ALTERNATIVE FINANCING IN AN UNPREDICTABLE LOAN MARKET PROGRAM GUIDE SPONSOR
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 • The Beverly Hilton Hotel
TODAY’S PANELISTS
TODAY’S PANELISTS
KEVIN CROSS Cerberus California LLC
KARIM TEYMOURTACHE Union Bank
Kevin Cross is a Managing Director of Cerberus California, LLC. Mr. Cross joined the Cerberus Companies in 2004. While at Cerberus, he has originated and managed over $1 billion of middle market loans, equity and distressed investments and has sat on several boards. Mr. Cross’s responsibilities include originating, structuring, underwriting and managing middle market loans and investments. Prior to joining the Cerberus Companies, from 1995 to 2004, Mr. Cross was a Managing Director and member of the National Corporate Finance Committee at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin where he was responsible for managing over $6 billion of advisory assignments for private debt and equity placements, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and special situations. He also had principal investing responsibilities as a Board Member of HLHZ Investments, LLC from 2000 to 2004 and as a Principal of Century Park Capital Partners, an affiliated private equity fund, from 1999 to 2004. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, from 1991 to 1995, Mr. Cross was an Assistant Vice President in the Merchant Banking Group of Sanwa Bank where he originated, underwrote, managed and syndicated over $3 billion of senior and subordinated debt. He is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego.
Karim Teymourtache is a senior vice president and manager at Union Bank. In 2011, he took a leadership role in the national specialized industries group where he accelerated the growth of select lending businesses. Previously Teymourtache was a regional manager for the corporate banking group covering the Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Fernando Valley regions. In 2007, he was given additional responsibility to manage the West Los Angeles regional commercial banking group. The net income for that office more than tripled over the last two years. Prior to joining Union Bank in 2000, Teymourtache was a senior client manager at Bank of America. He holds a B.A. in international economics from American University in Paris, an M.A. in business economics from University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.B.A from the University of Southern California.
TODAY’S MODERATOR J. MICHAEL RICE GE Capital Michael Rice is a senior vice president of the structured finance group within commercial finance at GE Capital. Rice supports other GE Capital corporate lending and leasing teams in the Western half of the United States. His responsibilities include the origination, structuring, analysis and closing of a variety of financial products including project finance, critical asset finance, ESOPs, new market tax credits and tax-oriented partnerships. Prior to joining GE Capital in 2004, Rice held sales and management positions with Transamerica Financial and Heller Financial. He holds a B.S in business administration from Portland State University.
RAJ SOOD Focal Point Rajesh Sood is a managing director at Focal Point Partners, LLC. He serves as the lead advisor in leveraged buyouts, financings, and M&A transactions across a wide range of industries. Sood has focused on the middle market for the last 15 years and has successfully structured, marketed and closed more than $5 billion in senior, subordinated, preferred stock and common equity placements. Previously he was a senior member of the corporate finance team at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin. Prior to that, Sood worked in the corporate finance group at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities where he completed leveraged buyout, crossborder, high-yield and project finance transactions for leading companies in the United States. He holds a B.S. degree in biology from the University of Kansas and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and an M.B.A. with an emphasis in finance from the University of Texas in Austin
SPONSOR ACG LA
2011 ANNUAL SPONSORS
Sponsoring ACG LA meetings is a great way to increase your firm’s visibility among the decision makers and deal makers who attend. Members know that your support helps maintain our high quality programming and they appreciate your involvement. For more detailed sponsorship benefits, please visit www.acgla.org or call Andrew Apfelberg, Vice President, Sponsorship at 310.286.1700.
ACG L A is generously suppor ted by our Annual Sponsors, whose commitments enable us to produce the highest quality programming with reasonable attendance fees:
Avant Advisory Group
James F. Davidson, Managing Director, 714.924.7888, JDavidson@AvantAdvisory.com
CenterPoint M&A Advisors
TODAY’S SPONSORS
Chris Bandouveris, President, 818.593.7907, chris@centerpnt.com
DLC
Rahul Merani, Director of Client Services, 310.895.7000, rmerani@dlcinc.com
Frank Crystal & Company
Shawn Bernardini, Executive Director, 619.265.6305, bernardinis@FCRYSTAL.COM
Gallagher Equity Advisors
Michael Patrick, Managing Director, 818.539.1421, Michael_Patrick@ajg.com
Grant Thornton
Harris Smith, Partner, 213.596.3445, harris.smith@us.gt.com
Green Hasson & Janks LLP
Sherri Gastelum, Director Business Development, 310.873.1605, sgastelum@ghjadvisors.com
Houlihan Lokey, Howard & Zukin
Scott Kolbrenner, Managing Director, 310.712.6524, skolbrenner@hlhz.com
Intrepid Investment Bankers LLC
Gary S. Rabishaw, Managing Director, 310.478.9000, grabshaw@intrepidib.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS Rocky Gor, Senior Vice President GE Capital Telephone: 213.615.2131 Email: rockygor@ge.com
Lincoln International LLC
Kelly Kriebs, Partner Sidley Austin LLP
Telephone: 213.896.6683 Email: kkriebs@sidley.com
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Scott Adamson, Partner, 213.612.7365, sadamson@morganlewis.com
PNC Business Credit
Gail Bernstein, Executive Vice President, 626.432.7540, gail.bernstein@pncbusinesscredit.com
PROGRAM GUIDE SPONSOR
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Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff is a full service law firm representing companies across a wide breadth of industries, their principals and entrepreneurs. RHD’s seasoned attorneys provide thoughtful, focused legal counsel at competitive rates in matters involving: Corporate and Securities; Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Capital Recovery; Business Litigation; Estate Planning & Trust Litigation; Intellectual Property, Advertising & Promotions; Internet & New Media; Labor and Employment; and Real Estate. Contact: Andrew Apfelberg, Partner, 310.286.1700
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ABOUT ACG
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 20-21, 2011 at 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.
Driving Middle Market Growth in Los Angeles 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 53 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.
2011 ACG LA DIRECTORS & OFFICERS Chairman & President: Jason Brown GE Capital 213.615.2116
VP Private Equity: Steve Moon Duff & Phelps Securities 310.689.0070
Past President: Scott Kolbrenner Houlihan Lokey 310.712.6524
VP Research & Dev.: Chris Hebble Cerberus California, Inc. 310.903.5016
Secretary: Tom Cleary SNR Denton 213.892.5080
VP WIGI: Ivelisse Simon Avante Mezzanine Partners 310.667.9243
Treasurer: Bob Pearlman BDO USA, LLP 310.557.8228
VP ACG Cup: Gary Rabishaw Intrepid Investment Bankers 310.478.9000
VP Programs: Suzie Doran SingerLewak LLP 310.477.3924 VP Awards: Paul Gurrola BDO USA, LLP 310.203.1208 VP Membership: Ari Nadelman Lionfish Advisors, LLC 310.396.8000 VP Communications: Dianne Prust Wells Fargo Private Bank 310.426.3849 VP Sponsorship: Andrew Apfelberg Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff 310.286.1700 VP Corp Exec Forum: Lewis Stanton Stanton Associates LLC 818.752.6500
Chief Executive Officer: Bill Webster 310.245.5942 • bill@acgla.org
UPCOMING EVENTS November 16, 2011 - Restructuring Panel Evening Event at the California Club Downtown Los Angeles December 7, 2011 - Holiday Party Evening Event at the Beverly Hills Hotel
DIRECTORS AT LARGE Marc Deneen PNC Business Credit 818.752.6196 Tom Hayes PNC Business Credit 818.752.6104 Eric Klein Sheppard Mullin 310.228.3728 Rahul Merani DLC 310.895.7000 Doug Schreier ACG At Large 310.892.4972 Alain Rothstein Vicente Capital Partners 310.426.9710 Chapter Executive: Christyne Buteyn 310.426.9710 • info@acgla.org