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Marlin & Associates Earns Three Middle Market Financing Deal of the Year Awards

NEW YORK, NY (June 23, 2010): Marlin & Associates, the boutique investment banking and strategic advisory firm, today announced that the firm has been recognized with "Deal of the Year" awards for advising on three recent transactions. The awards were presented Monday at the 5th Annual "Middle-Market Financing Awards" Gala at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL.

Marlin & Associates received awards for advising on:

• "Financial Services Deal of the Year"
• "Professional Services Deal of the Year"
• "Information Technology Deal of the Year"

"We are both pleased and humbled to have three deals, on which we advised to be recognized as 'Deal of the Year,'" said Ken Marlin, Managing Partner of Marlin & Associates. "We work hard on behalf of all of our clients and it is gratifying to have that effort be noticed by our peers."

"In these tough economic times we should praise these firms for rising to the challenge to seize and close middle-market deals," said Roger Aguinaldo, CEO of The M&A Advisor. "All financing award recipients are true industry leaders and it is our honor to recognize them."

About The Middle Market Financing Awards

Each year, The M&A Advisor, a conference producer and newsletter publisher serving the middle market finance industry, recognizes top deal-making professionals serving the $10 million - $1 billion (sales) market in fields such as investment banking, private equity, legal services, and accounting. The Middle Market Financing Awards are made on the basis of creativity and resourcefulness, persistence, business savvy, and value-added. The finalists are judged by an independent body of experts who represent a cross-section of middle market financing industry.

About Marlin & Associates

Marlin & Associates is a boutique investment banking and strategic advisory firm specializing in acquisitions and divestitures of U.S. and international middle-market firms that provide technology, digital information and healthcare-related products, technology and services. The firm is headquartered in New York, NY and has additional offices in Washington, DC and Toronto, Canada. Marlin & Associates' professionals have advised on more than 200 successfully completed transactions.