Berkery Noyes Releases First Half 2010 Online Industry Merger & Acquisition Trends - Volume Cranks Up

NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, a leading middle market investment bank, has released its 2010 Half Year Online M&A Trends Report. This report analyzes merger and acquisition activity in the Online Industry in the first half of 2010 and compares it with activity in the four previous sixth month periods from 2008-2009.

While revenue multiples have decreased from 2.1 in 2nd Half 2009 to 1.8 to 1st Half 2010, mergers & acquisitions in the sector nonetheless saw strong growth, as evidenced by a 31% increase in transaction volume, exceeding the total volume of each of the four preceding sixth month periods.

The segment with the largest increase in transaction volume was E-Marketing & Search, with a 47% increase from 83 transactions in 2nd Half 2009 to 122 transactions in 1st Half 2010.  The segment with the largest decrease in transaction value was E-Content which fell 59%, from $2.06 billion in 2nd Half 2009 to $850 million in 1st Half 2010.

Of the top ten deals, five occurred within the E-Commerce segment, which represents traditional e-commerce businesses as well as e-commerce enabling technologies.  

Google, Inc. was the most active buyer within the online Industry, with ten transactions.  Two of the companies acquired by Google, Inc. were founded by former Google employees (Aardvark, reMail) while another acquisition, Picnik, Inc., employed a CEO who had already sold his company, Phatbits, to Google in 2005.

To view the full report, Click Here. (http://berkerynoyes.com/visit/1stHalfOnlineMobileEmailVersion.aspx).

Berkery Noyes provides skilled transaction management to publicly traded and privately held businesses and private equity groups in both sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions. We have managed transactions ranging from several million to more than four billion dollars in value, with an emphasis on mid market transactions of $10 million to $500 million in enterprise value.

Our clients include private companies seeking a buyer, most of the major international information companies, and private equity firms who use the firm's expertise in locating, analyzing and negotiating with acquisition candidates and in managing divestitures. The firm operates with a staff of forty professionals serving the information industry

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For more information, visit www.berkerynoyes.com.

SOURCE Berkery Noyes

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