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Below is a link to our November 2011 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 There were several notable transactions in October, including: Oracle agreed to acquire two companies: –      Customer experience management provider Rightnow Technologies for $1.5B; and –      Data management provider Endeca (price not disclosed); Lexmark agreed to acquire BPM provider Pallas Athena for $50.2M; Parseq agreed to a takeover deal valued at $46.1M, led by CEO, Nova Partners…

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Below is a link to our October 2011 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 There were several notable transactions in September, including: IBM agreed to acquire risk analytics software provider Algorithmics for $387M; Reed Elsevier agreed to acquire Accuity, which provides global payment routing data for £343M; GTCR agreed to acquire transaction processing software provider Fundtech for $353M, with the latter abandoning its plans to merge with S1 (originally announced in June);…

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Dear Clients & Friends, Below is a link to our September 2011 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 There were several sizable transactions in August, including: Hewlett Packard agreed to acquire UK information management software provider Autonomy for £6.2Bn; Datatel, Inc, a company that provides technology products to universities and SunGard Higher Education signed definitive agreements to combine their businesses and operate as one separate company in a $1.8Bn transaction sponsored by…

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Below is a link to our latest Market Update.   As you will see, the active pace of m&a activity as well as relatively strong values continued this month for companies in most of the dozen plus technology, information and healthcare sectors that we follow. (Of course this was before last week’s market correction.) There were several interesting transactions completed in July, including: Blackstone Group acquired a controlling stake in Emdeon valued at $2.2Bn; CVC Capital acquired ConvergEx Group for a rumored $1.9Bn; Providence Equity Partners acquired Blackboard for $1.6Bn; Western Union acquired Travelex Global Business Payments (TGBP) for £606M; DST…

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We recently issued our May 2011 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. April was a busy month, with several firms announcing multiple deals (including Apax Partners, Computershare and IHS). We hope you will find this month’s newsletter useful. We are always available to answer questions.