In Brief: Finova Paying $35 Million For Lender to Tech Firms

Finova Group has signed a definitive agreement to buy Financing for Science International Inc., a specialty leasing company, for about $35 million.

Financing for Science, Farmington, Conn., had $228 million in assets and a committed backlog for $62 million worth of business at the end of the first quarter. It serves the high-technology and life-sciences industries.

Sam Eichenfield, Finova's chairman and chief executive, said the acquisition would broaden the markets served by Finova's commercial equipment finance unit. He noted that $7.3 billion-asset Finova also recently acquired Link Financial Services Inc., a financier of health care receivables.

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