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Kemp Little ACTS on sale of ebenchmarkers limited

February 2005

Kemp Little LLP, the specialist City law firm, advised the founders of eBenchmarkers Limited, David Carpenter and Stephen Adler, on the recent sale of eBenchmarkers Limited to Datamonitor plc.

eBenchmarkers provides operational performance benchmarking, focussing on financial services companies. The business serves over 50 blue-chip clients, and is experiencing high levels of growth having demonstrated an annual renewal rate of client business of 100%.

Siobhan McElhinney, partner in the corporate group, led the team and was assisted by Nadia Christodoulou (corporate) and David Williams (employment).

Siobhan McElhinney commented “I was delighted to be introduced to David and Stephen and enjoyed working with them and their corporate finance adviser, Ben Tolley, at Longacre Partners. We worked to a tight timetable which was made possible as a result of the commercial and pragmatic approach taken by all parties to the transaction and an understanding of the objectives of everyone involved. David and Stephen will continue to be closely involved in the business moving forward and I’m sure will make a great success of the opportunities that arise as a result of being part of the Datamonitor group”.

David Carpenter commented “We were very impressed with Siobhan's professionalism and commitment to getting the deal done”.

Neil Blundell and Mark Cummings at Bird & Bird acted for Datamonitor plc.

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For further information, please contact:

Kemp Little LLP
Siobhan McElhinney (020) 7710 1628
email: siobhan.mcelhinney@kemplittle.com
http://www.kemplittle.com

Penrose
Shona Prendergast (020) 7786 4884
email: shonap@penrose.co.uk

Kemp Little LLP is a specialist City law firm dedicated to commercial, corporate, employment and regulatory legal work for business and technology clients.

The firm's core attributes are:

transparency in service delivery: the firm launched the first client WIP (work in progress) extranet to enable clients to see real time 'what's on the clock'.
an entrepreneurial approach: the practice is the only law firm to be named in Real Business' survey of promising younger businesses, '50 to watch'
innovation in legal services: Kemp Little is first UK law firm LLP
technical excellence: Kemp Little was named Technology Team of the Year at the prestigious Legal Business awards