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TA Associates and Rho Ventures Complete Investment in IntraLinks
Boston and New York
June 18, 2007
TA Associates, a leading growth private equity
and buyout firm, and Rho Ventures, a leading venture and growth
equity firm, today announced that they have completed a majority
recapitalization of IntraLinks, Inc., a leading provider of online
workspaces for secure document exchange. Rho has been a major shareholder
in IntraLinks since 2001, and will continue to hold a significant
stake in the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Through
its On-Demand Workspaces™, IntraLinks helps businesses
share sensitive information and documents safely and securely online.
Customers use the hosted workspaces to exchange and manage time-sensitive,
confidential information, particularly for business processes between
multiple organizations. IntraLinks serves the mergers and acquisitions,
syndicated loans, alternative investments and life sciences communities,
and its products are used by the corporate legal, finance and operations
teams of global companies. IntraLinks offers subscription and transaction-based
offerings, and has facilitated projects with over 600,000 users,
representing over 50,000 organizations. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks
is headquartered in New York with offices around the world.
“IntraLinks is an outstanding company with a strong, 10-year
track record,” said Brian J. Conway, a Managing Director at
TA Associates who will join the company’s Board of Directors. “IntraLinks
has a broad customer base and significant growth momentum, and has
emerged as the leading software-as-a-service provider in online
workspaces. We look forward to working closely with IntraLinks’ management
team and Rho Ventures to further build value in the company.”
“We are pleased to roll a major portion of our equity in
IntraLinks alongside an established and experienced partner like
TA,” said Habib Kairouz, a Managing Partner at Rho Ventures
who will remain on IntraLinks’ Board of Directors. “IntraLinks
has a scalable and well-defined business model and a unique customer
value proposition, and we are pleased to continue our relationship
with the company.”
“We welcome this partnership with TA Associates and Rho Ventures,
firms that share our commitment to quality and to building long-term
client relationships,” said Patrick Wack, President and Chief
Executive Officer of IntraLinks, Inc. “This endorsement will
help us further strengthen our leadership position and seize new
market opportunities in the U.S. and internationally as we continue
on a path of robust growth.”
The market for online solutions
continues to expand due to a growing need to manage and share
content in an online environment, increasing
adoption of outsourcing and on-demand applications, and heightened
focus on content security, control and compliance.
“Today’s business climate is one in which companies
are addressing concerns about compliance, security and managing
corporate information,” said Harry D. Taylor, a Senior Vice
President at TA Associates who will also join IntraLinks’ Board
of Directors. “These market trends have generated broad appeal
for IntraLinks’ on-demand workspaces, particularly within
the financial services market. As these trends gather momentum across
companies worldwide, we anticipate that IntraLinks will further
increase its market penetration within financial services and expand
into new vertical markets.”
“These market trends have generated broad appeal for IntraLinks’ on-demand
workspaces, particularly within the financial services market. As
these trends gather momentum across companies worldwide, we anticipate
that IntraLinks will further increase its market penetration within
financial services and expand into new vertical markets.”
TA
Associates has more than 39 years of investing experience, focusing
on recapitalizations and buyouts of profitable growth companies.
TA has been an early private equity investor in leading online
businesses such as Ameritrade (NASDAQ: AMTD); in leading software
companies
such as BMC Software (NYSE: BMC), Cadence Design Systems (NYSE:
CDN) and Hyperion Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ: HYSL); and in
rapidly growing financial technology companies like IntercontinentalExchange
(NYSE: ICE).
Goodwin Procter served as legal counsel to TA
Associates. Heller Ehrman provided legal services to IntraLinks.
Advisory services
for TA were provided by Jefferies Broadview, and for IntraLinks
by Credit Suisse. Proskauer Rose LLP provided legal counsel to
Rho Ventures.
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 1997, more than 600,000 participants
representing over 50,000 organizations worldwide have used IntraLinks
On-Demand Workspaces™ to
communicate and collaborate on thousands of projects and transactions.
IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and
pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Deutsche Bank,
FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds
of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York
with offices around the world.
About TA Associates
Founded in 1968, TA Associates is one of the largest and most
experienced private equity firms. With offices in Boston, London
and Menlo
Park, the firm manages $10 billion in capital and has invested
in more than 370 companies. TA Associates provides management
buyout, leveraged recapitalization and growth equity capital
primarily for technology, financial services, business services,
healthcare
and consumer businesses. More information about TA Associates
can be found at www.ta.com.
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