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In the last year, his boutique advisory firm, Qatalyst Partners, has been involved in nearly every major technology merger.
By selling a factory or a few airport gates, altering distribution arrangements, or agreeing to license a technology, merger partners can often make it feasible for others to enter the market and thus forestall worries about potential anti-competitive behaviour.
Optical inclusionIn the world's biggest-ever technology merger, JDS Uniphase, a North American optical-communications equipment maker, said it would acquire SDL, an American rival, for shares valued at $41 billion.
On Monday, when JDS Uniphase and SDL announced their plans for a merger -- at $41 billion the largest technology merger so far -- my reaction was the same as that of most other people: "Who?
Last year saw $25 billion in technology merger announcements, according to Houlihan Lokey, a Los Angeles-based investment bank.
In the last three years, the company has grown from 80 people to 180, which rivals the size of any of Wall Street's technology merger and acquisition squads.
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The bank also hired Erik-Jaap Molenaar as a managing director in technology mergers and acquisitions.
Technology mergers tend to require a little more imagination to justify their cost.
Such integration challenges have in the past hampered other big technology mergers.
On the other hand, even technology mergers involve people and cultures as well as bytes and chips.
Broadview International, the boutique investment bank that specializes in technology mergers, has brokered another deal -- this time for itself.
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