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M&A to Sponsor Information Industry Summit
Founder Ken Marlin to Introduce Keynote Speaker
| Source: Marlin & Associates
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 22, 2007 -- Marlin & Associates New York LLC ("M&A"), the
New York- and Washington, DC-based boutique investment banking advisory and
strategic consulting company serving the Digital Information Economy,
announced today its sponsorship of the SIIA's Information Industry Summit.
This sixth annual conference is produced by The Software & Information
Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the
software and digital content industry. The conference will be held January
30-31 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, NY.
"The SIIA's annual Information Industry Summit has become one of the very
few places for top executives of digital information companies to
interact. That's why we're pleased to be associated with it," said M&A
founder Ken Marlin. The Information Industry Summit features global
thought-leaders offering their unique perspectives on the industry through
a series of panels, debates, keynotes, and interviews. This year, keynote
speakers include Ann S. Moore, Chairman & CEO, Time Inc; Richard Zannino,
CEO, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE : DJ ); Tad Smith, CEO, Reed Business
Information; and Paul J. Cosgrave, Commissioner of the Department of
Information Technology and Telecommunications, City of New York.
For more information and to see the full SIIA Information Industry
Summit program, go to http://www.siia.net/iis/2007.
SIIA
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal
trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA
provides global services in government relations, business development,
corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800
leading software and information companies. For further information, visit
http://www.siia.net.
Marlin & Associates
Founded in 2002, Marlin & Associates is a boutique investment banking and
strategic consulting firm focused on providing highly strategic and
specialized, transaction-related services to U.S. and international
middle-market firms engaged in technology, information, on-line media and
business services. The firm has offices in New York City and Washington,
DC.
Marlin & Associates' professionals have advised on over 200 successfully
completed transactions in the technology and information services sector.
Recently, the firm was recognized by The M&A Advisor for leading the
"Financial Technology Deal of the Year." Marlin & Associates received the
award for its role as the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to
Brainpower N.V., in its sale to Bloomberg L.P. The M&A Advisor award
winners were chosen based on the importance of the transaction, unique deal
characteristics, transaction difficulty, and overall impact on the
industry. Marlin & Associates was nominated for awards in three different
categories.
In addition to Brainpower N.V., Marlin & Associates was the exclusive
advisor to numerous technology-related firms that recently made strategic
moves, including:
-- Hugin ASA of Oslo, Norway, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale
to Euronext N.V., the pan-European exchange (AMS : NXTA ); (PARIS : ENX ).
-- Triple Point Technology of Westport Connecticut, which Marlin &
Associates advised on the sale of a majority interest to ABRY Partners, one
of the most experienced and successful private equity firms in North
America.
-- Cameron Systems (Vic) of Sydney, Australia, which Marlin & Associates
advised on its sale to Orc Software of Stockholm, Sweden (STKM : ORC ).
-- Derivative Solutions, of Chicago, which Marlin & Associates advised on
its sale to FactSet Research Systems (NYSE : FDS ).
-- Beauchamp Financial Technology Ltd. of London, England, which Marlin and
Associates advised on its sale to Linedata Services of Paris, France
(PARIS : LIN ).
-- Global Securities Information, of Washington D.C., which Marlin &
Associates advised on its sale to the Thomson Corporation (NYSE : TOC ).
-- Interactive Technologies, Inc. of Summit, NJ, which Marlin & Associates
advised on its sale to Fiserv (NASDAQ : FISV ).
-- europrospectus.com, of East Sussex, UK, which Marlin & Associates
advised on its sale to FactSet Research Systems (NYSE : FDS ).
Marlin & Associates was also the exclusive advisor on the following
transactions and strategy consulting engagements:
-- Law publisher Potomac Publishing, which Marlin & Associates advised on
its sale to Datastream Content Services.
-- Edwards Information, disaster recovery directory, sold to DataBase Ready
LLC, which Marlin & Associates advised.
-- Lexis-Nexis' Reed Technical Information Services, law publisher World
Bureau, business media publisher Source Media, and information services
publisher Owen Media Partners, each of which Marlin & Associates advised on
their respective organic, strategic and technology growth options.
-- Major systems integrator in its successful offer to assist in the US
government in building a new digital system for developing, publishing, and
archiving government information. This information is core to many
commercial information products and services in the digital economy.
For more information go to www.MarlinAndAssociates.com