrossCountry Consulting
MAG Aerospace
RainKing Solutions

Corporate Growth Company of the Year ($75M-250M)
Blue Canopy
Cognosante
Xator

Corporate Growth Company of the Year (over $250M)
Deltek
GTT Communications, Inc.
Interstate Resources, Inc.

Venture Deal of the Year
DrFirst
Greensmith Energy
Weather Analytics

Private Equity Deal of the Year
TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners Acquisition of Majority Stake in Ellucian
Salient Federal Solutions Inc.  / CRGT Inc. Merger
Veritas Capital Acquisition of Alion Science and Technology

Deal of the Year – Under $50M
Cubic Corporation Acquisition of TeraLogics, LLC
GetWellNetwork, Inc. Acquisition of Skylight Healthcare Systems, Inc.
Hobsons Acquisition of StarFish Retention Solutions

Deal of the Year – $50M-$250M
Arrow Electronics, Inc. Acquisition of immixGroup
MicroPact / Iron Data Solutions, Inc. Merger
ManTech Acquisition of Knowledge Consulting Group
Vonage Acquisition of iCore Networks, Inc.

Deal of the Year – Over $250M
The Advisory Board Company Acquisition of Royall & Company
CSC Split and Merger with SRA
Harris Corporation Acquisition of Exelis, Inc.
Orbital Sciences Corporation / Alliant Techsystems Inc. Merger

Deal Team of the Year (Private Company)
ECS Federal, LLC
PAE
Preferred Systems Solutions, Inc.

Deal Team of the Year (Public Company)
The  Advisory Board Company
CSRA
MAXIMUS

The winners in each category will be announced at a black tie gala on May 19, 2016 at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner. If you’d like to be in-person at the event to hear which executives, deals and companies take home their respective awards, you can register to attend by clicking HERE.