Mergers and Acquisitions


Santa Fe Capital Group is the leading investment banking firm servicing the Internet service provider, Web hosting and e-commerce industries. Santa Fe Capital Group effected the first acquisition in the ISP industry – AGIS and Network 99 and it found buyers for two other national backbones: News Corporation’s backbone was aquired by Ziplink and DataXchange was acquired by RMI.Net. We have served as intermediary in more transactions involving more ISPs and Web hosters than any other similar investment banking firm in the world: over 70 transactions in more than four years.

Santa Fe Capital Group’s primary business is raising capital privately, finding buyers for owners of companies that seek to sell, and finding and assisting in the acquisition of targets for buyers. Its secondary channels are valuations, industry studies and seminars.

Santa Fe Capital Group has established a franchise in the ISP and Web hosting market. The underpinnings of this franchise are the following:

1. We find the best acquirers for our ISP clients;

2. We find the best investors for our Internet-related clients;

3. We act rapidly to get transactions for our deals early in the engagement; and

4. Because of the ubiquity of our frequently published valuation spreadsheets, Santa Fe Capital Group is one of the price setters in the purchase and sale of ISPs and Web hosters.

More ISPs and Web hosters seeking to be acquired list themselves with Santa Fe Capital Group than any other intermediary. Presently more than 40 ISPs and Web hosters are listed with Santa Fe Capital Group. Santa Fe Capital Group has initiated and advised on the sale or venture capital funding of 60 Internet companies since August, 1995, ranging in size from $250,000 to $12.5 million, with an average transaction size of $2.8 million. Santa Fe Capital Group has advised telephone companies (Telefono Larga Distancia), public utilities (Central & Southwest), and cable TV providers (Helicon) on their ISP strategies. We have also represented a number of cable TV carriers, CLECs and local telephone companies in their search for ISPs to acquire in their MSOs for cross-marketing and brand extension purposes.

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