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Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our April 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 majority of transactions well under $200M. One of these involved our client, IMS Research, which was acquired by IHS, a leading global source of information and analytics. IMS Research is a leading independent supplier of market research and a consultancy to the global electronics…

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Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our March 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 M&A announced two transactions on which we advised: In the Financial Technology sector, we advised NYSE Euronext on the acquisition of minority interest in Fixnetix Ltd (London, UK). And in the Healthcare IT vertical, we advised Navinet, Inc., on the sale to Lumeris Corporation, the innovative, cloud-based health IT provider; Pittsburgh-based, Highmark…

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Dear Clients and Friends, Today, our client NaviNet, the nation’s largest real-time healthcare communication network, signed an agreement to be acquired by Lumeris Corporation, the innovative, cloud-based health IT provider; Pittsburgh-based, Highmark Inc., Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon), and southeastern Pennsylvania’s Independence Blue Cross (IBC). We are pleased to have been the financial advisor to NaviNet on this multi-party, transformative transaction. NaviNet securely links leading health plans, industry partners and the government to hundreds of thousands of physicians, clinicians and other healthcare professionals. More than 75 percent of the nation’s physicians are enrolled in the NaviNet…

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Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our February 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 many small to midsize transactions and few of size – this reinforces our belief that strategics and financial sponsors are showing a willingness to pay reasonable values for complimentary firms that show scale, growth, and proprietary technology, but remain somewhat risk averse when it comes to larger deals.  We did…

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Below is a link to our January 2012 Market Update. As you will see, it provides our latest sense of M&A values, activity and trends. This month, to reflect our increased activity in Asia, we have added a sector for Asia Pacific technology companies (see page 17). Click here for our Market Update 2012 seems to be starting much as 2011, with credit markets relatively tight but plenty of interest in firms that have scale, growth, and proprietary technology.  As you will see in the pages that follow – for 2011, overall transaction volume in the sectors we serve increased…

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