Dow Jones Launches Daily Newsletter Covering the Buyout Industry; LBO Wire Reports on Deals, Fund Raising, Financing and People for Professionals and Investors Involved in Private Equity

Business Wire, Sept 27, 2004

NEW YORK -- Dow Jones Financial Information Services today launched LBO Wire, a daily e-mail newsletter covering the buyout market for executives at private-equity firms, and their investors, bankers, lawyers and others in the industry.

LBO Wire provides extensive coverage of every U.S. buyout deal, including the middle-market and small deals not covered anywhere else. The newsletter details how companies are being priced, valued and financed, and breaks news on exit opportunities for portfolio companies. It also pinpoints which institutional investors have just allocated fresh dollars for buyout funds and which money managers have just closed on buyout funds of funds.

In addition, the newsletter covers people's moves at buyout firms, lenders and portfolio companies, and tracks key statistics and rankings. LBO Wire is delivered to subscribers by e-mail every weekday by 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.

LBO Wire is proving to be a powerful tool in the portfolio of financial-industry executives. According to Peter C. Brockway, managing partner, Brockway Moran & Partners, "a daily newsletter dedicated to news about buyouts, LBO Wire is a valuable source of up-to-the-minute actionable information about our industry."

Geoffrey S. Rehnert, founder and co-CEO of Audax Group, noted that LBO Wire is "a unique service that quickly updates you with the latest news on LBO activity, fund raising and market statistics."

Led by David Toll, managing editor of Private Equity at Dow Jones Financial Information Services, LBO Wire is staffed by a dedicated team of reporters, with contributions from reporters at other Dow Jones publications including Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.

"LBO Wire serves an unmet need in the market for a daily, must-read source of information on every aspect of the buyout market," Mr. Toll said. "Executives in the industry currently have to wade through multiple, daily e-mails that miss the small- and middle-market deals, or else wait for an outdated print publication that lacks fund-raising news. LBO Wire delivers all the news they need in one place--in a sophisticated, easy-to-navigate format--with deals organized by sector, size and geography."

He added: "The LBO market has evolved dramatically from the late 1980s. LBO Wire's coverage and format reflect that evolution."

For more information about LBO Wire, please visit http://www.djnewsletters.com/Product.aspx?fp=NMII or call Jamie Calacanis at 212-343-1900, ext. 131. A sample issue is available at http://www.djnewsletters.com/Sites/34_sample.html.> About Dow Jones Newswires

Through its Dow Jones Newswires Unit, Dow Jones (www.djnewsletters.com) produces focused, sector-specific online databases, newsletters and industry events as well as providing (www.djnewswires.com) real-time news for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange and energy markets, and also offers news for financial firms' Web sites. Newsletters published by Dow Jones include Private Equity Analyst, VentureWire Professional, LBO Wire, and Daily Bankruptcy Review. VentureSource, the leading database of venture capital information, is published by VentureOne Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones.