Transactions > by Year > 2007 | JEGI - Independent Investment Bank

Seevast Corp, which operates leading ad networks Pulse 360 and Kanoodle, has sold Domain Asset Management™ company Moniker to online marketing solutions company Oversee.net. The divestiture will allow Seevast management to focus on continued growth and innovation in its core ad network businesses – Pulse 360 and Kanoodle.

Seevast acquired Moniker in 2005 and since then, Moniker, led by CEO Monte Cahn, has grown significantly and pioneered the concept of Domain Asset Management, as well as their successful live and silent domain auction formats.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Seevast in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

iParenting Media, operator of one of the Internet’s most popular communities for parents and parents-to-be at iParenting.com, has been sold to The Walt Disney Internet Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Through Disney.com, the Walt Disney Internet Group offers a portfolio of parenting sites and a strong line-up of family-targeted web properties, including the award-winning Disney Family.com. Through this transaction, The Walt Disney Internet Group gains iParenting’s vast resources, quality content and vibrant community that serve families, young parents and parents-to-be in English and Spanish.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented iParenting in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Cambridge Information Group, a privately owned group of information services and publishing companies, in conjunction with Externalis and ABRY Partners, have completed a tender offer for the shares of Navtech, Inc., (NAVH.OB), a leading information provider to the aviation industry.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group advised Cambridge Information Group in this transaction.

KnowledgeStorm, Inc., a leading online search resource for IT professionals, has been sold to TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT), a publisher of intergrated media that enables IT marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and excutives, for approximately $58 million.

KnowledgeStorm generates approximately 3.5 million visits per month from IT professionals searching for information and has approximately 700 active advertisers.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented KnowledgeStorm in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Circles, a leading loyalty services company, has been sold to Sodexho Alliance, an $18.8 billion global provider of Food and Facilities Management Services. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Circles creates and delivers concierge, personal assistant, experience and event programs for its clients, including Fortune 1000 companies and some of the most recognized brands in the world.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Circles in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

In November 2000, dmg world media, a division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc, acquired 25% of George Little Management (“GLM”), the leading privately owned event company in the United States. Subsequently, dmg world media increased its interest in GLM to 49%.

In October 2007, dmg world media acquired the remaining 51% to complete its 100% ownership of GLM.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group advised dmg world media in these transactions.

Venture Direct, a leading marketing services firm that provides online lead generation and customer acquisition services to advertisers, along with list brokerage and management services for publishers and list buyers, has been sold to PlattForm Holdings, a leading Internet marketing and enrollment solutions provider to the post-secondary education industry, and a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented VentureDirect in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

CFM Religion Publishing Group, a portfolio company of The Wicks Group and a recognized leader in providing Christian resources and publications for families, churches, schools and religious organizations, has acquired Resources for Christian Living (RCL), a provider of media products and services for the Catholic community.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented CFM Religion Publishing in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor.

Healia, an innovative consumer health search engine specializing in finding high quality and personalized health information online, has been acquired by Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP), one of America's leading media and marketing companies.

Approximately four out of five consumers first use a search engine to find health information. Healia, a winner of numerous industry awards, provides innovative search technology that guides health professionals and consumers to the highest quality and most personally relevant search results.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Healia in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Gorilla Nation Media, the world's largest online ad rep firm, today announced a partnership with Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in growth companies operating in the media, Internet and business and consumer services industries.

Great Hill Partners has invested over $50 million in Gorilla Nation Media for a significant minority stake in the business. This represents Gorilla Nation's first round of financing since its start in 2001 by founders Aaron Broder and Brian Fitzgerald.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Gorilla Nation Media in this transactions and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Sunshine Holdings Corporation, an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company, merged its Sunshine Custom Publishing division with True North Custom Publishing, uniting two fast-growth organizations, expanding the combined company's presence as America's largest custom health care publishing company.

The new company will operate as a division of Sunshine Holdings and be named True North Custom Publishing, under the leadership of True North's current President and CEO David McDonald.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented True North in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

The Festival Network, a global, live entertainment production and marketing company, has secured $10 million in Series C financing from Guggenheim Partners, a diversified financial services firm that was formed to provide the Guggenheim family and other clients with a sophisticated array of wealth and investment management services.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented The Festival Network in this transaction.

TechnologyGuide.com, a provider of leading proprietary Internet content sites for mobile technology products, has been sold to TechTarget, which recently went public (NASDAQ: TTGT) and publishes integrated media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented TechnologyGuide.com in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Haymarket Media, Inc. has acquired DMNews from Courtenay Communications Corp. Both companies are privately held and based in New York.

Haymarket Media is one of the fastest-growing media companies in the US and publishes a dozen magazines covering the marketing, public relations, medical, elderly care, and information securities businesses, each with a market-leading online platform. Its parent, Haymarket Media Group, is based in London.

DMNews magazine was launched by Adrian Courtenay in 1979 and now includes other print offerings, the DMNews.com Web site and six e-mail newsletters. The sale also included rights to iMarketingNews, a magazine that was published from 1999 to 2002.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Courtenay in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

TNS Media Intelligence (TNS MI), the leading provider of strategic advertising information, has acquired Cymfony, the top market influence analytics company. The acquisition integrates Cymfony's expertise in tracking and analyzing the intersection of traditional and social media, such as blogs and social networks, with TNS MI's current extensive suite of adveritising intelligence products.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Cymfony in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Naylor, the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions for trade and professional associations in North America and a portfolio company of Clarity Partners and ZelnickMedia, has acquired Convention Management Group, a Fairfax, VA-based full-service event management company.

Like Naylor, CMG focuses exclusively on serving trade and professional associations, and the acquisition will add turn-key event management capabilities to Naylor's full slate of print and online media services and solutions.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented CMG in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Festival Productions, George Wein's internationally celebrated music festival company, has joined with Shoreline Media to form The Festival Network, creating one of the world's premier entertainment and production companies.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented The Festival Network in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.

Trade Service Corporation, a leading database provider of robust product and pricing solutions to 18,000 subscribers, has received a significant equity investment from GF Capital Private Equity Fund, LP. GF Capital of New York is focused on growth capital, buyout and recapitalization investments in the media and information industries.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Trade Service in this transaction. For more information, click here.

Rainbow Studies International, producer of the world's only color-coded Bible, has been sold to Standard Publishing, a portfolio company of the Wicks Group and producer of nondenominational, true-to-the-Bible resources.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Rainbow Studies International in this transaction. For more information, click here.

Reed Business Information (RBI), a leading B2B media company in the US and part of Reed Elsevier, a world-leading publisher and information provider, has acquired BuyerZone.com, an online lead generation company.

BuyerZone is a leading online B2B marketplace that links prospective buyers to qualified suppliers of more than 125 business product and service categories. Since 2004, BuyerZone has facilitated more than $5 billion worth of transactions.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Reed Business Information in this transaction. For more information, click here.

Avista Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, has acquired the assets of Phillips Investment Resources, LLC (“PIR”), a provider of subscription-based investment advice, from Phillips International, Inc.

Founded in 1974, Rockville, MD-based PIR provides independent investment advice on a paid subscription basis. The Company delivers its content primarily through electronic media channels, as well as through print newsletters. PIR offers 23 subscription-based advisory services from 16 expert advisors, covering a broad range of topics and investment styles to approximately 220,000 subscribers.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group represented Phillips International in this transaction and acted as its exclusive financial advisor. For more information, click here.