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Dear Clients and Friends, Welcome to our February 2013 Market Update. As you will see, it provides our sense of M&A values, activity and trends for the dozen plus technology, information and healthcare sectors that we follow. February 2013 Market Update After a very busy December, we expected a fall-off in M&A activity; we were wrong. Last month, we saw a continuation of high levels of M&A activity across nearly all sectors. Strategics and financial sponsors both were active acquirers, as exemplified by: • Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV) acquired Open Solutions for $1Bn; • TPG Capital acquired Eze Castle and RealTick from…

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Dear Clients and Friends, Below is a link to our January 2013 Market Update. As you will see, it provides our sense of M&A values, activity and trends for the dozen plus technology, information and healthcare sectors that we follow. 2012 was the strongest in our ten-year history. Thanks to you, we added staff, opened a San Francisco office, won several awards and advised on significant transactions. With your support, we hope to have an even stronger 2013. Click here for our Market Update The last month of 2012 saw a flurry of M&A activity, including IntercontinentalExchange’s agreement to acquire…

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Dear Clients & Friends, The end of another year is almost upon us. Below is a link to our December 2012 Market Update. As you will see, it provides our latest 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 We hope your year has been happy, healthy and prosperous. This month we saw sizable activity announced, including Knight Capital’s takeover offer from Getco that is valued as high as $1.8Bn. However, the vast majority of transactions were well under $200M, for example FICO’s…

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Dear Clients and Friends, Below is a link to our November 2012 Market Update. As you will see, it 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 we saw multiple transactions announced with many of size but again, the vast majority of transactions well under $200M. One of these transactions involved our client DMLT, whose Investment Café is the market-leading provider of investor reporting and portal services for the alternative asset community, which was acquired by Paris-based eFront, a…

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Dear Clients and Friends, Below is a link to our October 2012 Market Update. As you will see, it 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 We continue to see strategics and financial sponsors willing to pay reasonable values for smaller (under $200M) technology-based firms that show scale, growth and a prominent position in the marketplace. We see little appetite for mega deals or for firms that are not growing. Some notable recent deals include: Wright Express (NYSE:WXS), which provides fuel…

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