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Baird's Investment Banking Group is pleased to announce the following transaction:

November 2009


Archipelago Learning
Initial Public Offering
$118.6 Million


Baird served as co-manager of this offering.


Archipelago Learning (“Archipelago” or the “Company”) (NasdaqGM: ARCL) recently completed an initial public offering of 7,187,500 shares, including the over-allotment option, of common stock at a price of $16.50 per share, generating gross proceeds of $118.6 million for the Company. The proceeds received by the Company will be used for general corporate purposes.

Archipelago Learning, a leading subscription-based online education company, provides standards-based instruction, practice, assessments, and productivity tools that improve the performance of educators and students via proprietary web-based platforms. During the 2008-2009 school year, Archipelago products were utilized by approximately 8.9 million students in over 21,000 schools in 50 states who answered over 2.8 billion practice questions.

For additional information about this transaction, please contact:
Managing Director
312-609-4972
Managing Director
414-298-7830
Managing Director
617-426-5789
Vice President
312-609-4922

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