8:00am - 8:45am
Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am
Opening Remarks
9:00am - 9:30am
Mark Copman
Staff Vice President, Corporate Development and Mergers and Acquisitions
3M
Session Description:
Mark Copman joined 3M Company in 2003 and is currently the Vice President for Corporate Development and Mergers and Acquisitions. Since Mark has joined, 3M has done over 30 acquisitions. Mark will be sharing thoughts around how 3M does its benchmarking on completed deals. At the aggregate level, are the deals performing as expected? Better? Worse? He will also discuss the tools and processes he has put in place to get better transparency around deal performance and best practices in integration.
*This session is closed to the press
9:35am - 10:15am
Panel Discussion
Presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers
"Best Practices in Divestitures"
Moderator:
Mark Ross
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Panelists:
Hyman Buchwald
Director, Corporate Development
ITT
Karin Flanagan
Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jagtar Narula
Director
Xerox
10:20am - 11:00am
Panel Discussion
“Best Practices in M&A”
Session Description:
This discussion convenes several senior M&A professionals that are actively involved in all aspects of their M&A programs. Panelists will offer points of view on sourcing transactions, considerations in how they are structuring their transactions, as well as benchmarking the success of transactions post close.
Moderator:
I. Berl Nadler
Senior Partner, Member of Management Committee
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Panelists:
Terence Bentley
Senior Director, Corporate Development
Teleflex
Michael I. Oberlander
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Brown Shoe Company, Inc.
Andrew Stern
Director of Corporate Development
F5 Networks
Tom Waleski
Sr. Director of M&A and Business Development
The Hershey Company
D. Randall Winn
Managing Director
Capital IQ
*This session is closed to the press
11:00am - 11:20am
Coffee Break
11:20am - 12:00pm
Panel Discussion
“A Discussion on the Current Deal Environment”
Moderator:
James P. Gerkis, Esq.
Partner
Proskauer Rose
Panelists:
David W. Glenn
Managing Director & Partner
Lightyear Capital LLC
Michael B. Kessler
Managing Director
Veronis Suhler Stevenson
Linda Maxwell
Chief Strategist
Jefferies Quarterdeck
Alexander S. Panos
Managing Director
TSG Consumer Partners
12:05 - 12:45pm
Panel Discussion
"Techniques for Structuring M&A Transactions in the Current Market"
Session Description:
The discussion will touch on a variety of factors affecting the structuring of transactions in today’s marketplace. Topics to be covered include but may not be limited to:
- Financing the deal: What capital providers look for when doing a deal
- Negotiating the deal structure and price based on current market conditions
- Pitfalls to avoid when negotiating the deal
- Financial conditions/reverse breakup fees/specific performance in the current marketplace
- SPACs & BDCs
- Tender offers, top-ups
Moderator:
Francesco Guerrera
US Business Editor
Financial Times
Panelists:
Randy Hicks
Managing Director
KPS Capital Partners, LP
Jeffrey D. Marell
Partner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Steven Wayne
Managing Director
Oak Hill Advisors, L.P.
12:45pm - 1:45pm
Lunch Sponsored by Capital IQ
1:45pm - 2:15pm
Jason L. Rapp
SVP, Mergers and Acquisitions
IAC
*This session is closed to the press.
2:20pm - 3:00pm
Panel Discussion
“Market Trends in M&A”
Moderator:
James Politi
Deals Reporter
Financial Times
Panelists:
Michael Kane
President & CEO
Kane & Company Inc.
Edward W. Kelley
Chairman & CEO
Edward W Kelley & Partners
Dr. J. Neely
Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton
Morton A. Pierce
Partner
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
3:05pm - 3:35pm
Aris Chicles
VP, Strategy & Corporate Development
ITT Corporation
Session Description:
Aris was appointed VP, Director Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development for ITT Industries in June 2006. Prior to Aris, ITT did not have a dedicated role for M&A. In his comments, Aris will discuss his experience in building a new M&A program from the ground up. He will discuss best practices around developing a pipeline, working internally with complementary areas of executive leadership, as well as optimizing processes around due diligence. He may also discuss “lessons learned” from some recent transactions, specifically the experience on deals in which private equity and hedge funds where actively involved in the negotiations.
3:35pm - 4:05pm
Coffee Break
4:05pm - 4:35pm
David Senior
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
AmerisourceBergen
*This session is closed to the press
4:40pm - 5:10pm
Kevin Mayer
EVP, Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Technology
The Walt Disney Company
*This session is closed to the press
5:10pm - 5:15pm
Closing Remarks
5:15pm - 6:15pm
Cocktail Reception
*Please note agendas are subject to change
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