As we prepare to announce our launch, and introduce our strategic partners, we are within weeks of enabling searches of listed companies for sale and turning on buyer's profiles. For those at the M&A Forum, this is a very exciting time. To see a Fortune 500 company business development guy go online and enter their profile/mandate or "just-what-exactly-they-are-looking-for" is pretty cool. It is also cool to get a listing of 8 companies, revenues ranging from $5m to $30m that are for sale from an international boutique bank in some of the hottest service and outsourcing segments in our universe. This is also cool.
We expect to have nearly 300 companies listed for sale by the end of the 4th quarter, so stay tuned.
p.s. The KKR/First Data Corp deal did get finished. A big bullet avoided.
marty