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investor Veronis Suhler

media advisory reports that it now ranked Number 7 among the Top 10 tradeshow management organizations in North America, managing 6 of the 200 largest tradeshows in the US and Canada. (more...)

 

media advisory Merger of DTN

Tradelink and TradingProduce.com to be renamed ITRADENETWORKS ** Venture World's Leading

Commerce Solution for

Commerce Solution for Produce

and Other Perishable Industries New York June 1, 2001 Data Transmission

world's premier business to business Internet site for the food and agriculture industries, today announced

the new name of their venture, iTradeNetworks. The combined company will be led by Robert Bonavito, Chief Executive Officer, John Abkes, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Zia Zahri, Chief Technical Officer. The merger was first announced in March 2001. (more...) ** Canon Correspondences LLC portfolio company of VS&A Correspondences Partners II, L.P. Veronis Suhler

and Canon Correspondences Add to Growing List of Trade Publishing Titles and Directories with the Acquisition of the U.S. and International Editions of Medical Device Register New York Feb. 23, 2001

VS&A Correspondences Partners II, L.P. and CANON CORRESPONDENCES LLC announced today that CANON CORRESPONDENCES has acquired Medical Device Register and Medical Device Register International (MDR) from Medical Economics Company, Montvale, NJ, unit

media advisoryof the Thomson Corporation. ** HCIA

Sachs portfolio company of VS&A Correspondences Partners III, L.P. HCIA Sachs and HBS International Merge to Form Healthcare Information Giant ILLINOIS Dec. 4, 2000 HCIA Sachs and HBS International (HBSI) today announced the completion of an agreement to merge the healthcare information businesses of both companies.

HCIA

Sachs the leading provider

of

strategic information, market intelligence, and analysis to the

healthcare industry along with HBSI, the nation's most influential source of healthcare process and outcomes information, are joining to form new company to be named Solucient, which headquartered in Evanston, IL. The head of the new company HCIA Sachs' CEO Bob Brown,

while HBSI's President and CEO, Gregg Bennett, serves as President. ** Phillips Business Information, Inc. portfolio company of VS&A Correspondences Partners III, L.P. VS&A Correspondences Partners III, LP Announces New Management Team at Phillips Business Information NEW YORK Nov. 16, 2000 VS&A Correspondences Partners III, L.P., the $1 billion private equity affiliate of element merchant bank Veronis Suhler, has appointed new management team at its recently acquired Phillips Business Information, Inc.

(PBI), the

leading business publisher

and

trade show operator based in Potomac, MD. ionex telecorrespondences Completes $345 Million Financing Plan TEXAS Oct. 30, 2000 ionex telecorrespondences, one of the fastest growing providers of broadband correspondences services over next generation digital network, announced that it has closed $150 million equity investment which complements $195

million credit facility provided earlier by Lucent Technologies. This $150 million round of equity financing was led by AEA Investors Inc., and VS&A Correspondences Partners III, L.P., the private equity affiliate of New York element merchant bank Veronis Suhler, and includes Texas Growth Fund, Raymond James Capital, BNY Capital Partners, L.P., and Weiss, Peck & Greer. In addition, Gilbert Global Equity Partners, L.P., founding investor of ionex, participated in this round. In the last 11 months, since the company was founded, ionex has raised over $425 million. VS&A Correspondences Partners III, LP Takes Minority Stake in

London's ITE Group; Veronis Suhler Element Investment Fund to Help Expand Emerging Markets B2B Exhibit Organizer LONDON Oct.

11, 2000 VS&A Correspondences Partners III, LP, the private equity affiliate of U.S. element merchant bank Veronis Suhler, has taken minority stake in ITE Group Plc, one of Europe's leading trade show and business conference organizers (www.ite exhibitions.com ) In exchange for its (pound)30 million investment (approximately $45 million), Veronis Suhler will receive approximately 17% stake

in publicly held ITE, which trades on the London Stock Exchange. Veronis Suhler

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