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Sponsors
The Yale School of Management Private Equity Club would like to thank the
sponsors of the 2004 conference for their generous support.
Platinum Sponsors
CSFB Private Equity, the global private equity arm of CSFB, is one of the
largest managers of alternative assets in the world, with more than $29 billion
in committed capital. CSFB Private Equity is comprised of investment funds that
focus on domestic and international leverage buyouts, structured equity
investments, mezzanine investments, real estate investments, venture capital
and growth capital investments, and investments in other private equity funds.
www.csfb.com
Dechert is an international law firm with more than 700 lawyers in 17 offices.
The firm assists private equity clients with all their transactional needs,
ranging from fund formation to multi-billion dollar acquisitions and
financings. The firm has more than 100 transactional lawyers, and offices in
New York, Philadelphia, London, Munich, Paris, Frankfurt, Boston, Newport
Beach, Washington, Brussels, and Princeton. Dechert forms funds and raises
capital for private equity sponsors, helps private equity funds make
investments, and represents the portfolio companies of private equity clients
in a variety of transactions. Dechert lawyers represent funds in early-,
middle-, and late-stage venture capital financings and growth capital
investments, as well as leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of public and
private companies.
www.dechert.com
Pillsbury Winthrop is an international law firm with over 750 lawyers in 16
offices located in the United States, London, Australia, and Asia. The firm
organizes its practice around its clients, emphasizing interdisciplinary teams
of lawyers who know their clients and their industries. Pillsbury Winthrop has
four core areas of focus - Capital Markets & Finance, Global Energy,
Litigation and Technology.
www.pillsburywinthrop.com
Day, Berry & Howard has significant experience in transactions involving a wide
variety of private equity funds spanning decades. The firm has represented
persons forming Venture Capital Funds, Leveraged Buyout (LBO) Funds and many
different kinds of Hedge Funds. The firm has also represented funds themselves
in connection with their strategic investment transactions. The firm's Private
Equity Fund practice is closely coordinated with its Emerging Companies,
Mergers & Acquisition, Securities Law and Investment Advisor practices.
www.dbh.com
Finn Dixon & Herling's business practice includes mergers and acquisitions,
corporate finance and restructurings, private equity, venture capital
financing, securities transactions and regulation, general representation of
corporations, investment management, banking and lending, public finance and
federal and state taxation of business and commercial transactions. It has
offices in Stamford and New Haven, Connecticut.
www.fdh.com
Gold Sponsors
Standard & Poor’s Structured Finance Ratings offers globally a range of rating services, which help investors, bankers, issuers and other constituents benchmark the credit quality of securitized assets. Our coverage includes asset-backed, mortgage-backed, and commercial mortgage-backed securities, in addition to collateralized debt obligations, real estate companies, REITS and homebuilders. We also provide servicer evaluations, assessments of collateral managers and real estate equity managers, tools to track and analyze commercial and residential mortgage risk, as well as deliver through the web, extensive on-going asset performance and collateral information.
Standard & Poor’s unmatched understanding in all structured finance markets, our absolute commitment to quality service and our long-standing reputation for objectivity, openness, integrity, and credibility has made us a forward thinking leader worldwide.
www.standardandpoors.com
Connecticut Innovations (CI) was created in 1989 to grow Connecticut's
entrepreneurial, technology economy by making venture and other investments. CI
makes equity investments in emerging Connecticut technology companies, provides
essential, non-financial support to entrepreneurs, and conducts initiatives
that address specific needs of Connecticut's technology sector.
Since 1995, CI has become the state's leading investor in high technology,
investing more than $133 million in Connecticut companies. CI was funded
originally by state bonding. But, since 1995, CI has financed its equity
investments solely through its own investment returns-not taxpayer dollars.
Successful investing has also enabled CI to fund initiatives essential to
Connecticut's technology leadership. These include the Connecticut Innovations
Technology Scholar Program, the Yankee Ingenuity Technology Competition and
Connecticut's BioBus.
www.ctinnovations.com
Winchester Capital Technology Partners
Winchester Capital Technology Partners is an international financial services group specializing in private equity investments, disposals and international mergers and acquisitions. We are an independent financial services group not affiliated with or controlled by any major bank or brokerage house. We provide strategic advice and offer a team of experienced transatlantic professionals who serve our Clients in North America and Europe. We have extensive experience in the financing, merger, acquisition and sale of international companies, including industrial, consumer and technology related businesses. We engineer successful exits for Clients in healthcare, biotechnology, medical devices, defense, avionics and electronics. Since inception, we have advised on transactions in which sale values in excess of $1bn have been achieved.
www.winchestercapital.com
Silver Sponsors
Landmark is a private equity and real estate investment company specializing in
secondary funds. Formed in 1989, the firm has one of the longest track records
in the industry and is a leading source of liquidity to owners of interests in
venture, mezzanine, buyout, and real estate limited partnerships.
Landmark has formed 17 funds focused on venture capital, buyout, mezzanine, and
real estate partnerships over the last 13 years. These funds have been
capitalized at more than $4 billion, which has been deployed across more than
600 partnerships that comprise over 6,000 underlying company and property
investments.
As a secondary specialist in private equity and real estate, Landmark enables
investors to sell their interests prior to maturity by providing the capital
and experience to execute such sales. Today, 90% of Landmark's total capital is
committed to secondary products. The remaining capital is committed to
co-investment, fund-of-funds, and growth capital programs.
www.landmarkpartners.com
Media Sponsors
www.institutionalinvestor.com
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www.targamedia.com
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http://www.privateequityinternational.com
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