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M & A : Public and Private Last Updated: Jul 13th, 2006 - 10:20:17


Lehman Brothers Acquires Townsend Analytics

Location: New York, NY
Date: Dec 20, 2005

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Lehman Brothers acquired Townsend Analytics, a premier software development and global service provider for the financial services industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.


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Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH)

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Townsend Analytics has been changing the way the world trades since 1985. The Chicago-based company created many technology innovations that are now considered standards in the financial services industry. These include the first real-time financial software under Microsoft Windows®; the first product to provide real-time streaming data over the Internet; the first integrated solution for NASDAQ trading rooms; and the first Windows-based direct-access trading solution. Townsend Analytics also developed Archipelago and the Archipelago Exchange, the nation’s first all-electronic, fully open exchange. The firm has engineered direct-access solutions for money managers, asset managers, hedge funds and mutual funds worldwide.

RealTick, created by Townsend Analytics, is the electronic trading industry’s premier direct-access research and trading software. RealTick delivers real-time market data, news and analytics; sophisticated trading tools; unrivaled access to exchanges and ECNs; and risk management tools to institutions, broker-dealers and individual investors. RealTick’s advanced technical design is supported by state-of-the-art data centers and a redundant network for market data and orders.

Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH), an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo and operates in a network of offices around the world.

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Stuart Townsend; MarrGwen Townsend

Jeffrey S. Wecker, managing director and global head of Electronic Client Services.

Bart McDade, global head of Equities


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