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Updata's Ira Cohen Talks To The Deal
Updata Advisors' Managing Partner Ira Cohen recently spoke with Mary Kathleen Flynn of The Deal about Compuware's recent acquisition of Gomez and how the IPO market affects M&A.
From The Deal:
"Gomez could have gone public," said Ira Cohen, managing partner,
Updata Advisors Inc., which represented Compuware Corp. (NASDAQ:CPWR)
in its October acquisition of Internet analytics developer Gomez Inc. for
$295 million cash. Compuware "knew that buying Gomez would be a
game-changer, and they were willing to pay a price that pretty much
equated with an IPO," said Cohen, who predicts the deal will be a
"harbinger of things to come" in the new year as the IPO market
continues to heat up. The Deal spoke with Cohen on location at the NYSE
Euronext as part of our ongoing video series about IPOs. For more on
the Gomez deal, click here
to watch The Deal's previous video with Richard Brekka, president of New York
private equity firm Dolphin Equity Partners LP, which first invested in
Gomez back in 2000. Watch the video below or download it on iTunes. - Mary Kathleen Flynn, The Deal
Click here to view Ira Cohen's interview with The Deal.
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