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an excellent job in keeping this process moving
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"You were a pleasure to work with. . . Your attention
to detail and ability to get all of us pulling in
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The sale of International
Test Technologies, a venture-backed company
based in Ireland to ASSET InterTech, a former
business unit of Texas Instruments. ITT's functional
emulation product is used by customers, including
EMC, Intel, Cisco, Ericsson, GE, and Motorola,
to test and debug processor-based circuit boards.
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press release >
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Equation Partners
provided divestiture consulting services to Teradyne,
Inc. (NYSE: TER) related to the sale
of its Broadband Test Division to Tollgrade Communications,
Inc. (NASDAQ: TLGD).
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The sale by
Spanlink Communications, Inc. of rights to
certain patents and other technology, developed
in part at SRI International, related to natural
language processing technology to Powerset, a venture-backed
company building a consumer search engine based
on natural language processing technologies. Powerset
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The acquisition
by Teradyne,
Inc., (NYSE: TER) from MOSAID Technologies
Incorporated (TSX: MSD) of the technology associated
with its System Division's high performance memory
tester platform and to hire the product development
team for CAD$20 million.
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press release > |
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The acquisition
by Integrated
Computer Solutions, a developer and
seller of graphical user interface software products,
of the business of Project.net
which sells a browser-based enterprise project management
application.
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The sale of
Otis Clapp & Son, Inc., and Dover
Pharmaceutical, Inc. to a major company
in the industrial first aid market. Otis Clapp,
founded in 1840, is one of the oldest pharmaceutical
manufacturers in the United States.
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The acquisition
by Integrated
Computer Solutions, a developer and
seller of graphical user interface software products,
of the software development and testing product
line of Centerline Development Systems.
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The sale of
the business of Parker Guitars, Inc.,
to U.S. Music Corporation. Parker Guitars manufactures
and sells a line of hard-body electric guitars,
including the Parker Fly and NiteFly. U.S. Music
is a manufacturer and distributor of guitars, amplifiers,
PA sound equipment, and accessories. Its brands
include Washburn Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Eden
Bass Amplifiers, Oscar Schmidt Guitars, Soundtech
Pro Audio and Vinci Strings.
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The sale of
the business of Newfront Software,
Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to SCT (Nasdaq:SCTC).
Newfront Software is the leading provider of software
used by educational institutions to report data
on foreign students and scholars to the Student
and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS),
a high-profile tracking system introduced by the
Department of Homeland Security. SCT is the leading
global provider of technology solutions for colleges
and universities, with more than 1,300 client institutions
worldwide and over $200 million in annual revenue.
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The divestiture
by Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) of
the assets of its subsidiary, Perception Laminates,
Inc., including its manufacturing facility in California
which fabricates laminates for printed circuit boards.
Taconic, a leader in the development of advanced
engineered composite materials, acquired the assets
for the manufacture of its proprietary laminates
for high layer count high-speed digital and microwave
applications.
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The divestiture by Teradyne,
Inc. (NYSE:TER) of its Manufacturing
Software Group to Visiprise, Inc.. Visiprise develops
and sells software solutions for discrete manufacturers,
including manufacturing execution systems (MES)
software, quality management software and new
product introduction software. Visiprise has agreed
to be acquired by SAP, AG, the world's largest
business software company and a leading provider
of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
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press release >
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Boston Business Journal article >
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The sale of
Security Integration, Inc.'s
LDAP directory products which provide data access
authorization services for corporate web portals
in IBM mainframe environments to Rocket Software,
Inc..
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about product >
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The acquisition
by Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER) of
the assets of Precision Concepts, Inc., a provider
of precision parts used in high performance interconnect
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Other
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Our principals
have been involved with and handled numerous transactions
in various positions during their careers, including
mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate
partnering, and venture capital investments. Representative
of other transactions on which our principals have
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The divestiture
by Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) of
its Aerospace/Defense connector and backplane assembly
business to Amphenol Corporation (NYSE:APH).
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The sale of
UK-based AMG Systems Limited, a
provider of digital video networking equipment to
iMPath Networks Inc. based in Ottawa, Canada.
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press release > |
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The sale of
Black Bean Studios, Inc., a multidisciplinary
design firm located in Boston, to Primix Solutions
Inc. (NASDAQ: PMIX).
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The sale of
Avalan Technology, Inc., a US-based
developer and vendor of PC remote control software,
to Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:
CA).
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The strategic
partnership between Document Directions,
Inc. and Merrill Corporation, a diversified
communications and document services company, to
market Document Directions' collaborative authoring
product as Merrill TextManager to the financial
services industry. Merrill Corporation subsequently
acquired Document Directions.
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The sale of
Manager Software Products, an international
vendor of meta-data and repository based information
management products based in the Netherlands, to
Allen Systems Group, Inc. a US-based vendor of enterprise
productivity software.
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The sale of
Softbridge, Inc., a developer and
vendor of client/server testing tools to Teradyne,
Inc. (NYSE:TER).
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The sale of
Baranof Software, a developer and
vendor of messaging management software to Tally
Systems Corporation, a vendor of asset management
software.
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The venture
capital investment in Complex Architectures,
a developer and vendor of wireless communications
middleware which was sold to Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:
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