Overview of Transaction

• On May 20, 2021, Marlin Equity Partners announced that it has completed a growth equity investment in Exegy and Vela, two leading providers of global market data solutions that power the mission-critical trading operations of financial institutions
• Jim O’Donnell, CEO of Exegy, will serve as CEO of the combined Company and Jen Nayer, CEO of Vela, will serve as the Chief Strategy and Administration Officer of the combined Company
• The go-forward business will continue to provide a cutting-edge technology platform while maintaining the application programming interfaces (APIs) currently used by existing customers
• Additionally, the combined support organizations will offer Exegy’s leading global service automation and delivery technology

Significance of Transaction

• Exegy and Vela both provide flagship solutions for market data normalization and distribution as each company delivers highly complementary capabilities within the trading technology ecosystem
• Marlin has merged the two companies to create an end-to-end provider of premier market data solutions and managed services with the capability to deliver normalized real-time market data from exchanges to both buyside and sell-side organizations

FT Partners' Role

• FT Partners served as exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Exegy
• This transaction underscores FT Partners’ deep domain expertise in Capital Markets Technology, as well as our successful track record in generating highly favorable, category-defining outcomes for our clients