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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Merrill Corporation and The Mergermarket Group Release Transatlantic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Report
St. Paul, Minn. — Merrill Corporation, a leading global provider of technology-enabled services for the legal, financial, real estate and other corporate markets, and The Mergermarket Group, an independent merger and acquisition (M&A) intelligence and research service, today announced the release of the US/European Transatlantic Cross-Border M&A Spotlight. The report provides valuable insights on a range of issues related to cross-border M&A transactions and summarizes the results of a recent survey of more than 100 senior corporate executives and investment bankers who are active in M&A deals.
The report addresses expectations for sector activity, protectionism and the impact of financial buyers within the competitive landscape. Many respondents believe that technology, pharmaceutical/medical and financial services are expected to offer the greatest opportunity in 2008 and the proposed easing of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations will help facilitate additional transatlantic M&A transactions.
“A vast majority of the respondents expect transatlantic M&A activity to remain healthy in 2008 and over 77 percent of those surveyed believe M&A levels will increase or remain the same,” said Paul Hartzell, senior vice president of global sales for Merrill DataSite. “These results are consistent with the rapid growth of Merrill’s Virtual Data Room solutions for transatlantic deals.”
In addition to releasing the report, Merrill Corporation and The Mergermarket Group will host the Transatlantic M&A Symposium in London on October 11, 2007, to further discuss the implications of the research findings and other related M&A issues. Registration details are available online at: http://www.datasitedeal.com/event/landing.asp?src=2667.
About Merrill Corporation
Founded in 1968 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Merrill Corporation (www.merrillcorp.com) is a leading provider of outsourcing solutions for complex business communication and information management. Merrill’s services include document and data management, litigation support, branded communication programs, fulfillment, imaging and printing. Merrill targets markets including the legal, financial services, insurance and real estate industries. With more than 6,300 people in over 70 domestic and 15 international locations, Merrill empowers the communications of the world’s leading companies.
About Merrill DataSite
Merrill DataSite is a complete and secure virtual data room solution designed to optimize the due diligence process and accelerate transactions. Accessible from any Internet browser, DataSite allows multiple parties and prospective buyers to participate concurrently from anywhere, dramatically reducing transaction time and complexity. DataSite provides useful tools including full search, viewer audit capability, Q&A and detailed user tracking. This allows clients to maintain tighter control and have more insight into reviewer behavior. More information can be found at: www.merrillcorp.com/datasite.
About The Mergermarket Group
The Mergermarket Group has more than 400 employees worldwide and regional head offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. As an unparalleled mergers and acquisitions (M&A) intelligence tool, mergermarket is unique in the provision of origination intelligence to the investment banking, legal, private equity, acquisition finance, public relations (PR) and corporate markets. With an unrivalled network of analysts covering M&A in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, mergermarket generates proprietary intelligence and delivers it together with daily aggregated content, on its mergermarket.com platform and by real-time e-mail alerts to subscribers. This wealth of intelligence, together with a series of deal databases, individual and house league tables, profiles and editorial have proven time and time again that this product can and does generate real revenues for clients. This is apparent when you see that mergermarket is used by over 1000 of the world’s foremost advisory firms to assist in their origination process. Visit us at: www.mergermarket.com.
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