THE DEAL AND INTRALINKS CREATE ORIGINAL VIDEO SERIES FEATURING NOTABLE INVESTMENT BANKERS

"Thought Leaders of Wall Street" Discusses Key Dealmaking Trends Through Interviews And Discussions

September 9, 2008--New York, N.Y.--The Deal LLC, the authoritative source of deal economy news, today announces a partnership with IntraLinks Inc., the leading provider of online workspaces for secure document exchange. The partners will launch the "Thought Leaders of Wall Street" video series, a collection of in-depth interviews featuring notable investment bankers.

The fresh, innovative "Thought Leaders of Wall Street" series, sponsored exclusively by IntraLinks, brings senior executives' insight and expertise on the deal economy directly to viewers' desktops. Available on TheDeal.com, IntraLinks.com, The Deal's Blog Network and The Deal's Facebook page, the first videos in the series will focus on dealmaking trends on topics ranging from healthcare and the middle market to sovereign wealth funds.

The series includes exclusive one-on-one interviews with the following prominent investment bankers:

• Michael J. Boublik, Co-Head of M&A - Americas, Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking Division

• Robert DeSutter, Co-Head of Healthcare Equity Investment Banking, Piper Jaffray

• Charles J. Ditkoff, Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Healthcare Group, Corporate & Investment Banking, Banc of America Securities

• John Eydenberg, Managing Director, Head of Leveraged Finance, Americas, Deutsche Bank Securities

• Kenneth W. Hitchner, Partner, Global Head of Healthcare Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs

• Alan Jones, Co-Head, Global Private Equity, Morgan Stanley

• Gary Parr, Deputy Chairman, Lazard

• Adam Sokoloff, Managing Director & Head of Financial Sponsors Group, Jefferies & Company, Inc.

"The Deal's partnership with IntraLinks reflects our commitment to developing compelling and interactive content that's easily accessible online," said Robert M. Clark, COO and publisher, The Deal LLC. "The Thought Leaders of Wall Street video collection provides a Web-based community experience that exposes dealmakers to a variety of viewpoints from experienced advisers in the M&A market."

The "Thought Leaders of Wall Street" video series will be refreshed with content from investment bankers speaking at upcoming The Deal Events into 2009.

About IntraLinks
IntraLinks® On-Demand Workspaces™ connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow.

IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime using a web browser. Since 1997, more than 750,000 participants representing over 90,000 organizations worldwide have used
IntraLinks On-Demand Workspaces™ to communicate and collaborate on thousands of projects and transactions. IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices around the world. For more information, visit www.intralinks.com.

About The Deal LLC
The Deal LLC (www.thedeal.com) is a diversified media company that is the authoritative voice of the deal economy. We serve the global deal community-corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors-by providing business and financial news and information that offers fresh insights on the deal economy, a set of interrelated activities, focused on dealmaking of all kinds, whose purpose is to generate corporate growth in a continually changing global market. We offer a comprehensive line of print and electronic products - The Deal, The Daily Deal and TheDeal.com - and live annual events including Private Capital Symposium, Distressed Investing Forum, Corporate Dealmaker Forum and M&A Outlook. The Deal LLC, a privately held company, is owned by private investment funds, including U.S. Equity Partners LP, sponsored by Wasserstein & Co. LP.