Archive for Author: Marlin & Associates

Yesterday, our client, London-based, Atrium Network, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by TMX Group, Canada’s leading operator of exchanges and related services.  The TMX Group press release follows. We thought you would be interested. This is the second successfully completed cross-border transaction on which we have advised in the past two weeks and our fourth international transaction in the past four months. We acted as exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Atrium Network.

Yesterday, our client, NYSE Euronext announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Metabit, a leading Tokyo-based provider of high performance market access products throughout Japan and Asia. We were pleased to be the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to NYSE Euronext on a transaction that helps advance their strategy in Asia and adds technical capability to their service. For more information, the NYSE Euronext Press Release can be viewed here. Some of our other recent cross-border transactions in this same arena include: advising Subserveo (Vancouver, Canada) on its sale to DST Systems, Inc; advising Qatar Insurance…

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We’re proud to announce the Institutional Investor (“II”), the international publisher focused primarily on international finance, named our Founding Partner, Ken Marlin, as one of II’s Tech 50, which this year honors the 50 most “disruptive” figures in the financial technology sector. II called these 50 people disrupters because they’re changing the way Wall Street does business. See the article here: The-Disrupters-Institutional-Investors-Tech-50. Other “Disrupters” named include: Reto Francioni and Duncan Niederauer, CEOs of Deutsche Börse and the NYSE Euronext; Joe Ratterman, President and CEO of BATS Global Markets; Robert Greifeld, CEO Nasdaq OMX; Seth Merrin, CEO Liquidnet; Michael Spencer, CEO…

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Today our client, Subserveo, Inc. (“Subserveo”), a Vancouver, B.C.-based provider of automated compliance and surveillance solutions to broker-dealers and investment advisors throughout the U.S. and Canada, was acquired by DST Systems, Inc. (NYSE:DST – News). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Subserveo, which provides broker-dealers with access to an affordable, rules-based automated compliance solution, will be operated as part of the recently launched DST Brokerage Solutions, further underscoring DST’s commitment to the brokerage marketplace and its vision to address broker-dealers’ unique challenges through an expanded platform of products and solutions. Subserveo will go to market as DST Subserveo in…

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