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IntraLinks Enters Into Strategic Alliance With Global M&A GmbH
NEW YORK, NY
BUSINESS WIRE
July 28, 2005
IntraLinks, Inc., a leading provider of virtual data rooms to the
financial services industry, today announced that it has entered into
a strategic alliance with Global M&A GmbH (Global M&A), one
of the world's leading partnerships of M&A boutique firms. Under
the terms of the agreement, IntraLinks will serve as the preferred
virtual dealroom provider to members of Global M&A, which is comprised
of 27 middle-market M&A advisory firms worldwide. Over the last
five years, the organization's members have completed more than 600
transactions with an aggregate deal value of more than EUR 10 billion.
"Around the world, our partners are top-tier, middle-market advisory
firms who know the markets at home and options abroad," said
Michael Gibbons, chairman of both Global M&A and Brown Gibbons
Lang & Co. (US partner). "By forming an alliance with IntraLinks,
we are bringing to our partners a fellow best-of-breed provider whose
services will give them the ability to further extend their geographic
transaction reach, enabling deeper due diligence and accelerating
the time it takes to close a deal."
Traditionally, due diligence was conducted in physical deal rooms,
with participants entering one at a time to review confidential information
over a period of weeks or months. Virtual deal rooms enable an unlimited
number of buyer groups to review these documents simultaneously without
revealing their identity to competing buyers. "Global M&A
is made up of some of the most distinguished middle market M&A
firms in the world and we are very pleased that the group has chosen
IntraLinks as its preferred provider of virtual data rooms,"
said Christopher Thomas, Executive Vice President of Business Development
at IntraLinks. "The market has recognized that doing deals online
requires both leading technology and unrivaled customer service. We
look forward to continue delivering on both fronts."
About Global M&A
Global M&A is widely recognized as one of the world's leading
working partnerships of mid-market advisory firms focusing on cross-border,
mid-market transactions with values between EUR 25 and EUR 500 million.
The Global M&A partnership consists of 27 members in financial
centers spanning the globe. Members have completed over 600 transactions
with an aggregate deal value exceeding EUR 10 billion since 2000.
For more information, please visit www.globalma.com
About IntraLinks
IntraLinks® On-Demand Workspaces™ connect business communities
and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among
participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments,
companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential
business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid
workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime using
a web browser.
Since April 1997, more than 200,000 participants representing over
10,000 organizations worldwide have used IntraLinks on-demand workspaces
to communicate and collaborate on more than 20,000 projects and transactions.
IntraLinks has been rapidly adopted by the financial services and
pharmaceutical markets. Over 250 global organizations are IntraLinks
clients, including AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America,
Bear Stearns, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, FDIC, TD Securities,
Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB. Founded in June 1996, IntraLinks
is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston and London.
Contacts
Walek & Associates
David Rosen, 212-889-4113
david@walek.com
(c) Business Wire 2005
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