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Dear Clients and Friends: As our Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we take the opportunity to say thank you for one of the best years we have had in our nearly 18 years (!) of advising buyers and sellers of middle-market firms that offer enterprise and vertical application software, services, data and analytics – including the many managers of firms operating in the broad b2b FinTech ecosystem. We thank you for your trust! 2019 has been one for our record books: 12 successfully closed m&a transactions to date (the year isn’t over yet); counterparties in five countries: US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Sweden…

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Dear Clients and Friends, The FinTech, Data and Analytics world in which we live is not defined by national borders and neither are we. It always amazes us how many people have difficulty accepting this fairly simple concept. A few recent examples include Deutsche Börse’s acquisition of Axioma (we advised Goldman Sachs on its minority investment in Axioma); the Hong Kong Exchange’s recent (now aborted) attempt to acquire the London Stock Exchange (LSE); LSE’s agreement to acquire Refinitiv and our work advising UK-based StatPro Group (LSE: SOG) on its sale to Confluence Technologies in a $230 million transaction with backing…

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Dear Clients and Friends, Our August 2019 report on recent m&a transactions, trends, and valuations in the seven segments of the FinTech, Data and Analytics world that we follow and sometimes lead can be found here. According to Deloitte’s annual study of M&A activity, 73 percent of tech sector executives expect more and bigger deals this year – the highest percentage of any industry. A lot of these deals bear little relevance to our world. Sure, IBM is acquiring RedHat, the open-source enterprise software company for $33 billion; Capgemini is paying $4 billion for Altran; and Broadcom is buying CA…

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