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ASSOCIATION FOR CORPORATE GROWTH
New York Chapter (www.acgnyc.org) |
FALL 2007 - Vol 3, Issue 2
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Join us on November 14th (Thursday) for our 5th Annual Capital Connection Wine Event. Our Wine Event has continued to grow every year with an increasing amount of intermediaries and investment bankers in attendance. This year we expect over 500 attendee's, along with representatives from over 35 private equity firms serving 70 different varieties of fine wines.
Clifton Yen (American Capital Strategies) and his committee have spent months making sure this years Capital Connection Wine Event will enhance the value of those participating.
We encourage you to support of our sponsors including: Merrill Corporation, KPMG, Proudfoot Consulting, GMAC, Marsh (MMC), Weil Gotshal, The Deal, Dealmaker Magazine, Dow Jones, and Mergers and Acquistion Journal. Private Equity firms participating include: Allied Capital, American Capital Strategies, American Securities Capital Partners, Apax Partners, Ares Management, Arsenal Capital Partners, Audax Group, Behrman Capital, Bolder Capital, Charterhouse Group, Clarion Capital Partners, Eminent Capital Partners, Eos Partners, FdG Associates, Founders Equity, GenNx360 Capital Partners LP. , Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Co., High Road Capital Partners, ICV Capital , Insight Equity, J.F. Lehman & Company, Lincolnshire Management, Long Point Capital, MTS Health Investors, Pouschine Cook Capital Management, Sawmill Capital, Sentinel Capital Partners, Sterling Investment Partners, The Gladstone Companies, The Jordan Company, The Riverside Company, and Wafra Partners. |
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This year's 3rd annual ACG Stratton Ski and Board Networking Conference will take place on January 27- 29 (Sunday-Tuesday). Last year 90 members participated in what became an around the slope networking event. This year we expect in excess of 110 skier and boarders to take advantage of this unique event. Where else can you find professionals in private equity, hedge funds, lending, investment banking, legal and accounting sharing a number of experiences with each other that magnifies the possibility of deals being developed, way after the snow has melted.
This years Stratton Ski Event will be held In conjunction with our Northeast Chapters. ACG has secured special room and ticket rates as well as insured top notch accommodations. You don't have to know how to ski or board to participate. Enjoy Stratton's premier spa, cross country ski, work out, or shop at Manchester, Vermont's fine selection of Outlet stores. |
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This is your association and we encourage you to get involved. Email us at halstead@acg.org if you would like to get involved in a committee or have an idea for a program or speaker. |
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ACG-New York's Associate Networking Event took place on the balcony of the CiT building overlooking Bryant Park and the NY Public Library. The purpose of this event is to recognize up and coming professionals and introduce them to how ACG can be instrumental in their careers.
Special thank you's go out to our sponsors including: CiT, Houlihan Lokey and Stax. ACG would like to thank Michelle Von Hellemont of Stax and Justin Turner of Houlihan Lokey for making this event possible. We also thank CiT for supporting ACG and allowing us to hold this event in their office. |
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Under the direction of our Golf Chairman, Jeff Wurst (Ruskin Moscou and Faltischek) 30 teams of Golfers spent the day networking at the Apawamis Golf Club in Rye. You couldn't have asked for a nicer day of golf...but, more importantly, new contacts were made and potential deals sourced. We'll return once again to Apawamis in 2008. We thank Jeff and his committee for the effort in putting this event together. It's very much appreciated. |
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8 months ago, as PE's began to focus on distressed businesses, ACG started planning our 1st Distressed Capital Connection. Our focus for the conference was to look at the opportunities that would be available to our members, should there be downturn in the economy. What we didn't plan on was the collapse of the mortgage markets and home markets as well as a 1/2 point reduction by the Fed prior to the conference. In conjunction with the Turnaround Management Association, the conference was attended by over 400 participants representing private equity distressed funds, hedge funds, investment banks, turnaround professionals, distressed uni-tranche lenders, and other transactional professionals. Our three economists (Gene Sperling, former Clinton Economist, Peter Schiff, and Kingman Penniman added a great deal of knowledge to the subject. In addition, participating Distressed Investors benefited from the potential new deal flow. |
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Led by Robert Landis (Riverside Company) the LBO Sponsor Group is restricted to professionals in private equity to discuss topics of mutual interest. ACG holds 4 meetings a year on a number of topics. Recently, Albert Angrisani, President of Greenfield Online spoke. We will shortly post slides and audio relating to this meeting.
Speaker: Albert Angrisani, President and Chief Executive Officer, Greenfield Online/Ciao (Nasdaq: SRVY), the world's leading provider of online data to the marketing research and consulting industries. Overview: Turnaround experts excel at company forensics: they figure out how a company got into trouble and fix it - but can a turnaround be avoided if you apply their thought processes before a company hits a wall? By the time most PE firms recognize they need a turnaround, it's too late for simple measures to put the firm back on track. Ultimately, a turnaround means loss of time against objectives, reduced revenue and profit to the PE firm and its investors, and distraction from expanding the return on the portfolio.
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Please welcome Merrill Corporation as our Platinum sponsor for our 2008 Program Year. Merrill has also agreed to sponsor mostly every ACG event during the year...which actually qualifies it as a Super Platinum sponsor. We thank them for allowing ACG to be able to put on quality programming and events that will benefit the dealmaking community.
Merrill is a diversified communication and document service company applying advanced information systems and Intranet/Internet technology to provide a broad range of services to financial, legal and corporate clients. Through this comprehensive agreement Merrill seeks to create awareness within ACG-NY for its DataSite online virtual deal room software for due diligence, along with its printing capabilities and translation services. |
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What makes ACG-NY a thriving and growing networking organization? It's our Executive Board and Board of Directors. So, next time you run into them (they have a ribbon on their badges), ask them how you can get involved in ACG. A new board will be selected for 2009. Board members are selected in part by their activity in supporting ACG. You don't need to be a Director to participate...Have an idea, submit an article, know someone who should join ACG, or a programming idea...it's as easy as sending me an email at rblumenfeld@bryantparkcapital.com and I will get back to you.
Board Members: Steve Lewis-Fitzmaurice & Co., Steve Goldsmith- Healthcare Business Credit, Bob Landis- Riverside, Paul Smolevitz-TM Capital, Michael Kliegman-PriceWaterhouseCooper, Barry Kolevzon, George Horowitz, Jeff Wurst-Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, Sam Seraphim-Fieldston Investors, Justin Abelow- Deutsche Bank, Thomas Steiglehner- Silver Point Capital, David N. Deutsch-DND & Co., William Kane-MTS Health Investors, Jerome Romano-TM Capital, Kenneth Kramer, Michelle Von Hellemont-Stax, Bev Landstreet-Proudfoot, Lee Justo- York International, Toby Dingemans-KPMG, Craig Hoffman-NexCen Brands, Jim Sullivan-Merrill Corporation, William Henrich-Getzler Henrich, Mark Kuehn-Gibbons, Robert Barnwell-Royal Bank of Scotland, Ted Chasanoff-Mahoney Cohen, Kevin Genda-Ceberus, Steve Goldsmith-Healthcare Finance Group, Djena Graves-ICV Capital, Rob Long-Allied Capital, Fridolf Hanson-Wells Fargo
Honorary Board Members: Mark Opel-American Capital Strategies David Soloway-The Madison Group Executive Committee: Robert M. Blumenfeld (Bryant Park Capital), Robert Landis (Riverside), Michael Kliegman (PriceWaterhouseCooper), Stephen Prostor (Citibank) Barry Kolevzon (Arglen), Burt Alimansky (Alimanksy Capital Group), David Feldman (Feldman, Weinstein & Smith), Robert Barnwell (RBOS) Ex Presidents Committee: Calvin Navatto, Burt Alimansky, Alan Gelband, Gary Roelke, Ronald Johnson and David Cunn. |
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If your interested in getting involved in ACG..the best way is by getting involved on a committee, recommending speakers and new conference ideas. Please contact Bobby Blumenfeld at rblumenfeld@bryantparkcapital.com I'll see you at our next event, Bobby Blumenfeld/PresidentAssociation for Corporate Growth (ACG-New York)
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