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Archive for Author: Ken Marlin

Mar 23, 2018

Private Equity is Bullish on Enterprise Data and Analytics. Our March M&A Update.

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Dear Clients and Friends, The report found here gives our sense of the current m&a trends, values and deals in the four segments of the Enterprise Data and Analytics sector that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our March 2018 M&A update. A month ago, we noted the acquisition of 55% of Thomson Reuters by Blackstone Group – valuing the firm at $20bn. In a news cycle that includes Qualcomm‘s attempted/aborted $130bn takeover of Broadcom, the Thomson Reuters deal didn’t give rise to much press. But we noticed. In the Enterprise Data and Analytics world a $20bn transaction is huge.…

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Mar 14, 2018

Capital Markets Infrastructure: Unsexy – and Yet Hot. Our March 2018 Fintech Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our latest Fintech m&a report can be found here. It highlights m&a trends and transactions in the seven segments of the Fintech world that we follow and sometimes lead. Please see our March Fintech report here. Close followers of our Fintech newsletters will know that one of the Fintech sectors we follow closely is Capital Markets Infrastructure. It may not be a sexy segment. But, from an m&a perspective, it’s hot. A few weeks ago, McKinsey came out with a 30-page report on the segment – titled: Fintech Decoded:  Capturing the opportunity in capital markets infrastructure.…

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Mar 7, 2018

Politicians, School Shootings, Crypto-Currencies, and Some Would-be Acquirers: Case Studies in Wishful Thinking. Our March 2018 Market Update.

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our report found here contains an update on m&a deals, values, and trends in the dozen+ segments of the information technology industry that we follow, and sometimes lead. Please click here for our March Market Update. These days the world seems filled with wishful thinkers; politicians who wish away deficits while cutting taxes and increasing public spending; activists who wish two-thirds of the US House of Representatives and Senate (and three-quarters of the States) would vote to repeal the Second Amendment; those who wish school shootings would end while rejecting any meaningful changes to gun-ownership laws;…

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Feb 23, 2018

5 Rules A Marine Would Use To Ensure A Tech M&A Deal Adds Value. Our February 2018 Enterprise Data and Analytics M&A Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, The report found here gives our sense of the current m&a trends, values and deals in the four segments of the Enterprise Data and Analytics sector that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our February 2018 Enterprise Data and Analytics M&A update. A recent BCG study analyzed 37,000+ tech m&a deals over the past few years and concluded that only about half of them generated positive “Cumulative Abnormal Returns” (“CAR”). To us, that implies that acquirers are victims of chance. We beg to differ. Marines know that “luck” has little to do with…

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Feb 15, 2018

Pigs Get Slaughtered. Our February 2018 Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our report found here contains an update on m&a deals, values, and trends in the dozen+ segments of the information technology industry that we follow, and sometimes lead. Please click here for our latest February Market Update. There’s an old saying in our business: Bulls and Bears make money; Pigs get slaughtered. We are living in good times: in spite of a recent pull back, global equity markets are still up more than 20% over the past 12 months; there is something like a trillion dollars of unspent capital committed to financial sponsors and in the…

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