Marlin & Associates ("Marlin"), the boutique investment banking
and strategic advisory firm, today announced that the firm has
again been recognized for advising on recent significant
merger-and-acquisition transactions. Marlin received 'deal of the
year' awards for advising on:
- Middle-Market 'Deal of the Year' (From $50mm to $100mm) for its
role in advising Hugin (Oslo, Norway) on its sale to Thomson
Reuters by NYSE Euronext; and
- Financial Services 'Deal of the Year' ($500mm and less) for its
role advising SMARTS Group (Sydney, Australia) on its sale to
NASDAQ OMX.
"Winning seven 'Deal of the Year' Awards is unprecedented for
us," said Marlin & Associates' Managing Partner and Founder Ken
Marlin. "We are pleased to be recognized by our peers and humbled
by the attention. It is our pleasure to gather momentum for 2011 as
we help our clients successfully close well-executed deals."
Marlin & Associates is one of the most active investment
banking firms providing strategic and financial advice to worldwide
buyers and sellers of middle-market technology firms. Marlin's team
of professionals have extensive experience from advising on more
than 200 transactions involving companies that provide information
and technology to a wide range of communities including those that
serve the banking, capital markets, insurance, marketing and
healthcare arenas. Other recent global Marlin & Associates
clients include Deutsche Börse, NYSE Euronext, Reed Elsevier's
LexisNexis, McGraw Hill's Standard and Poor's (S&P), SWIFT, and
NaviNet as well as a large array of firms owned by entrepreneurs,
corporations, private equity and venture capital firms
worldwide.
Each year, The M&A Advisor, a conference producer and
newsletter publisher serving the middle market finance industry,
recognizes top deal-making professionals serving the $10 million -
$1 billion (sales) market in fields such as investment banking,
private equity, legal services, and accounting. The M&A Advisor
nominates firms and individuals for awards based on their
creativity and resourcefulness, persistence, business savvy, and
value-added. The finalists are judged by an independent body of
experts who represent a cross-section of the middle market
financing industry.
The award winners were announced at the 9th Annual M&A
Awards Gala and Summit at the New York Athletic Club in New York
City.
About The M&A
Advisor Since 1998, The M&A Advisor has been the
preeminent organization facilitating connections and recognizing
achievement in the top performers of the M&A, turnaround and
financing industries through its leading Awards, Summits, M&A
ALERTS™ newsletters, M&A LINKS™ social network, M&A MARKET
INTEL™ research and publishing service and M&A CONNECTS™
business development services.
About Marlin & Associates
Marlin & Associates Holding LLC is a boutique investment
banking and strategic advisory firm specializing in acquisitions
and divestitures of U.S. and international middle-market firms that
provide technology, digital information and healthcare-related
products, technology and services. The firm is headquartered in New
York, NY and has additional offices in Washington, DC and Toronto,
Canada. Further information can be read at www.MarlinLLC.com.
Marlin & Associates Securities LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Marlin & Associates Holding LLC, is a
broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and is a FINRA/SIPC member firm (www.finra.org).
Investment banking and/or securities are offered through Marlin
& Associates Securities LLC. Marlin & Associates'
professionals have advised on more than 200 successfully completed
transactions. Some other recent clients that Marlin &
Associates has advised include:
- NaviNet, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which Marlin &
Associates advised on the purchase of Prematics;
- iSuppli of El Segundo, California, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to IHS (NYSE: IHS);
- Qatarlyst of Doha, Qatar, which Marlin & Associates
advised on its acquisition of RI3K;
- SMARTS Group of Sydney, Australia, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ: NDAQ);
- SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication) of Brussels, Belgium, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its acquisition of Ambit Messaging Hub from
SunGard;
- Strategic Analytics of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Marlin
& Associates advised on its sale to Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:
VRSK);
- Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM) of Chicago, Illinois,
which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Morningstar,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN);
- NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) of New York, New York, which Marlin
& Associates advised on the sale of its Hugin subsidiary to
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI);
- Vhayu Technologies of Los Gatos, California, which Marlin
& Associates advised on its sale to Thomson Reuters (NYSE:
TRI);
- Standard & Poor's of New York, New York a division of The
McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), which Marlin & Associates
advised on the sale of its Vista Research subsidiary to Guidepoint
Global;
- Tenfore of London, England, which Marlin & Associates
advised on its sale to Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN);
- LexisNexis of Dayton, Ohio, which Marlin & Associates
advised on the sale of its subsidiary Mealey's Conference to
Business Valuation Resources (BVR);
- InfoDyne Corp. of Park Ridge, Illinois, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to International Business Machines
Corp. (NYSE: IBM);
- Orimos of Zurich, Switzerland, which Marlin & Associates
advised on its acquisition of ION Trading;
- LowerFees, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, which Marlin
& Associates advised on its sale to Bankrate, Inc. (NASDAQ:
RATE);
- Netik LLC of London, England and New York, New York, which
Marlin & Associates advised on its simultaneous acquisition of
Capco Reference Data Services and the replacement of its primary
investor, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK), with
Symphony Technology Group;
- Applied Financial Technology (AFT) of San Francisco,
California, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to
Lender Processing Services (NYSE: LPS);
- Xcitek LLC's Market Data Division of New York, NY, which
Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Interactive Data
Corp.
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