As of September 1, 2021, we are pleased to be part of D.A. Davidson & Co. We will continue serving our clients as part of their full-service Investment Banking Group. Click here to learn more about our combined strengths.
×

Blog

Feb 15, 2018

Pigs Get Slaughtered. Our February 2018 Market Update

In the News, Market Update, Newsletter, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Dear Clients and Friends, Our report found here contains an update on m&a deals, values, and trends in the dozen+ segments of the information technology industry that we follow, and sometimes lead. Please click here for our latest February Market Update. There’s an old saying in our business: Bulls and Bears make money; Pigs get slaughtered. We are living in good times: in spite of a recent pull back, global equity markets are still up more than 20% over the past 12 months; there is something like a trillion dollars of unspent capital committed to financial sponsors and in the…

Read More

Feb 7, 2018

One $20 Billion Deal – and Four Big-Money Fintech Bets in 2018. Our February M&A Update

Fintech 0 Comments

Dear Clients and Friends, Our latest Fintech m&a report can be found here. It highlights m&a trends and transactions in the seven segments of the Fintech world that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our February Fintech Market Update. Clearly, the big deal this month is Blackstone (together with Canada Pension Fund and Singapore’s GIC) buying 55% of Thomson Reuters’ financial information business (commonly referred to as “Reuters”, even though the original Newswire business is not part of the transaction.) At around US$20 billion (including debt), this is Blackstone Group’s largest deal since the financial crisis, and…

Read More

Jan 26, 2018

The Chinese Are Coming. Our January 2018 Enterprise Data and Analytics M&A Update

Enterprise Data, Fintech, Newsletter 0 Comments

Dear Clients and Friends, The report found here gives our sense of the current m&a trends, values and deals in the four segments of the Enterprise Data and Analytics sector that we follow and sometimes lead. Please click here for our January Enterprise Data and Analytics Market Update. There can be no doubt that this market is large and growing. Harvard Business Review recently said that 85% of those surveyed in the Fortune 1000 have started, or plan to start, Big Data usage. According to IDC, global revenues for Big Data and business analytics are estimated to grow 12% annually…

Read More

Jan 21, 2018

What Does Healthcare Have In Store for 2018? Here Are Our Predictions.

Healthcare IT, Healthcare Newsletter, Market Update, Newsletter 0 Comments

Dear Clients and Friends, Read more from our January 2018 HIT Market Update here. Once again it is time to try our hand at predicting the trends that will shape the course of the New Year. Here is our Part I. A different approach to risk management will drive the largest partnerships and M&A transactions. The pending CVS/Aetna and Humana/Kindred acquisitions are not about reducing duplicate costs or adding customers to increase scale. They are about the need to offer a more complete service. The argument is that control over value chain will translate into a more efficient organization with…

Read More

Jan 18, 2018

The Fintech Finance 40: Ken Marlin

Award, Fintech, In the News, Market Update, New M&A Addition, Press Release, Trends 0 Comments

For the fifth year in a row, Institutional Investor has named Ken Marlin as one of the most influential people in fintech finance. Marlin wrote in his 2016 book, The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street, that “successful deals come about as a result of disciplined planning, preparation, and execution — not luck,” and he considers that a guiding principle of Marlin & Associates, the New York–based boutique investment bank he formed in 2002. He reflects, however, on how chance occurrences caused him to change a plan that would have put him on the 106th floor of the…

Read More

Back to Top