Sponsors

Platinum

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Transaction Services group helps clients objectively assess the pros and cons of acquisitions, alliances, divestitures and joint ventures before they begin screening candidates. We help companies evaluate every M&A decision, thereby helping them to deliver value. Our financial and tax due diligence enhances the buyer's understanding of the target business, increasing the likelihood the deal will achieve its objectives. Recognizing that deal issues vary from industry to industry, we have industry specialists who can provide clients with sector-specific solutions to complex deal issues in industries ranging from technology, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, and automotive, to consumer products

Gold

For more than 20 years, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has set the standard for working with organizations to tackle complex issues, boost performance and maximize value for stakeholders.

As the leading, independent global professional services firm, Alvarez & Marsal excels at problem solving and value creation. Serving clients ranging from international enterprises to middle market companies to public sector entities, the firm draws on a deep operational heritage and hands-on approach to deliver comprehensive performance improvement, turnaround management and corporate advisory services.

With a team of seasoned professionals based in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, the firm provides Turnaround Management services, including Performance Improvement; Turnaround and Restructuring Advisory; Interim and Crisis Management; Creditor Advisory and Claims Management. A&M's services also include: Business Consulting; Real Estate Advisory; Dispute Analysis & Forensics; Corporate Finance; Tax Advisory; and Transaction Advisory. The firm works with large and middle-market businesses around the world in the corporate, as well as public and health care sectors.

A regional private equity firm, based in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) with offices across the Middle-East/North African Region; Amwal relies on the expertise of its professionals, and is known for its intense dedication to regional growth companies. Amwal Al Khaleej has closed transactions that are amongst the largest, most complex and prominent in the region. Amwal Al Khaleej is today considered one of the prominent regional private investment powerhouses that sources, structures, and acts as an investor in strategic minority equity investments, private placements, privatizations, and buy-outs in the Middle-East and North-Africa (MENA) region.

As one of the world's most successful strategy consulting firms, we provide our clients with the best available strategic advice and commercial support. To that end, we employ more than 500 consulting staff across our network of 16 offices in the major cities of Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. From Fortune 500, Eurotop 300 and the largest Asia-Pacific firms to new economy leaders, senior executives turn to L.E.K. for guidance in successfully navigating some of the toughest, highest-value issues facing their businesses. Our global focus on strategy, combined with a reputation for responsiveness and uncompromising professionalism, delivers the facts, analysis and insights our clients need to move confidently on major strategic decisions.

Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for the excellence of its financial advice and execution. Truly global, the firm is a market leader in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The 53,163 members of Morgan Stanley in 28 countries connect people, ideas and capital to help our clients achieve their financial aspirations.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to help individuals, institutions and sovereign states achieve their financial aspirations. To achieve this, we have built leadership positions in investment banking, asset management, credit services, debt and equity underwriting, research, sales and trading and the provision of financial advice. In each business, we focus on creating custom-tailored solutions that cut across functions to help our clients discover and realize new business and financial opportunities.

Our success is measured by the satisfaction of our clients. It is also measured by the professional and personal achievements of our employees and the long-term value we create for shareholders. It rests on shared values held throughout the Firm: a common belief in the importance of integrity, excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, teamwork and a respect for individuals and cultures around the world.

RR Donnelley’s Global Capital Markets business creates, manages, produces and delivers regulatory, transaction and compliance communications required by the capital markets and financial services community. For our clients, we file more than 50,000 documents annually with the SEC and produce critical communications for compliance, business combinations, initial public offerings, high yield debt offerings, and other financial transactions. This in addition to our global service centers, translation and design services and unlimited printing capacity allows us to handle any size job. Backed by RR Donnelley's Fortune 300 global resources, we've earned a reputation as a value-added partner. That's why Fortune Magazine has named us America's Most Admired Printer five years running.

Stax, a management consulting firm with an extraordinary combination of in-depth research and decision-oriented analytics, provides private equity firms with commercial diligence and post diligence strategic work for the management teams of their portfolio companies.

Stax's operating model, unique in the industry for its flexibility and efficiency, allows us to put client needs first, choosing the right analytics, case teams, and pace of delivery to meet the variety of objectives. With all of our deal experience, we know it is most important to listen to clients' needs and ask the tough questions about how analyses will be used, so we can coach on what will and will not be useful for their decisions, and advise and execute on the best methodologies to get the job done.

Generalists by nature-to support the needs of our clients-we have deep expertise in financial services, healthcare, industrials, business services, consumer/retail, home building products and services, and rapidly understanding niche businesses for which little to no data exists. Stax clients range from mega-funds and Fortune 100 corporations to the middle market private equity firms and the management teams of their portfolio companies.

The Wharton Private Equity Partnership ("WPEP") offers to the Wharton private equity community opportunities for networking, growth, and education. With over 2000 fellow Wharton alums in nearly 30 locations worldwide, WPEP can and will bring value-added content, discourse, and events to our community. We are one of the fastest growing alumni organizations affiliated with the Wharton School, and one that will continue to grow and thrive within the community.

Silver

Smith Design is a brand design firm specializing in strategy based visual solutions for leading consumer brands. Our expertise creating and strengthening visual assets spans multiple categories, markets, and consumer targets. Numerous design awards speak to the quality of our visual approaches, yet results and increased sales are the measure of success for a brand. Favorable ROI is how we succeed, and keeps our clients coming back.

Our core asset is the combined expertise of a proven team of designers, strategic thinkers, trend trackers, consumers, observers, writers, artists and creative problem solvers. Smith Design delivers compelling visual solutions that work for the brand and consumer. With offices based in New Jersey and California, we have been providing design solutions for leading brands and companies for over 25 years.

Bronze

Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 1,200 leading financial institutions, advisory firms, and corporations. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, a unique combination of global private and public capital market data and technology that enables end-users to draw deep market insights, generate better ideas, leverage relationships, and simplify workflow. Clients can deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone solution or seamlessly integrate its components into existing business applications and portals via systems integration and custom data feeds. For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com.

Media Sponsors

Buyouts, a bi-weekly newsletter, is the premier source of news, data analysis, and interpretation of trends in the buyout industry. Every issue has reports on new funds and fund closes, live and done deals, exits, general partners, limited partners, deal makers, intermediaries and more. The website includes daily news, a searchable archive and posting of the latest issue the Friday before publication. Buyouts delivers coverage of trends in the industry as quickly as they emerge.

Through its Dow Jones Newswires unit, Dow Jones (www.djnewsletters.com) produces focused, sector-specific online databases, newsletters and industry events as well as providing (www.djnewswires.com) real-time news for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange and energy markets, and also offers news for financial firms’ Web sites. Newsletters published by Dow Jones include Private Equity Analyst, VentureWire Professional, and Daily Bankruptcy Review. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Indexes, MarketWatch, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC Universal of CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

The leading magazine for all dealmakers covering M&A, bankruptcy, private equity, venture capital, law & tax and corporate restructuring. Each issue of The Deal quickly brings you up to speed on current deals in every sector from all around the world. We cover the players - the people behind the deals - plus we bring you comprehensive perspectives and timely commentary and analysis with pages of charts and stats, as well as in-depth features throughout the magazine.

For information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities, contact:

Ashish Lal
Co-Chair for Sponsorships
Email: ashish.lal.wg07@wharton.upenn.edu