Dirks, Van Essen & Murray is the leading merger-and-acquisition firm in the U.S. newspaper industry.

Since its inception in 1980, the firm has focused primarily on assisting companies in the sale, acquisition and valuation of daily and weekly newspapers for a variety of purposes. It has thus established itself as the industry’s top authority on transactions and valuations. In addition, DV&M offers comprehensive operational and financial consulting services to newspaper companies.

The firm has successfully closed hundreds of newspaper transactions and has handled many more deals than all other firms combined. Since the mid-1990’s, Dirks, Van Essen & Murray has been involved in more than half of all daily newspaper transactions, while all other firms combined have accounted for less than 20%.

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American Community Newspapers sells its Northern Virginia Newspapers to HPR Hemlock LLC

PLANO, TX - March 28, 2011 - American Community Newspapers has sold the company?s Northern Virginia division to HPR Hemlock LLC.   The division?s weekly newspapers include Leesburg Today, Ashburn Today, the Arlington Sun Gazette and the Great Falls, McLean, Oakton, Vienna Sun Gazette. Specialty publications include the quarterly Loudoun Magazine, and monthly Loudoun Business and Middleburg Life magazines.  This suite of publications has a combined circulation of more than 191,000. Dirks, Van E... More
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