The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business newspapers, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed in 23 cities across the globe, has a daily circulation of 426,451 (ABC figures, July 2007) and a readership of more than 1.3 million people worldwide. Part of the FT Group, the Financial Times is widely considered to be indispensable reading for senior decision-makers in business, finance and public affairs. www.ft.com

mergermarket is an independent Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) intelligence service, with the largest network of dedicated M&A journalists on the ground in 62 locations across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.  This team focuses on gathering actionable proprietary intelligence, creating the only origination database of live targets and bidders.  mergermarket is also an unrivalled source of deal history. Public and private deals across a range of sectors can be searched using an exhaustive database. This proprietary intelligence and historical deals database is available to over 130,000 individual subscribers from more than 2,500 of the world's principal advisory firms, investment banks, law firms, private equity firms and corporates.  mergermarket is part of The Mergermarket Group, which has over 450 employees worldwide and regional headoffices in London, Hong Kong and New York. www.mergermarket.com