Recent Update: Boston Corporate Finance Merges with TM Capital
New York, NY – January 7, 2008 –TM Capital Corp. (TM), one of the leading privately held investment and merchant banking firms in North America, and Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. (BCF), a technology-focused investment bank based in Westwood, MA, announced today that the firms have merged effective January 1, 2008. The combination creates a preeminent independent investment banking firm providing its global roster of clients with a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, financing and advisory services. The firm will operate under the TM Capital name from offices in New York, Boston and Atlanta, and include all of the current partners of TM and BCF. To read more about the merger click here...

Press Releases

September 17, 2007
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced that it has successfully advised OKERE, Inc., the SaaS-based CRM services provider, in its sale to Fujitsu Consulting, the North American consulting and services arm of Fujitsu Limited.
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June 5, 2007
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced that it has successfully advised Hitachi Consulting, the global business and IT consulting arm of Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), in its acquisition of Iteration2, a U.S.-based provider of Microsoft Dynamics IT solutions.
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May 28, 2007
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., in collaboration with its M&A International Inc. partner, IBI Corporate Finance, announced that they have successfully advised Microsol Holdings Ltd., the energy and utilities solutions provider, in its sale to Crompton Greaves Ltd.
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April 25, 2007
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. in collaboration with its M&A International Inc. partner, Closa Corporate Finance Advisors, announced that they have successfully advised Spain-based Telvent GIT S.A., the Global RealTime IT Company, in its acquisition of Caseta Technologies, a U.S.-based provider of end-to-end electronic toll collection systems.
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April 12, 2007
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology-focused investment bank, announced today that it successfully advised Hitachi Consulting, the global business and IT consulting arm of Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), in its acquisition of the UK business and IT consulting firm, Impact Plus. As the exclusive financial advisor to Hitachi Consulting, BCF leveraged its cross-border transaction experience and IT services industry expertise to strengthen Hitachi Consulting's presence in Europe.
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September 21, 2006
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced today that it has successfully advised the US-based global IT services company, AppLabs Technologies (AppLabs), in its acquisition of IS Integration, the leading UK-based IT and business solutions testing consultancy. As the exclusive financial advisor to AppLabs, the BCF deal team leveraged its cross-border transaction experience and IT services industry expertise to strengthen Applabs' global presence with the acquisition of a leading European software testing company.
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September 8, 2006
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a member of M&A International Inc., announced today that it rendered a fairness opinion to the Board of Directors of BioLok International Inc. with respect to the sale of BioLok to HealthpointCapital.
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July 5, 2006
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. in collaboration with their M&A International Inc. partner, Closa Corporate Finance Advisors, announced today that Telvent's acquisition of PB Farradyne, a Maryland-based Traffic Information Technology consulting and integration business, has successfully been completed. As advisors to Telvent, BCF and Closa were able to support Telvent's expansion into the United States while also strengthening the company's global IT solutions for the Traffic and Transportation markets.
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June 19, 2006
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology-focused investment banking firm, announced today that is has successfully advised Newton, MA-based, Business Process Management (BPM) software provider, ProActivity Ltd. (ProActivity), in its sale to EMC Corporation, the Hopkinton, MA-based, world leader in information management and storage.
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May 18, 2006
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. in collaboration with their M&A International, Inc. partner, Closa Corporate Finance Advisors, announced today that their client, Telvent GIT S.A., has signed a definitive stock and asset purchase agreement with PB Farradyne, a Maryland-based Traffic Information Technology consulting and integration business, whereby Telvent will acquire PB Farradyne business and related assets.
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October 13, 2005
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology focused investment banking firm, announced today that Murray Beach, Managing Director at BCF, has been elected President of M&A International, Inc., the world’s leading organization of independently owned merger and acquisition specialists.
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August 25, 2005
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced today that it has successfully advised The Cedar Group, based in Baltimore, MD, in its merger and subsequent financing with Crestone International, based in Alpharetta, GA.
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March 31, 2005
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. in collaboration with Switzerland-based Binder Corporate Finance, announced that it has successfully advised Datamars in the sale of a majority ownership stake of the company to a group of private equity investors led by Iris Capital and Invision.
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March 7, 2005
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced today that it has successfully advised Child Life,Inc., based in Holliston, Massachusetts, in its sale to Escalade Sports, a wholly owned subsidiary of Escalade, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESCA) based in Wabash, Indiana. With a 60 year history, Child Life is America's original manufacturer of premium wooden play systems for residential use.
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February 14, 2005
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced today that it has successfully advised Optura, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, in its sale to Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX), based in Waterloo, Ontario.
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December 22, 2004
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. announced today that it has successfully advised AEP Systems (AEP), in its merger and subsequent funding with Netilla Networks Inc. (Netilla).
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July 23, 2004
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology-focused investment banking firm, announced today that it has successfully advised Inspex Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of semiconductor wafer inspection hardware and software, in its sale of certain core assets to August Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: AUGT).
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June 5, 2004
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology-focused investment banking firm, announced today that has been granted membership as a broker-dealer with the National Association for Security Dealers (NASD).
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February 3, 2004
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has served as financial advisor to Marathon Technologies Corporation and assisted the company in raising $8.8 million in venture financing. Marathon, the only developer and supplier of fault and disaster tolerant solutions for industry-standard Microsoft® Windows® platforms, will use this funding for the launch of its patented Endurance® Virtual FTserverTM software.
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October 1, 2003
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc., a technology-focused investment banking firm, announced today that it had successfully completed the sale of certain interactive television assets of WorldGate Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGAT), the leading provider of interactive entertainment solutions for the cable television industry.
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February 28, 2003
WorldGate Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGAT), the leading provider of interactive entertainment solutions for the cable television industry, announced today that it has retained Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. as a financial advisor to assist the company in evaluating various strategic and financing alternatives available to the company.
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January 13, 2003
Boston Corporate Finance, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has joined M&A International, the world’s leading international mergers and acquisitions network.
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In the News

June 26, 2007
BusinessWeek : “What's the Value of Open Source?” – Jereme LeBlanc, Vice President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing MySQL's growth potential in the open source software market.
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May 2007
Corporate UK : “Axon Digital Design Sold to Consortium” – Jarrad Zalkin of Boston Corporate Finance discusses the cross-border sale of Axon Digital design to Goldman Sachs and Potosi.
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March 15, 2007
MarketWatch : “Cisco Systems to buy WebEx for $3.2 billion” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing Cisco's acquisition of WebEx.
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March 2, 2007
BusinessWeek : “Oracle: Consolidation Catalyst?” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing how Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion Solutions will affect the rest of the BI/CPM landscape.
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February 28, 2007
BusinessWeek : “HP's New Soft Spot for Software” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing HP's M&A strategy.
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February 13, 2007
Investor's Business Daily : “Company's Software Automates Sales Force” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing how SaaS will affect the traditional software application providers.
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November 6, 2006
The Motley Fool : “Kanbay Sells Out. So Who's Next?” – Brad Adams, Managing Director of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing the recent acqusition of Kanbay by Capgemini SA.
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November 3, 2006
Red Herring: “Oracle Buys Stellent, SPL” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing the recent acqusition of Stellent and SPL by Oracle.
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September 22, 2006
MarketWatch: “While H-P Played Spy Games, Rivals Got Busy” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing EMC and IBM's push into the software markets.
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September 18, 2006
ByteandSwitch: “EMC Pockets Network Intelligence” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an article discussing EMC's purchase of Network Intelligence.
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August 2006
DMReview: “Boston Corporate Finance View of the IBM Acquisition of ISSX” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently featured in an editorial discussing IBM's purchase of Internet Security Systems.
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August 24, 2006
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “IBM Pays $1.3 billion for ISS” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently quoted in an article discussing IBM's purchase of Internet Security Systems.
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August 23, 2006
Red Herring: “IBM Buys ISS for $1.3B” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently quoted in an article discussing IBM's acquisition of Internet Security Systems.
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August 22, 2006
SDA-India: “Tech Acquisitions on the Rise in 2006” – Boston Corporate Finance was recently quoted in an article discussing the state of the technology M&A market in 2006.
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August 14, 2006
InformationWeek: “FileNet Buy Makes It Clear Where IBM Is Headed With Applications” – Murray Beach, President of Boston Corporate Finance, was recently quoted in an article discussing IBM's software strategy in response to its purchase of FileNet.
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August 11, 2006
CRN.com: “Cheap Shares Spark Software Mergers” – Boston Corporate Finance was recently quoted in an article discussing the IBM acquisition of FileNet.
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August 6, 2006
InformationWeek: “Tech Acquisitions Up” – Boston Corporate Finance was recently featured in an article discussing the state of the technology M&A market.
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October, 2005
M&A Today: “Technology with and International Focus with Boston Corporate Finance” – Boston Corporate Finance was recently featured in M&A Today’s October issue.
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May 24, 2005
The Deal: "SAP Gains on Oracle" - Murray Beach, President and Managing Director at BCF, was recently quoted in The Deal's coverage of the aftereffects of the Oracle / Peoplesoft merger.
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