Archive for Author: Ken Marlin

Dear Clients and Friends, Our August 2019 report on recent m&a transactions, trends, and valuations in the seven segments of the FinTech, Data and Analytics world that we follow and sometimes lead can be found here. According to Deloitte’s annual study of M&A activity, 73 percent of tech sector executives expect more and bigger deals this year – the highest percentage of any industry. A lot of these deals bear little relevance to our world. Sure, IBM is acquiring RedHat, the open-source enterprise software company for $33 billion; Capgemini is paying $4 billion for Altran; and Broadcom is buying CA…

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Dear Clients and Friends, A buyer’s rationale on the price paid for a business isn’t always so obvious. In January, Fiserv acquired First Data Corporation for around $22 billion, 2x revenue; in March, Fidelity National bought WorldPay for around $43 billion, 10x revenue. In April, Deutsche Börse and General Atlantic teamed up to acquire Axioma for around 8x revenue. It’s clear that FinTech, data and analytics companies trade at widely divergent valuation multiples. And yet, we keep hearing bankers try to apply the multiples achieved by one company to estimate the value of another. Many factors impact value, but, for…

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Dear Clients and Friends, We are pleased to announce another successful m&a transaction on which we advised. Marlin & Associates was the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Zoomdata, a modern business intelligence and data visualization platform for cloud, big data, live streaming data, multisource and embedded analytics that is used by leading global Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, healthcare, and telecom industries, on its sale to Logi Analytics, a portfolio company of Marlin Equity Partners and a leading enterprise analytics and data visualization platform. Backed by several leading financial sponsors including Accel, Goldman Sachs, and NEA, Zoomdata…

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We are pleased to announce another successful m&a transaction on which we advised. Marlin & Associates was the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to London-based Preqin Limited, the financial data and information company, on their divestiture of Preqin Solutions (formerly Baxon Solutions), which provides leading-edge, cloud-based portfolio management solutions for the private equity industry, to Dynamo Software Inc., a Massachusetts-based provider of cloud-based software for the alternative investments community. Mark O’Hare, founder and CEO of Preqin Limited said: “We chose the Marlin team for their deep understanding of our business and it was clearly the right choice for this transaction”.…

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