Transactions handled by
Broadwater & Associates professionals

Book Publishing

Sale of the assets of Boyds Mills Press, a unit of Highlights for Children, Inc. to Thinkingdom, Ltd., d/b/a Boyds Mills & Kane

Sale of Studio Fun International, Inc.,a subsidiary of Trusted Media Brands Inc. (formerly The Reader's Digest Association) to Readerlink Distribution Services LLC

Acquisition of Bibliomotion, Inc. by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Sale of the publishing assets of Egmont US, Inc., a subsidiary of Egmont International Holding A/S, Inc., to Lerner Publishing Group, Inc..

Sale of HighBridge Company, a subsidiary of Workman Publishing Co., Inc., to Recorded Books Inc.

Sale of World Almanac Books, a subsidiary of The Reader's Digest Association and publisher of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, to Facts on File, Inc.

Sale of Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of The Nielsen Company, to Random House, Inc.

Sale of Sterling Publishing Company to Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Acquisition of Accord Publishing Company by Andrews McMeel Publishing

Sale of Running Press Book Publishers to Perseus Books Group

Sale of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd. to Hachette Livre

Financial advisory services to The Quarto Group, Ltd.

Financial and strategic advisory services to Macmillan, Ltd.

Educational, Academic & Professional Publishing

Sale of certain textbook assets of Garland Science Publishing, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group LLC, to W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Acquisition of Westview Press, the academic publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Acquisition of Planners Press, the publishing division of The American Planning Association (APA) by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Acquisiion of GSE Resarch by Informa UK Limited operating as Taylor & Francis Group

Acquisition of Transaction Publishers, Inc. by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Acquisition of Speechmark Publishing Limited, a subsidiary of Electric Word PLC, by Informa UK Limited operating as Taylor & Francis Group

Acquisition of Holcomb Hathaway, Inc. by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Acquisition of Baywood Press by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Acquisition of Fred Pyrczak, Publisher by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Acquisition of Left Coast Press by Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Sale of Eye on Education, a leading publisher of K-12 professional development books and materials, to Taylor & Francis LLC.

Sale of Gareth Stevens Publishing, a subsidiary of The Reader's Digest Association, to an affiliate of Rosen Publishing Group

Sale of Productivity Press to Taylor & Francis Group LLC

Sale of Saxon Publishers to Harcourt, Inc.

Sale of Transcender, LLC by Information Holdings, Inc. to Kaplan, Inc., a unit of The Washington Post Co.

Sale of the legal publishing assets of Garland Publishing.

Newspaper Publishing

Financial advisory services to Deseret News Publishing Company in connection with the restructuring of its Salt Lake City (UT) Joint Operating Agreement with Kearns-Tribune LLC, a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, Inc.

Financial advisory services to Gannett Co., Inc. in connection with the termination of its Tucson (AZ) Joint Operating Agreement with Lee Enterprises, Incorporated

Financial advisory services to The Hearst Corporation in connection with the termination of its Seattle (WA) Joint Operating Agreement with The Seattle Times Company

Financial advisory services to The E. W. Scripps Company in connection with the termination of its Denver (CO) Joint Operating Agreement with The Denver Post Corporation

Financial advisory services to The E. W. Scripps Company in connection with the termination of its Albuquerque (NM) Joint Operating Agreement with Journal Publishing Company

Financial advisory services to News Journal Corporation, publishers of the Daytona Beach News-Journal

Financial and strategic advisory services to Charleston Newspapers, publishers of the Charleston Gazette and Charleston Daily Mail

The sale of seven New York Times Company newspapers

Financial advisory services to The E. W. Scripps Company in connection with the termination of their Birmingham (AL) Joint Operating Agreement

Valuation of The Denver Post Corporation on behalf of MediaNews Group and Media General, Inc.

Sale of Hemming's Motor News to American City Business Journals

Sale of Fox Valley Press, owned by The Copley Press, Inc., to Hollinger International Inc.

Acquisition of 45 newspapers from Hollinger International by Community Newspapers Holdings, Inc. (CNHI)

Sale of Stern Publishing, publisher of The Village Voice and other alternative newspapers

Acquisition of Thomson Corp.'s Arizona newspaper group by Freedom Communications

Sale of the San Francisco Examiner by The Hearst Corporation

Exchange of Florida newspapers between Freedom Communications and E.W. Scripps Company

Sale of the California properties of trader.com (now Trader Classified Media)

Valuation of The New York Post in connection with the formation of an employee stock ownership plan

Sale of the US newspaper publishing operations of Independent Newspapers, Ltd.

Valuation and sale of a 50% interest in the Fredericksburg (VA) Free-Lance Star Publishing Company

Sale of Tri-State Publishing to K-III Communications (now Primedia)

Acquisition of the Chicago (IL) Sun-Times by American Publishing Company

IPO advisory services for American Publishing Company

Business Media, Communications and Information

Acquisition of Kirkus Reviews, a unit of Nielsen Business Media, by Calendar Holdings LLC and Herbert Simon

Sale of Canon Communications to Apprise Media

Acquisition of The Ziff-Davis Publishing Company by Forstmann, Little & Co.

Acquisition and financing of Canon Communications

Acquisition and associated financing of Hart Publications by Chemical Week Associates

Acquisition of Aurigin Systems by Information Holdings, Inc.

Sale of Extel Financial Services to Pearson Plc.

Sale of News Corporation's Travel Information Group to Reed International Plc.

Digital Media

Equity investment in Yahoo! Corporation by The Ziff-Davis Publishing Company

Equity investment in Imagebuilder Software by Tribune Company

Sale of Softbank Interactive Marketing

Equity investment in Legend Entertainment by Random House, Inc.

Equity financing for Adcom, Inc. by Arbitron & GE Capital

Consumer Magazine Publishing

Sale of the consumer magazine publishing division of The Nielsen Company, including American Artist, Watercolor, Drawing, Workshop and Highlights magazines, to Interweave Press, a unit of Aspire Media LLC.

Sale of Murdoch Magazines to K-III (now Primedia, Inc.)

Other

Sale of Bernan Associates, the leading distributor of US Government publications, to Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Sale of Intercord Tongesellschaft mbH, the leading independent recorded music company in Germany, by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck to EMI Plc.

Sale of Muzak LP to Centre Capital Investors LP

Sale of Comcast Sound Communications to Muzak LP

Sale of a minority interest in Gift-Pax, Inc. to Bounty Hospital Services Ltd.