Marlin & Associates Honored for Advising on Two "Deals of the Decade"
December 20 2011 - 6:00AM
Marketwired
Marlin & Associates ("Marlin"), the boutique investment banking
firm specializing in acquisitions and divestitures of U.S. and
international information technology firms, today announced that
The M&A Advisor has honored two transactions on which Marlin
advised as part of The M&A Advisor's Special "Deals of the
Decade" Celebration.
Marlin & Associates was honored at the 10th Annual M&A
Advisor Summit Awards Celebration, which was held at The Museum of
American Finance on Monday, December 12th in New York City.
Selected from ten years of M&A Advisor Award Winning
Deal-of-The-Year nominations, Marlin was honored for its role as
the exclusive financial and strategic advisor to:
- NYSE Euronext, which Marlin advised on the sale of Hugin Group
(Oslo, Norway and Paris, France) to Thomson Reuters. This
transaction originally won The M&A Advisor's Deal-of-the-Year
Award in 2010; and
- Triple Point Technology, Inc. (Stamford, CT), which Marlin
advised on its recapitalization by ABRY partners. This transaction
originally won The M&A Advisor's Financing Deal-of-the-Year
Award in 2007.
Both transactions were featured as the M&A Advisor
celebrated the best-of-the-best from their ten-year history
recognizing the leading transactions.
"It is an honor to be recognized a second time for these two
significant transactions," said Ken Marlin, Founder and Managing
Partner of Marlin & Associates. "In August 2006, we advised
Triple Point on its recapitalization by ABRY Partners, and just
this year, Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe asked us to advise
them on their acquisition of majority control of Triple Point from
ABRY and Management. In this same vein, we also worked with Hugin
twice."
"In December 2006, we advised Hugin on its sale to Euronext, in
a transaction that took place as NYSE and Euronext were merging.
Then, last year, NYSE asked us to advise them on the divestiture of
Hugin."
"We like it when we are able to work successfully with former
clients. We believe that it proves that our blend of operational
and financial experience, combined with our broad international
reach and track record of success, puts us in a formidable position
to advise a wide range of middle-market technology-enabled firms,"
Marlin added.
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 awards are made
on the basis of creativity, 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.
Marlin & Associates is one of the most active investment
banking and strategic advisory firms providing strategic and
financial advice to worldwide buyers and sellers of middle-market
technology firms. The firm is headquartered in New York, NY and has
additional offices in Washington, DC; Toronto, Canada; and Hong
Kong.
Marlin & Associates' team of professionals have advised on
more than 200 transactions in over a dozen countries 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.
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; Toronto,
Canada; and Hong Kong. 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:
- Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe of New York, NY, which
Marlin & Associates advised on its acquisition of a majority
interest in Triple Point Technology;
- Atrium Network of London, United Kingdom, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to TMX Group (TSX: X);
- NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) of New York, NY, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its acquisition of Metabit;
- Subserveo, Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to DST Systems, Inc. (NYSE:
DST);
- Photolibrary Group of Sydney, Australia, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to Getty Images, Inc.;
- NaviNet, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its acquisition of Prematics;
- Qatarlyst of Doha, Qatar, which Marlin & Associates advised
on its acquisition of London-based 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;
- Avox of Wexford Wales, UK, a majority-owned company of Deutsche
Börse (ETR: DB1), which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale
to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC);
- Strategic Analytics of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ: VRSK);
and
- Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM) of Chicago, Illinois,
which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Morningstar,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN).
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