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

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 27, 2010) -  Marlin & Associates announced today that The M&A Advisor has named the firm a finalist for five of its annual "Middle-Market Financing Awards," including 'Boutique Investment Banking Firm of the Year' and 'Equity Financing Agent of the Year.'

In addition, Marlin & Associates was named a finalist for three deal-of-the-year awards:

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

"It is an honor to recognize the achievements of Marlin & Associates," said Roger Aguinaldo, CEO of The M&A Advisor. "During a challenging economic period they have stepped up to the plate to make important middle-market deals possible."

"It is humbling to be nominated again as the 'Boutique Investment Bank of the Year' and again to be a finalist for 'Equity Financing Agent of the Year,'" said Ken Marlin, Founder and Managing Partner of Marlin & Associates. "We are grateful to be recognized for our hard work during tough times."

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 awards are made on the basis of creativity and resourcefulness, persistence, business savvy, and value-added. The finalists are judged by an independent panel, and award recipients will be announced at the 5^th Annual Middle-Market Financing Awards Gala on the evening of Monday, June 21^st at The Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.

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 information 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.

Some recent transactions on which Marlin &Associates has advised include:

- Strategic Analytics of Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ: VRSK);

- Logical Information Machines, Inc. (LIM) of Chicago, Illinois, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN);

- NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) of New York, New York, which Marlin & Associates advised on the sale of its Hugin subsidiary to Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI);

- Vhayu Technologies of Los Gatos, California, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI);

- Standard & Poor's of New York, New York a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), which Marlin & Associates advised on the sale of its Vista Research subsidiary to Guidepoint Global;

- Tenfore of London, England, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN);

- LexisNexis of Dayton, Ohio, which Marlin & Associates advised on the sale of its subsidiary Mealey's Conference to Business Valuation Resources (BVR);

- InfoDyne Corp. of Park Ridge, Illinois, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM);

- Orimos of Zurich, Switzerland, which Marlin & Associates advised on its acquisition of ION Trading;

- LowerFees, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Bankrate, Inc. (NASDAQ: RATE);

- Netik LLC of London, England and New York, New York, which Marlin & Associates advised on its simultaneous acquisition of Capco Reference Data Services and the replacement of its primary investor, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK), with Symphony Technology Group;

- Applied Financial Technology (AFT) of San Francisco, California, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Lender Processing Services (NYSE: LPS);

- Xcitek LLC's Market Data Division of New York, NY, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Interactive Data Corp. (NYSE: IDC);

- StarMine Corp. of San Francisco, California, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters - NYSE: TRI);

- Brainpower N.V. of Lugano, Switzerland, which Marlin & Associates advised on its sale to Bloomberg L.P.

Contact Information:

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