Press Releases

D.A. Davidson & Co. Technology Investment Banking Group Crosses $20 Billion in Technology Transactions Year to Date

September 01, 2021

Stewart Strengthens Data and Analytics Capabilities by Announcing its Intent to Acquire Informative Research

August 26, 2021

Symphony acquires StreetLinx to offer the most complete and secure verified identity directory in financial services

August 02, 2021

Symphony to lead financial market communications with the acquisition of Cloud9 Technologies

June 24, 2021

D.A. Davidson & Co. To Acquire Marlin & Associates

June 14, 2021

Marlin completes growth equity investment in Exegy and Vela

May 20, 2021

Leeds Equity Partners and OptionMetrics Partner to Expand Options and Futures Data Solutions

April 30, 2021

Novantas and Informa's FBX Group Combine to Create New Competitive Intelligence and Solutions Company

April 26, 2021

Majesco Acquires ClaimVantage to Strengthen and Scale the L&A and Group Business

January 07, 2021

Blacksmith Applications Acquires TABS Analytics to Create Revenue Management Powerhouse

December 15, 2020

Seismic Acquires Grapevine6 to Enable Digital Sales Engagement Across Multiple Customer-Facing Social Media and Digital Platforms

December 01, 2020

Marlin & Associates Advises Hartfield, Titus & Donnelly on its Divestiture of MuniBrokers to MarketAxess

September 16, 2020

CRIF Signs Agreement to Acquire Strands

March 30, 2020

Marlin & Associates Advises Hanweck on its Sale To Cboe Global Markets

February 04, 2020

NinjaTrader Announces Majority Growth Investment led by Long Ridge Equity Partners

January 09, 2020

Escalent Acquires Javelin Strategy & Research

January 07, 2020

CRISIL to acquire Greenwich Associates LLC

December 19, 2019

Broadridge Financial buys ClearStructure Financial Technology

November 20, 2019

Kore.ai Raises Growth Capital from Vistara Capital

November 13, 2019

FNZ completes acquisition of GBST

November 06, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises StatPro Group plc on a US $230 Take-Private Transaction

September 20, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises InRule Technology on its Sale to OpenGate Capital

August 20, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises P2Sample On Its Sale To Cint

August 01, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises Zoomdata On Its Sale To Marlin Equity

June 10, 2019

Marlin & Associates Client Private Client Resources (PCR) Has Received A Majority Equity Investment From Public Pension Capital Management (PPC)

May 30, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises TABS Analytics on its Acquisition of Decision Insight

May 08, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises BidFX on Strategic Investment by SGX

March 28, 2019

Marlin & Associates Advises Sermo on Significant Investment from Abry Partners

February 13, 2019

Ken Marlin recognized by Institutional Investor among the 2018 Fintech Finance 40

November 19, 2018

Marlin & Associates Client RapidRatings Receives $30mm Growth Equity Investment

September 12, 2018

Marlin & Associates wins multiple ACQ5 Awards including: Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year and Middle-Market Investment Bank of The Year (US)

August 01, 2018

Marlin & Associates advises Aquiline Capital Partners on acquisition of RIA in a Box

June 07, 2018

Marlin & Associates wins Small Tech Fund Raising of The Year for Tier 1 CRM (US)

May 11, 2018

Marlin & Associates Advises MSCI on its sale of FEA to Allegro

April 25, 2018

empow raises $10M series B with participation of Ascent Venture Partners

April 25, 2018

Marlin & Associates Expands NYC Office with addition of Anup Agarwal as Senior Managing Director

March 16, 2018

The Fintech Finance 40: Ken Marlin

January 18, 2018

Tier1CRM Receives Significant Equity Capital to Accelerate Growth

December 11, 2017

4 Ways Politicians Can Help (or Hurt) Tech in 2017 - Ken Marlin Featured as Guest Author for Axial Forum

July 25, 2017

Marlin & Associates' Client, OptionsCity Software, Acquired by Vela Trading Technologies

July 05, 2017

Investment Metrics Announces Strategic Equity Partnership with Resurgens Technology Partners and HarbourVest Partners

June 21, 2017

Three fintech transactions, a cybersecurity deal; plus Swiss, British, Japanese and Canadian wins. Marlin & Associates announces a strong start to 2017

February 23, 2017

Marlin & Associates' client, TMX Group, has agreed to sell its wireless and extranet infrastructure services businesses to ICE

February 15, 2017

Marlin & Associates' client, QuoVadis agrees to be acquired by WISeKey (SIX: WIHN)

February 10, 2017

Marlin & Associates advises OpenGamma on multinational strategic investment – including participation from JPX

February 09, 2017

Marlin & Associates' client, Advise Technologies, acquired by Compliance Solutions Strategies, a portfolio company of CIP Capital

January 31, 2017

Ken Marlin recognized by Institutional Investor among the 2016 Fintech Finance 35

November 14, 2016

Marlin & Associates' client, M&O Systems, Inc. acquired by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

November 08, 2016

Marlin & Associates Advises BillingTree on Significant Growth Investment from Parthenon Capital Partners

October 04, 2016

Marlin & Associates' Client, iTransact acquired by Payroc

October 03, 2016

Ken Marlin Featured as Guest Author in The CEO Magazine

June 07, 2016

Marlin & Associates Winner of Cross Border Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year

April 15, 2016

Marlin & Associates Finalist for the M&A Advisor Awards

March 14, 2016

Xignite, Leading Provider of Market Data Cloud Solutions, Closes $20M Series C Funding Round Led by QUICK Corp

February 08, 2016

Sentry Acquires Agilum: Expands Financial Transparency Across the Healthcare Enterprise

January 18, 2016

Ken Marlin recognized by Institutional Investor among The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

November 09, 2015

Opus Global, Compliance and Risk Leader, Acquires Alacra

October 02, 2015

Everteam Accelerates Global Strategy with Acquisition of Intalio

September 30, 2015

Trunomi Completes Capital Raise

September 08, 2015

SS&C Acquires Varden Technologies

September 02, 2015

Aquiline Capital Partners Announces Investment in Fenergo

August 21, 2015

ACQ5 Names Marlin & Associates 2015 TMT Advisory Firm of the Year, Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year

August 11, 2015

ACQ5 Names Ken Marlin 2015 Gamechanger of the Year

August 11, 2015

Marlin & Associates' Client, Information Mosaic Limited, Has Agreed to Be Acquired by Markit Group Limited

June 02, 2015

Third Financial secures expansion capital from CIT Growth

May 07, 2015

Betterment Raises $60M in Growth Funding

February 20, 2015

Marlin & Associates' Client, AIM Software, Has Received a Majority Investment From Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe

January 15, 2015

IHS Announces Acquisition of Infonetics Research, a Global Leader in Communications Technology Market Intelligence

December 17, 2014

Marlin & Associates Named Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year

November 19, 2014

Joss Technology to be acquired by AIM Software

November 03, 2014

NICE Actimize Partners with Alacra to Integrate Compliance and Reference Data Platform Technology Into the Actimize Customer Due Diligence Anti-Money Laundering Solution

October 22, 2014

Tagetik to Accelerate Strategic Growth with $36 Million Capital Investment

July 17, 2014

Marlin & Associates' Managing Partner, Ken Marlin, Recognized Again as One of the 50 Most Influential People in Financial Technology

July 11, 2014

RevSpring Announces Talksoft Acquisition

July 09, 2014

Progressive Digital Media Group Acquisition of CurrentAnalysis Inc

July 08, 2014

Leading Boutique Investment Bank Marlin & Associates Names Jason Panzer as Chief Operating Officer

May 21, 2014

Marlin & Associates Advises Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division and Blackstone on Acquisition of Ipreo From KKR.

April 15, 2014

Blackstone and Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division to Acquire Ipreo from KKR

April 14, 2014

Intapp Acquires The Frayman Group

April 14, 2014

Marlin & Associates' client SpryWare LLC has been acquired by Pico Quantitative Trading Holdings LLC

April 08, 2014

Morningstar, Inc. Acquires ByAllAccounts, Inc., Provider of Innovative Data Aggregation Technology for Financial Applications

April 01, 2014

Marlin & Associates Finalist for Four M&A Advisor Deal-of-the-Year Awards

October 31, 2013

The NPD Group to Acquire Leisure Trends Retail Sales Tracking and Consumer Research for Sports and Recreation; New Business Will Offer Broad Channel Coverage Plus Deep Consumer Insight

October 15, 2013

CameronTec Agrees to Buy Greenline

October 01, 2013

Three Marlin & Associates Transactions Named Finalist for ACG New York Champion€™s Awards

June 07, 2013

Two Marlin & Associates Transactions Named International Deals-of-the-Year

May 15, 2013

Five Marlin & Associates Transactions Named Finalist for International Deal-of-the-Year Awards

April 17, 2013

Marlin & Associates advises Bain Capital Ventures on one of the Year€™s Most significant Healthcare Technology Transactions

March 08, 2013

Marlin & Associates Advises on Three Significant Transactions

January 09, 2013

SR Labs Secures $53 Million Investment from Insight Venture Partners

January 08, 2013

Elsevier Acquires Knovel

January 07, 2013

SunGard Acquires XcitekSolutionsPlus, LLC

January 07, 2013

Marlin & Associates Nominated for M&A Advisor's Boutique Investment Bank of the Year and a Finalist for Five Deal-of-the-Year Awards

November 16, 2012

eFront Announces the Acquisition of DMLT

October 12, 2012

Marlin & Associates Named USA TMT Advisory Firm of the Year

August 07, 2012

TS-Associates acquires Correlix

July 30, 2012

Ideas International Recommends Cash Takeover Offer by Gartner

June 04, 2012

CRISIL to acquire Coalition, UK-based Analytics Firm

June 01, 2012

IHS Acquires IMS Research

March 22, 2012

NYSE Euronext Announces Acquisition of Strategic Shareholder Interest in Fixnetix

February 16, 2012

Blues Plans, Lumeris Partner to Acquire Nation€™s Largest Real-time Health Care Communication Network

February 14, 2012

Marlin & Associates Honored for Advising on Two Significant Transactions

December 20, 2011

ABRY Completes Sale of Triple Point Technology, Inc

October 28, 2011

Marlin & Associates Nominated as International Boutique Investment Bank of the Year

September 20, 2011

TMX Group Acquires Atrium Network

August 04, 2011

Marlin & Associates' client NYSE Euronext acquires Japan-based Metabit

August 02, 2011

Marlin & Associates Managing Partner named in Institutional Investor€™s Annual List of Top Executives, Entrepreneurs and Innovators in Financial Technology

July 21, 2011

Marlin & Associates Opens Hong Kong Office and Names Industry Veteran Robert Agnew to Lead Asian Team

July 06, 2011

Marlin & Associates Honored for Six €œDeal-Of-The-Year€ Awards

June 23, 2011

DST Systems, Inc. Acquires Subserveo, Inc

June 20, 2011

Getty Images Acquires Photolibrary To Expand Digital Content Offering

May 04, 2011

Marlin & Associates Nominated for Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year

April 27, 2011

Marlin & Associates Honored for Advising on Two More €˜Deal of the Year€™ M&A Transactions

January 07, 2011

Marlin & Associates€™ Client Qatar Insurance Services Acquires RI3K (London)

December 08, 2010

NaviNet Acquires Prematics

December 07, 2010

Marlin & Associates Honored for Advising on Two

December 06, 2010

IHS Closes Acquisition of iSuppli Corporation

December 03, 2010

The Healthcare IT Market will soon consolidate into a small handful of superstores €“ Marlin & Associates issues Market Commentary on Top Trends for Healthcare IT

November 10, 2010

Qatarlyst takes strategic step forward with acquisition of RI3K

November 07, 2010

Marlin & Associates Nominated for Seven M&A Advisor Awards

November 05, 2010

Marlin & Associates' Managing Partner inducted into Inside Market Data Hall of Fame

November 05, 2010

iSuppli agreed to be acquired by IHS

November 02, 2010

Marlin & Associates Earns Two International Deal-of-the-Year Awards

November 01, 2010

NASDAQ OMX Acquires SMARTS

July 27, 2010

Marlin & Associates' Partner Maxworthy Recognized as one of the Leading Young M&A, Financing and Turnaround Professionals Under 40

July 22, 2010

SWIFT Acquires Ambit Messaging Hub from SUNGARD

July 19, 2010

Deutsche Börse Sells its majority interest in Avox to Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

July 01, 2010

Marlin & Associates Earns Three Middle Market Financing €œDeal of the Year€ Awards

June 23, 2010

Invictus Financial Sells Operating Company

June 11, 2010

Marlin & Associates Named Finalist for Middle-Market Boutique Investment Bank of the Year

May 27, 2010

SNL Financial Ranks Marlin & Associates Among the Most Active Advisors of Financial Technology Companies

May 04, 2010

Verisk Analytics Acquires Strategic Analytics

March 01, 2010

Marlin & Associates Adds Healthcare Industry Veteran as a Senior Advisor

January 19, 2010

M&A Client Logical Information Machines Agrees To Sell To Morningstar

December 14, 2009

Marlin & Associates adds former Chairman and CEO of Saxo Bank Asia, as a Senior Advisor

November 18, 2009

Marlin & Associates Adds Senior Technology Banker, Afsaneh Naimollah, to Lead Its Technology Investment Banking Practice

November 09, 2009

Marlin & Associates Nominated as Middle-Market Boutique Investment Bank of the Year

October 27, 2009

NYSE Euronext Agrees to Sell Hugin Group to Thomson Reuters

September 22, 2009

Marlin & Associates Named a Finalist for Three Global M&A Awards

August 27, 2009

Thomson Reuters Acquires M&A Client Vhayu Technologies

August 03, 2009

Standard & Poor's, A Division of McGraw-Hill, Sells Vista Research to Guidepoint Global

May 22, 2009

Marlin & Associates Honored for Advising on M&A Transactions During Turbulent Times

March 23, 2009

Boutique Investment Banking Firm Marlin & Associates Expands Staff, Adds Two Senior Members, Opens Toronto Office

January 20, 2009

Big Fish Among Sharks

January 05, 2009

Morningstar, Inc. Acquires UK-Based Tenfore Systems Limited, a Global Provider of Real-Time Data Feeds and Financial Data Workstations

December 17, 2008

Stockhouse Engages Marlin & Associates

September 11, 2008

Marlin & Associates Among Leading Cross-Atlantic Tech Investment Banks

July 28, 2008

Mealey's conferences sold to Bus. Valuation Resources

July 01, 2008

Marlin & Associates Earns Four M&A Forum Award

June 19, 2008

Microsoft Maneuvering

May 19, 2008

IBM Acquires M&A Client, InfoDyne, to Create World-Class Platform for Market Data Delivery

April 29, 2008

Marlin & Associates Relocates to the Top of 600 Lexington Avenue

April 24, 2008

Netik completes Buyout from The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and Acquires Capco Reference Data Services with private equity investment from Symphony Technology Group

February 12, 2008

Netik Targets Service model with Capco Reference Data Services Buy, Symphony as New Majority Investor

February 11, 2008

BankRate Announces Two Acquisitions: InsureMe, Inc. and Lower Fees, Inc

February 05, 2008

Tech Merger Meter 2007

January 16, 2008

Boutique Investment Banking Firm Marlin & Associates Strengthens Executive Team

January 04, 2008

The Future of M&A

January 01, 2008

Morningstar, Inc. to Acquire Hemscott Businesses from Ipreo Holdings, LLC

December 17, 2007

Marlin & Associates Earns four M&A Advisor Awards

December 13, 2007

Marlin & Associates Investment Banker Michael Maxworthy Named to Investment Dealer”s Digest Magazine”s "40 Under 40"

December 12, 2007

Boutique Investment Banking firm Marlin & Associates adds Former PwC Associate

September 27, 2007

Reuters To Acquire Analytics Company StarMine

August 21, 2007

One-on-one with Michael Maxworthy

August 07, 2007

Marlin & Associates Earns Four Awards at The M&A Advisor Conference

July 11, 2007

Fidelity National Information Services Acquires Applied Financial Technology

June 25, 2007

Ventyx Acquires Global Energy Decisions

June 14, 2007

Euronext€™s Acquisition of Hugin ASA Chosen as a Finalist for "Acquisition of the Year"

May 10, 2007

Interactive Data to Acquire Xcitek Market Data

April 04, 2007

M&A to Sponsor Legaltech New York 2007

January 18, 2007

M&A to Sponsor Information Industry Summit

January 18, 2007

Tech Merger Meter 2006

December 29, 2006

"Financial Technology Deal of the Year" Awarded to Marlin & Associates

December 13, 2006

Euronext Agrees to Acquire Hugin ASA

December 13, 2006

Investment Bank 'Marlin & Associates' Sponsors SIIA's 'Global Information Industry Summit'

October 20, 2006

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October 20, 2006

Boutique Investment Banking firm Marlin & Associates adds Former J.P Morgan investment banker

September 05, 2006

ABRY Leads Recapitalization of Triple Point Technology Inc.

August 17, 2006

Marlin & Associates, Doubles Business This Year with Completion of 10th Financial Technology M&A Transaction

June 05, 2006

Brainpower N.V. Agrees to be Acquired by Bloomberg L.P.

April 10, 2006

Bloomberg Buys Brainpower In More Ways Than One

April 01, 2006

FactSet Research Systems Acquires europrospectus.com limited

February 27, 2006

Strategic Intelligence for the Securities & Investment Industry

January 23, 2006

M&A Is Back: Marlin Expounds On Expediency in Exit Plans

January 01, 2006

Orc Software Makes Strategic Acquisition in the FIX Technology Area

December 28, 2005

Acquisition of Beauchamp Financial Technology

November 29, 2005

Taking Stock of Tech Vendor Marketplace

November 08, 2005

Marlin & Associates Chooses IntraLinks as Provider of Virtual Data Rooms

October 25, 2005

The NPD Group Acquires DisplaySearch

October 03, 2005

SoftBrands raises $18 million

August 18, 2005

FactSet Research Systems Acquires Derivative Solutions

August 02, 2005

The Thomson Corporation Acquires Global Securities Information, Inc.

July 21, 2005

Jonathan Gilbert to join M&A to Expand Leading IT M&A Capabilities

July 14, 2005

Fiserv Acquires Interactive Technologies Inc., World Wide Leader Developer of Fee Management and Billing Software

June 13, 2005

Financial models is acquired by SS&C Technologies

February 25, 2005

GovPX is acquired by ICAP plc

January 13, 2005

Tech Merger Meter

December 23, 2004

Ken Marlin, Managing Partner of M&A to moderate opening panel at 2005 Information Industry Summit

November 15, 2004

George Beckerman joins M&A to lead Mid-Atlantic office

November 12, 2004

Dealing for Disney

February 13, 2004

Paul Friday has been named...

October 06, 2003

M&A Announces the addition of Senior Technology Investment Banker

September 30, 2003

Tech firms get urge to merge

June 15, 2003

FCC was right to relax ownership rules

June 13, 2003

Should we relax rules for buying media properties

June 01, 2003

Relief Ahead for M&A?

May 08, 2003

Digital River acquires Infocon America

April 23, 2003

Ken Marlin to join opening general session at Software Industry's Annual Conference

April 15, 2003

M&A Announces Financial Information Veteran to join the Investment Banking Team

February 20, 2003

M&A Announces Addition of Former Dow Jones Executive to Investment Banking Team

February 05, 2003

Cibelli may make Hoover€™s bid

January 15, 2003

€œM&A Trends for 2003€ Publisher's Note (For PDF version click here)

December 23, 2002

Reuters Acquires Capital Access International

December 02, 2002

Education Sector Investment Hope & Evidence

November 01, 2002

ScreamingMedia Acquires Inlumen Inc.

October 29, 2002

ScreamingMedia to buy Inlumen

October 29, 2002

Brave Hearts

August 06, 2002

Ex-Veronis Suhler Banker Forms Firm Targeting Software M&A

May 06, 2002

€œLets make a Deal€

May 01, 2002

Look For More M&A Action Among Strategic Data, Software Buyers

April 01, 2002

Movers and Shakers

January 03, 2002

Marlin Leaves Veronis Suhler To Set Up Venture

December 10, 2001