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Positioning Your Company for Sale: What Are the Key Value Drivers?
Program Code:
107
Date:
Monday, May 19, 2008
Time:
12:45 PM to 1:45 PM
EST
SPEAKER
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Carson Biederman is a managing partner of The Mustang Group, a private equity firm focused on acquiring niche-leading businesses between $10 million and $200 million of revenue. Mustang is an active investor in multi-channel marketers, including The Vermont Teddy Bear Company, which Mustang took private in 2005. Carson has spent his career in private equity and investment banking, having worked at Bain Capital and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette prior to co-founding Mustang in 2003.
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Mr. Rosenfeld founded Potpourri Group, Inc. in 1998, after serving as CEO of Hanover Direct, a publicly traded multi-title catalog company. Potpourri Group published three catalog titles with revenues of $30 million dollars in 1998 and currently publishes 12 titles with revenues of over $200 million. Mr. Rosenfeld transformed Hanover Direct from a private company with $15 million in revenues in 1970 to a publicly traded company with over $700 million in revenues as of 1994. He was named Direct Marketing Person of the Year in 1995 by New York Direct Marketing Day.
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Donald Steiner, Managing Partner, Webster Capital
Helen Yang joined American Capital in January 2006 in the New York office. Prior to joining American Capital, she was a Vice President at Lightyear Capital, a New York based private equity fund with $2 billion under management. At Lightyear, Helen evaluated and executed a variety of principal investments in the communications, energy, financial and business services sectors.
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Description
Knowing that you may one day sell your business, what measures should you consider today to maximize shareholder value in the future? Who are the potential buyers? This session will include a panel of experts who have been through the sale process and who will identify the key value drivers that most buyers look for when approaching
a potential acquisition. They will differentiate between private equity buyers and industry buyers. Learn basic steps that you can implement immediately which have the potential of adding value in the shortterm and those that will result in a bigger pay-off down the line.