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Archive for Category: In the News

Sep 1, 2010

Marlin Quoted in Deal Driver- Financial Services

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Today our managing partner Ken Marlin was quoted in a discussion of the the new Financial Reform Act by Monique Lewis for Deal Drivers -Financial Services. Financial Reform Act will push smaller banks to sell, while FDIC deals get tougher to do. As the Financial Reform Act is put into action, buyers and sellers will approach M&A cautiously. “There will be a lot of M&A activity but not in the next six months. Buyers still have options to merge via assisted deals with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC),” he added. In the past six months, the FDIC forced many…

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Aug 16, 2010

Bringing the Government Printing Office into the digital world

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Today our George Beckerman was quoted in a discussion of digitized documents by the Washington Post. When Mike Wash left his private-sector job in 2004 to join the federal government, he had a big job ahead of him: put government online for the American people. As Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Wash has fulfilled this vision, leading the charge to digitize federal documents, which number in the tens of millions, so that they are easier to access by the American people. George Beckerman of Marlin & Associates, a strategic advisory firm whose clients make use…

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Aug 2, 2010

Nasdaq Deal Puts Surveillance in Spotlight

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Today our firm was mentioned as the advisor to SMARTS Group in a discussion of its impending sale to Nasdaq OMS by Institutional Investor. Nasdaq OMX Group has agreed to acquire Smarts Group, a long-established leader in the market surveillance technology that is becoming increasingly critical in rooting out illegal or improper exchange and brokerage transactions. The July 27 agreement, for undisclosed terms, will add what Nasdaq describes as “the most proven and widely adopted surveillance solutions in the world” to the offerings of the Nasdaq market technology business, which has more than 70 exchange and other securities-infrastructure customers in…

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Sep 25, 2009

Something to tweet about: Twitter valued at $1B

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Today our managing partner Ken Marlin was quoted in a discussion of twitter’s valuation by Michael Liedtke for AP News. Twitter Inc.’s founders now have a billion-dollar baby, and they seem determined to raise it without a corporate parent. That was the message underlying Friday’s news that Twitter has lined up $100 million to finance its operations while founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone plot ways to make money off one of the Internet’s most popular communications tools. The investment values the 3-year-old company at $1 billion, even though it has yet to generate any meaningful revenue, let alone profits.…

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Jul 23, 2009

Apax Partners To Use All Equity In $571M Bankrate Deal

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Today our managing partner Ken Marlin was quoted in a discussion of Bankrate Inc by Sasha Dai and Kathy Shwiff for The Wall Street Journal. Apax Partners has agreed to acquire personal-finance Web site Bankrate Inc. in a $571 million deal that is especially notable because it is all equity. Bankrate got its start about 30 years ago as a print publisher of the newsletter Bank Rate Monitor, and through 1996 it was primarily a print publication business. In 1996, it started up Bankrate.com, and has built up its online operations over time, including with several acquisitions in 2008. The…

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