Archive for Category: Newsletter

Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our September 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 the vast majority of transactions again well under $200M. We continue to see strategics and financial sponsors willing to pay reasonable values for technology-based firms that show scale, growth and a prominent position in the marketplace. Some notable recent deals include: IBM (NYSE:IBM) agreed to acquire…

Read More

Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our August 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, again, the vast majority of transactions well under $200M. One of these involved our client, Correlix, Inc., which was acquired by TS-Associates plc. This was our sixth transaction in the first seven months of the year. Correlix is a capital markets software company that provides a…

Read More

Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our July 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 Some notable recent deals include: Dell agreed to acquire Quest Software for $2.4Bn; Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing agreed to acquire London Metal Exchange for £1.4Bn ($2.2Bn); Vista Equity acquired Misys for £1.3Bn ($2.0Bn) which it then merged with its Turaz business (the renamed Reuters Kondor, which it had acquired only a few months…

Read More

Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our June 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, again, many transactions well under $200M. One of these transactions involved our client, London-based Coalition Development Ltd., which has agreed to be acquired by Mumbai-based CRISIL, Ltd., a leading research and analytics firm and the world’s largest provider of equity and fixed income research services. Coalition…

Read More

Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our May 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, again, many transactions well under $200M. One of these involved our client, Ideas International, which has agreed to be acquired by Gartner, a leading global source of information and research. Ideas International is a leading independent supplier of IT market research, based in Hornsby, Australia, and represents…

Read More