5th Annual ACG LA Women of ACG Luncheon
June 15, 2012 • Mr. C Hotel
TODAY’S SPEAKER Joyce C. Johnson-Miller Relativity Capital, LLC Ms. Johnson-Miller is a Senior Managing Director and CoHead of Relativity Capital LLC, a private equity fund that invests in both distressed and healthy middle market companies. She is responsible for sourcing, structuring and negotiating transactions. She also serves on the Board of Directors of portfolio companies and works with portfolio company management teams to create shareholder value. Ms. Johnson-Miller has been an active investor in the private equity marketplace for more than 17 years. From 1993 to 2003, Ms. Johnson-Miller was a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management, LLC, where she was responsible for investing in both private equity and trading platforms. Ms. Johnson-Miller also worked as a Vice President with ING Bank’s Corporate Restructuring Group and she began her career at Citicorp’s Leveraged Capital Finance Group. Ms. Johnson-Miller has served on the Board of Directors of 13 companies. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of four privately held companies, including Marana Aerospace Solutions, Inc. (f.k.a. Evergreen Maintenance Center, Inc.) and Jessica’s. She also serves on the non-for profit boards of LaRabida Hospital in Chicago, IL and In-Motion in New York. She is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and serves as Vice Chairman of the 21st Century Foundation. Ms. Johnson-Miller is also an active member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PE WIN), a forum for senior women general partners, limited partners and private equity professionals to network and generally increase the profile of female leaders in the financial industry. Ms. Johnson-Miller received her B.A. from the University of Denver in 1987.
TODAY’S EVENT PROGRAM CHAIRS Amy Oswick Chairperson Women of ACG Committee
WOMEN OF ACG LA COMMITTEE Tracy Washburn J.P. Morgan
Peta Waligory Grant Thornton LLP
Lisa Leight Stanton Associates LLC
Dianne Prust
Katy Spillers Greenberg, Glusker Field Claman & Machtinger LLP
TODAY’S SPONSORS
Houlihan Lokey is an international investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. Houlihan Lokey has 14 offices and more than 800 employees in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm serves more than 1,000 clients each year, ranging from closely held companies to Global 500 corporations. Karen Miles, Managing Director Houlihan Lokey 310-553-8871 kmiles@hl.com
McGladrey is the brand under which RSM McGladrey, Inc., and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, serve clients’ business needs. Together, they rank as the fifth largest U.S. provider of assurance, tax and consulting services, with 7,000 professionals and associates in nearly 90 offices. McGladrey is dedicated to serving the middle market private equity firms and their portfolio companies with integrated transaction advisory, tax, audit, consulting and investmentbanking services. Their clients benefit from a single-point-of-contact service model and teams that operate as strategic partners though out the private equity lifecycle. McGladrey’s California practice consists of approximately 500 professionals in five offices: Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose. Dracy Wilson-Jones, Partner McGladrey 626-405-4509 darcy.wilson-jones@mcgladrey.com
Kirkland’s Los Angeles corporate practice handles a broad range of corporate matters, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and debt financings. A key focus of Kirkland’s LA office is handling complex transactional matters for middle market private equity, mezzanine, special opportunity and distressed debt funds. Members of the team have been recognized by Chambers as among the nation’s leading lawyers in the area of private equity, M&A and debt finance and by The Best Lawyers in America for their representation of clients in complex leveraged buyouts. Kirkland was also ranked #1 by Mergermarket based on the number of Global buyouts, US buyouts and US M&A deals handled by the firm in each of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.
TSG Consumer Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in branded consumer companies. With over $1.4 billion in equity capital under management, TSG has invested in over 50 brands and has built a team of investment professionals with extensive consumer experience. TSG seeks investments in the branded food, beverage, health & beauty, auto care, household, pet care, and consumer services categories. TSG invests in both minority and control transactions.
Eva Davis, Partner Kirkland & Ellis LLP 213-680-8508 eva.davis@kirkland.com
Hadley Mullin, Managing Director TSG Consumer Partners Hmullin@tsgconsumer.com 415-217-2336
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ABOUT ACG
Driving Middle Market Growth ACG LA is one of the largest and most active chapters of the Association for Corporate Growth (“ACG”) and the premier association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions. ACG LA delivers thought provoking, knowledge-based events and networking opportunities for professionals responsible for facilitating corporate growth initiatives at middle market companies. Participants in ACG LA’s monthly meetings, world class conferences and intimate roundtable discussions include corporate officers, private equity sources and service providers who seek to remain abreast of current issues relating to corporate growth and to interact with thought leaders. ACG presently has 57 chapters in North America and Europe, with 14,000 members from corporations, private equity, finance and professional service firms. Visit www.acgla.org or call 310.426.9710 to join.
MEMBER BENEFITS • ACG’s dynamic global membership database. • Intergrowth, ACG’s annual global conference, facilitates informal deal exchange and networking with more than 2,000 leading international corporate growth professionals. • Mergers and Acquisitions: The Dealmaker’s Journal, ACG’s monthly publication. ACG members may submit articles and columns for publication. • Achieving Corporate Growth, ACG’s monthly e-newsletter. •
Merger Mogul, an e-newsletter from Source Media that provides expert commentary, analysis and news on corporate and private equity-backed mergers and acquisitions, focusing primarily on middle market deals, people and transactions.
Become a member today to gain access to the above benefits and more: • Attend ACG LA’s monthly events at a large discount from the non- member rate. Attend ACG LA’s Annual Conference on September 11-12, 2012 a $150 savings. As a reminder, any ACG members who refer a new member to our chapter, will receive free admission to one of our monthly chapter meetings. For more details, please contact Christyne Buteyn or Ari Nadelman, our VP of Membership.
2012 ACG LA DIRECTORS & OFFICERS Andrew Apfelberg - Chairman Greenberg Glusker aapfelberg@greenbergglusker.com 310.553.3610 Jason Brown - Past Chairman GE Capital jason.brown@ge.com 213.615.2116 Thomas Cleary - Secretary Dykema Gossett tcleary@dykema.com 213.457.1760 Suzie Doran - Treasurer SingerLewak sdoran@singerlewak.com 310.477.3924 Paul Gurrola - VP Programs BDO USA pgurrola@bdo.com 310.203.1208 Stephen Lee - VP Awards K & L Gates stephen.lee@klgates.com 310.552.5000 Ari Nadelman - VP Membership Lionfish Advisors, LLC ari@lionfishadvisors.com 310.396.8000 Michael Patrick - VP Communications Gallagher Equity Advisors michael_patrick@ajg.com 818.539.1421 Gary Rabishaw - VP Sponsorship Intrepid Investment Bankers grabishaw@intrepidib.com 310.478.9000 Lewis Stanton - VP Corp Exec Forum Stanton Associates lstanton@stantonassoc.com 818.752.6500 Steven Moon - VP Private Equity Duff & Phelps Securities steve.moon@duffandphelps.com 310.689.0070 Amy Oswick - VP Women of ACG amy.oswick@gmail.com 213.689.4205
Chris Hebble - VP ACG Cup Cerberus California chebble@cerberuscapital.com 310.903.5016 DIRECTORS AT LARGE John Brumlik KPMG jbrumlik@kpmg.com 213.955.8180 Tom Hayes PNC Business Credit thomas.hayes@PNC.com 626.432.6134 Eric Klein Sheppard Mullin eklein@sheppardmullin.com 310.228.3728 Scott Kolbrenner Houlihan Lokey skolbrenner@hl.com 310.712.6524 Rahul Merani DLC rmerani@dlcinc.com 310.895.7000 Margaret Shanley Duff & Phelps margaret.shanley@duffandphelps.com 310.689.0072 Lisa Westhafer PNC Business Credit lisa.westhafer@pnc.com 310.809.9701 Bill Webster - Chief Executive Officer bill@acgla.org 310.245.5942 Christyne Buteyn - Chapter Executive info@acgla.org 310.426.9710 Paulette Dallas - Chapter Administrator paulette@paulettedallas.com 310.426.9710
UPCOMING EVENTS June 20, 2012 - State of Private Equity Panel Evening Event at the California Club Downtown Los Angeles
July 11, 2012 - Rush Hour Networking 5:30 – 7:30 pm – Napa Valley Grille Westwood