If your organization is interested in sponsoring the 2012 Yale School of Management Private Equity Conference, please contact Jim Williamson or Thomas Melton.

CohnReznick provides private equity and venture capital firms, family offices, small business investment companies (SBICs) and other investment groups with technical skills grounded in value-added industry insight from acquisition to exit. Our services include: Transaction Services, Post-Acquisition Value Performance Assessments, Portfolio Company Compliance and Tax Planning Services, Fund Compliance Services, and Proprietary Pre-Auction Deal Flow Opportunities. Our professionals encompass a solid understanding of industry-specific financial, operational, risk, technology, and market issues. Partner-level attention ensures coordinated delivery of high-level services, quickly and efficiently, addressing your needs and those of your portfolio companies before, during, and after a transaction.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a world-class law firm whose influence spans the globe and whose lawyers have left their imprint on the landscape of modern jurisprudence. Few firms can match the breadth and depth of skill provided by our leading corporate and litigation practices. The firm is equally recognized for its capabilities in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, employee benefits and executive compensation, finance, intellectual property, personal representation, real estate and tax law. Our lawyers serve as counsel to many of the largest publicly and privately held corporations and financial institutions in the U.S. and throughout the world. We also serve numerous private equity funds and hedge funds, as well as emerging businesses and small entrepreneurs, and over the years have nurtured many through their growth into industry players. The firm receives particular accolades for its work on behalf of clients in the financial services, communications, technology, media and entertainment fields. Our multi-disciplinary Private Equity Group is focused on providing a full range of services to clients engaged in recapitalizations, acquisitions, divestitures, securities offerings, investments, buyouts, financings and other transactions. We work closely with the firm’s tax, employee benefits, finance and bankruptcy lawyers, bringing together experience-based creativity and the wide range of skills necessary to achieve our clients’ objectives.
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BackBay Communications is an independent strategic marketing and public relations firm focused on the financial services and professional services sectors. BackBay offers a unique combination of content and creativity. BackBay’s services include advertising, branding, events, marketing materials, websites, and PR. BackBay is highly regarded for its thought leadership initiatives and relationships with the major business media. With offices in Boston, London and New York, BackBay serves companies across the United States and Europe.
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Mergers & Acquisitions is the premier destination for breaking news, in-depth commentary and analysis about the burgeoning middle market. The official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG), a global organization comprised of thousands of private equity firms, corporate officials and intermediaries, Mergers & Acquisitions provides valuable insight and analysis regarding private equity, cross-border M&A and strategic acquirers, enabling readers the ability to own their industry.
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Buyouts has been the publication of choice within the private equity community for more than 23 years, supplying readers with comprehensive deal and fund news, personality profiles, expert analysis and a wealth of proprietary data. Its quarterly deal and fund lists have become the industry benchmarks, and exceptional editorial pedigree and unrivalled relationships with the market’s key players ensure the most insightful commentary and analysis.
To start your subscription or for more information, call 646-223-6787 or email rpp.americas@thomsonreuters.com.
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Since 1999, The Deal LLC has been a leader in sophisticated coverage of The Deal Economy. Through The Deal magazine and The Deal Pipeline, we provide unique and proprietary content that serves the news, information and idea generation needs of corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers, intermediaries and investors.
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DealFlow Source provides deal origination services to later stage venture capital firms, middle market private equity firms and corporate acquirers. Collectively with over $94 billion in capital under management, DealFlow Source’s clients seek to invest in or acquire established private North American companies in a wide range of industries through a variety of transaction types. DealFlow Source also owns and manages the DealFlow Source Group, LinkedIn’s premier community of over 65,000 deal professionals involved in the private equity, M&A and venture capital industries.
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Venture Capital Journal has, for more than half a century, served as the premier source of news, data, analysis and interpretation of trends in the venture capital industry. Competitors have come and gone, but VCJ continues to provide venture capital executives with the information they need to succeed. Delivered monthly, every issue has reports on new funds and fund closes, deals, exits, general partners, limited partners, deal makers, intermediaries and more. VCJ delivers coverage of trends in the industry as quickly as they emerge.

PitchBook is the leading research firm for Private Equity and Venture Capital. PitchBook offers the most comprehensive industry information available through its core product, the PitchBook Platform, as well as its daily newsletter and research reports.

mergermarket is an M&A business development tool that provides proprietary intelligence and analysis on corporate strategy six to 24 months before that strategy becomes public knowledge. With an unrivalled network of dedicated M&A journalists based in 65 locations worldwide, mergermarket is used by more than 1,600 of the world’s principal advisory firms, investment banks, law firms, private equity firms and corporates to drive origination. mergermarket's comprehensive Deals Database, League Tables and customizable Private Equity Search facility enable clients to stay ahead of the market, monitor competitors and fuel new business development from their computers and mobile devices. mergermarket is part of The Mergermarket Group, a division of the Financial Times Group, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and FT.com. The FT Group is a division of Pearson plc, the international media group. Visit www.mergermarket.com. 

ACG New York, Inc. is the premier association in New York for middle market dealmaking professionals: private capital providers (both equity and debt), M&A advisors, corporate executives, accountants, attorneys and other related service providers. The New York affiliate of the Association for Corporate Growth, ACG New York hosts more than 70 events a year in New York City, Westchester and Long Island attended annually by over 8,000 professionals.

PrivCo is the premier source for business and financial research on major privately-held companies (MPCs). In the United States alone, there are over 150,000 operating firms that each bring in over $10 million in annual revenues, yet the traditional business media focuses almost exclusively on the same 15,000 publicly traded companies. By combining the very best financial analysts, editorial quality review, market research, and our proprietary data technology, PrivCo is dedicated to producing intelligent, in-depth business and financial research on the other 90% of major corporations.