NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 08/03/09 -- Marlin & Associates (M&A), the New York-based boutique investment banking firm specializing in acquisitions and divestitures of U.S. and international middle-market technology, information and business services firms, today announced its most recent transaction. Thomson Reuters has acquired M&A's client, Vhayu Technologies Corporation. Vhayu, based in Los Gatos, CA, is a leading provider of high-speed data analysis solutions. The terms of the deal for privately-held Vhayu were undisclosed.

Vhayu is the leading provider of enterprise tick data solutions with over 70 customers worldwide. Through its patented Velocity and Squeezer technologies, Vhayu combines software and hardware to provide significant competitive advantages by enabling faster and smarter trading decisions for financial firms concerned with the processing and storage of market data.

Marlin & Associates helped manage the process, assisted in the negotiations and acted as exclusive strategic and financial advisor to Vhayu's management and investors, which included Menlo Ventures and Garage.com

"We were pleased to have helped CEO Jeff Hudson, Menlo Ventures, Garage.com, as well as the other owners, employees and managers of Vhayu to bring this transaction to a successful closure," said Ken Marlin, M&A's managing partner.

Jeff Hudson, CEO at Vhayu, said: "This acquisition brings together technology and content that will generate a powerful new class of solutions for financial services customers. By deeply and seamlessly integrating Thomson Reuters valuable content with the analytics and storage technology of Vhayu, customers will enjoy new solutions that will greatly expand the value of market data."

About Vhayu Technologies Corporation

Vhayu delivers the fastest market data solutions for the capture and high-speed analysis of massive amounts of streaming and historical data to the world's leading financial institutions. Through its unique patented Velocity and Squeezer technologies, Vhayu combines software and hardware to provide significant competitive advantages to financial firms concerned with the processing and storage of tick data by enabling faster and smarter trading decisions. Partnered with some of the world's leading technology and financial services organizations, Vhayu's customers include 8 of the top 10 global financial institutions, the leading online discount broker, the largest financial information provider, major hedge funds and trading systems vendors.

Vhayu was founded in 1998 by Intel technologists who brought together over twenty years of experience architecting high performance hardware and software solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company also has offices in New York, London and Tokyo.