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May 21, 2014

Marlin & Associates names Jason Panzer as Chief Operating Officer

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Today, we announced that Jason Panzer has been promoted to the created position of Chief Operating Officer, reporting to our founder and Managing Partner, Ken Marlin. We’re all pleased  for Jason.  He has been a partner at M&A for more than six years.  He began his career as a lawyer in the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Skadden, Arps, where he worked on dozens of transactions including public and private mergers, stock/asset acquisitions, tender offers, LBOs and private equity investments. Later, he spent 3 years as the CFO of JCF Group, the Paris-based provider of global earnings-estimates. In 2004, Jason…

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May 14, 2014

May Market Update Highlights

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Is it 2007 redux? Cash sitting on balance sheets is at record highs; interest rates are low; and banks are lending at multiples we haven’t seen in years. The result: so far this year there has been more than $49bn in announced m&a transactions, more than double the value in the same period last year, according to Bloomberg. And the big keep getting bigger: Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $19bn and Oculus for $2bn; Google bought NEST for $3.2bn; IBM bought Silverpop on the heels of their March acquisition of Cloudant. It’s not 2007. But it is a busy time.…

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Jan 14, 2014

Marlin & Associates: January Market Update

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Welcome to 2014!  It’s a New Year and a new beginning for many of our friends and clients who transacted in recent months. Click here for our Market Update Each year, we are asked for our forecast for M&A activity and values.  Usually I demur. This year, I’m happy to go out on a limb.  2014 will be a year for extremely strong values – but only for a subset of sellers.  Strategic and financial players have plenty of cash and desire; and banks are willing to lend.  But the demand is primarily for companies with scale, defensible proprietary advantages,…

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Jan 10, 2014

H.I.T. Greatest Hits- January Healthcare IT Review

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Happy New Year to our Clients and Friends, It is that time of the year to look in our crystal ball and share our top predictions for 2014 — here is what we see in the healthcare IT landscape. Click here for the H.I.T. Greatest Hits Revenues for healthcare technology companies will grow 8-10%, with some sectors, such as data analytics, growing at a much faster rate. We anticipate 3-5% growth in healthcare services expenditures. The confluence of ICD-10 adoption and value-based reimbursement coupled with continuing cutbacks in Medicare rates, all point to a challenging 2014 for the providers, even…

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Dec 10, 2013

Marlin & Associates: December Market Update

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Dear Clients and Friends, Welcome to our December 2013 Market Update which provides our sense of M&A values, activity and trends for the dozen plus technology, information and healthcare sectors that we follow. Click here for our Market Update This month, IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc (NYSE:ICE) announced the completion of its $11 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX). ICE also announced its acquisition of Singapore Mercantile Exchange for $150 million. We expect further deal announcements in the upcoming months. Over the years we have advised several exchanges including: NYSE Euronext, NASDAQ and Deutsche Börse. We look forward to continue involvement in this…

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