Marlin & Associates ("Marlin"), the boutique investment banking
and strategic advisory firm, today announced that the firm has been
recognized for advising on two recent merger-and-acquisition
transactions. Marlin & Associates received awards for advising
on:
- Corporate M&A Deal-of-the-Year ($5-$100M) for its role
advising SMARTS Group (Sydney, Australia) on its sale to NASDAQ
OMX; and
- Technologies Deal-of-the-Year ($5-$100M) for Marlin's role
advising Logical Information Machines (Chicago, Illinois) on its
sale to Morningstar.
The Atlas Awards honor top deals, deal-makers and firms from
North and South American mid-market mergers and acquisitions
communities. They were announced by host and master of ceremonies,
Ms. Lisa Murphy, anchor at Bloomberg Television, at the Americas
M&A Atlas Awards Gala Ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria in
New York City. An independent body of experts judged and determined
the ultimate recipients of the award. Marlin was chosen from among
207 deal nominations from 41 unique firms worldwide.
"We are honored to be recognized for our role in helping affect
these m&a transactions," said Paul Friday, Partner at Marlin
& Associates."We believe that our unique blend of operational
and financial experience, combined with our firm's international
approach and track record of success put us in a formidable
position to advise on a wide range of m&a transactions,
including some of unusual difficulty."
"Winners should take pride in completing outstanding
transactions, representing the very finest from the Americas middle
market mergers and acquisitions communities. Winners earned
high-marks in a competitive selection process from 175 finalists in
25 deal categories of awards," said Shanta Kumari, Managing Partner
of Global M&A Network.
Marlin & Associates is one of the most active firms
worldwide advising buyers and sellers of middle-market
information-technology firms. Marlin & Associates' team of
professionals has advised over 200 information-technology
transactions. Recent Marlin & Associates clients include
Deutsche Börse; NYSE Euronext; Reed Elsevier; and McGraw Hill as
well as a host of firms owned by entrepreneurs, corporations,
private equity and venture capital firms.
About The Americas M&A Atlas Awards
Americas M&A Atlas Awards is part of the M&A Atlas Awards
global brand, and exclusively honors top deals, deal-makers and
firms from North and South American mid-market mergers and
acquisitions communities. The program attracted 207 deal
nominations from 41 unique firms worldwide. Finalists and winners
are selected by group of independent advisors.
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. Marlin has been the recipient of numerous other awards,
including twice being named "Middle Market Investment Banking Firm
of the Year," as well as the "Middle Market Financing Agent of the
Year -- Equity," and has been recognized for leading multiple
"Deals of the Year" categories including: the "Financial Technology
Deal of the Year," the "International Cross-Border Deal of the
Year," and the "Middle Market Financing -- Computer, Technology and
Telecommunications Deal of the Year." More information is available
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:
- 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, New York, which
Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Interactive Data
Corp.
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