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Archive for Tag: Marlin

May 28, 2008

My First SIFMA Show

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Today our Managing Partner wrote a piece for the A-TeamGroup. I’ve been attending the show now for more than 20 years. When I first started in the mid-1980s, the show was dominated by content companies. As now, there were 3-4 really big players and hundreds of smaller ones. Reuters has been a constant among the larger players. But, back in 1985, Thomson had not yet embarked on the series of acquisitions that created Thomson Financial. Dun & Bradstreet had just bought Datastream of the UK and then Interactive Data (I led those deals). McGraw Hill had a number of entrants…

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Apr 24, 2008

Marlin & Associates Relocates to the Top of 600 Lexington Avenue

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Today we announced that effective May 1st, it will relocate the firm’s headquarters to 600 Lexington Avenue, where it will occupy the building’s 36th floor. The firm will continue to maintain its office in metropolitan Washington, D.C. “This move gives us space to significantly increase our professional staff and create a more comfortable working environment for us and our clients,” says Ken Marlin, M&A’s Managing Partner. Fans of public transportation will appreciate that M&A’s new headquarters, at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street, is nine short blocks north of Grand Central Terminal and is located near exits for three…

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Feb 12, 2008

Analysts Say Microsoft-Yahoo Mating Dance Has Only Just Begun

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Today our Managing Partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a disucssion of Yahoo’s rehection of Microsoft’s bid for MediaBuyerPlanner. Yahoo’s formal rejection of Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid left the door open to give Yahoo management a chance to propose a plan to boost the stock above Microsoft’s bid, to solicit rival offers, and to attempt to raise the offering price from Microsoft, analysts say. Microsoft is not believed to have put its final offer on the table. “What Microsoft wants is someone to sit down and negotiate with them,” Ken Marlin, managing partner of Marlin & Associates, is quoted as…

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Feb 11, 2008

Despite rebuff, Microsoft to press on with Yahoo bid

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin was quoted discussing Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by Jessica Guynn for The Los Angeles Times. The takeover target says the $44.6–billion unsolicited offer is too low. After being rebuffed by Yahoo Inc. today, Microsoft Corp. fired back by saying it planned to move quickly and by whatever means necessary to clinch the deal to buy the Internet company. It did not elaborate on what steps it planned to take, but called its $44.6–billion offer “full and fair.” Analysts have said Microsoft could sweeten its offer, nominate it own slate of directors to Yahoo’s board…

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Feb 10, 2008

Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by Michael Liedtke for AP News. Yahoo Inc.’s board will reject Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday. The decision could provoke a showdown between two of the world’s most prominent technology companies with Internet search leader Google Inc. looming in the background. Leery of Microsoft expanding its turf on the Internet, Google already has offered to help Yahoo avert a takeover and urged antitrust regulators to…

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