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    Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, was ambivalent about his trade. The best rainmakers were capable men, he once said according to The Economist, but deal making also attracted “hustlers and swaggering mediocrities”. Whereas takeovers made the business world more dynamic, they also led to “pain, dislocations and blunders”. Download our Information Package Whether deal making brings more positives than negatives is once again an important question, because it is back with a vengeance: U.S. M&A roared back to life and is up 50% this year. Deal activity is now running at its highest levels on record at estimated trillion and a half for 2014, the first time that it would cross that level for a full year. The record run has been driven by strong demand from both domestic and foreign buyers that include Chinese investors. The value of announced U.S. domestic M&A volume, where both the buyer and seller are based locally, is up 33%. Meanwhile, the value of announced deals in which a foreign firm is buying a local one has multiplied three times from last year’s total. In fact, four of the ten biggest deals in the U.S. involve foreign buyers. Goldman Sachs has cemented its position as the top Wall Street bank for mergers and acquisitions in one of the busiest years in the business, with recent roles on two big acquisitions worth a combined $100 billion: Actavis’s $66 billion agreement to buy Allergan and Halliburton’s $34.6 billion planned purchase of Baker Hughes. On the other end of the spectrum, boutique advisory firms have also benefited seeing their share of U.S. M&A fees increased to 16%, up from just 8% in 2008. The deal making may not slow down soon and could last at least another six to 12 months, says Joseph Perella, Chairman of investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners. How could CEOs and boards get prepared to ride the M&A wave? How can they become predators rather than prey? Golden Networking’s Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City, Will Wall Street’s Mega-deal Boom Keep Breaking Trillion-dollar Records in 2015?, will bring the answers for the industry’s most pressing questions. Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City is the first (and only) forum top executives, bankers, lawyers and investors need to attend to start 2015 off with a bang. Savvy deal makers, renowned investors and inquisitive experts will bring their latest thinking to hundreds of senior business focused on leveraging low-interest rates in America and Europe and their immense piles of cash on hand while scoring strategic touchdowns that will build decades-long advantages. Topics that Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 will discuss include: Is the latest resurgence of deal making activity the real thing? New rules for corporate tax inversions and the impact on pending deals The role of private equity and the activist hedge fund in M&A Pharma’s Gordian knot: How to fill in gaps in their product offerings Telecom M&A: More of a baby’s head on a monkey’s body? Will megatrends driving tech M&A defy uncertainty about the global economy? Is today’s M&A boom going to end badly?

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    Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, was ambivalent about his trade. The best rainmakers were capable men, he once said according to The Economist, but deal making also attracted “hustlers and swaggering mediocrities”. Whereas takeovers made the business world more dynamic, they also led to “pain, dislocations and blunders”. Download our Information Package Whether deal making brings more positives than negatives is once again an important question, because it is back with a vengeance: U.S. M&A roared back to life and is up 50% this year. Deal activity is now running at its highest levels on record at estimated trillion and a half for 2014, the first time that it would cross that level for a full year. The record run has been driven by strong demand from both domestic and foreign buyers that include Chinese investors. The value of announced U.S. domestic M&A volume, where both the buyer and seller are based locally, is up 33%. Meanwhile, the value of announced deals in which a foreign firm is buying a local one has multiplied three times from last year’s total. In fact, four of the ten biggest deals in the U.S. involve foreign buyers. Goldman Sachs has cemented its position as the top Wall Street bank for mergers and acquisitions in one of the busiest years in the business, with recent roles on two big acquisitions worth a combined $100 billion: Actavis’s $66 billion agreement to buy Allergan and Halliburton’s $34.6 billion planned purchase of Baker Hughes. On the other end of the spectrum, boutique advisory firms have also benefited seeing their share of U.S. M&A fees increased to 16%, up from just 8% in 2008. The deal making may not slow down soon and could last at least another six to 12 months, says Joseph Perella, Chairman of investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners. How could CEOs and boards get prepared to ride the M&A wave? How can they become predators rather than prey? Golden Networking’s Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City, Will Wall Street’s Mega-deal Boom Keep Breaking Trillion-dollar Records in 2015?, will bring the answers for the industry’s most pressing questions. Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City is the first (and only) forum top executives, bankers, lawyers and investors need to attend to start 2015 off with a bang. Savvy deal makers, renowned investors and inquisitive experts will bring their latest thinking to hundreds of senior business focused on leveraging low-interest rates in America and Europe and their immense piles of cash on hand while scoring strategic touchdowns that will build decades-long advantages. Topics that Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 will discuss include: Is the latest resurgence of deal making activity the real thing? New rules for corporate tax inversions and the impact on pending deals The role of private equity and the activist hedge fund in M&A Pharma’s Gordian knot: How to fill in gaps in their product offerings Telecom M&A: More of a baby’s head on a monkey’s body? Will megatrends driving tech M&A defy uncertainty about the global economy? Is today’s M&A boom going to end badly?

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    Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, was ambivalent about his trade. The best rainmakers were capable men, he once said according to The Economist, but deal making also attracted “hustlers and swaggering mediocrities”. Whereas takeovers made the business world more dynamic, they also led to “pain, dislocations and blunders”. Download our Information Package Whether deal making brings more positives than negatives is once again an important question, because it is back with a vengeance: U.S. M&A roared back to life and is up 50% this year. Deal activity is now running at its highest levels on record at estimated trillion and a half for 2014, the first time that it would cross that level for a full year. The record run has been driven by strong demand from both domestic and foreign buyers that include Chinese investors. The value of announced U.S. domestic M&A volume, where both the buyer and seller are based locally, is up 33%. Meanwhile, the value of announced deals in which a foreign firm is buying a local one has multiplied three times from last year’s total. In fact, four of the ten biggest deals in the U.S. involve foreign buyers. Goldman Sachs has cemented its position as the top Wall Street bank for mergers and acquisitions in one of the busiest years in the business, with recent roles on two big acquisitions worth a combined $100 billion: Actavis’s $66 billion agreement to buy Allergan and Halliburton’s $34.6 billion planned purchase of Baker Hughes. On the other end of the spectrum, boutique advisory firms have also benefited seeing their share of U.S. M&A fees increased to 16%, up from just 8% in 2008. The deal making may not slow down soon and could last at least another six to 12 months, says Joseph Perella, Chairman of investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners. How could CEOs and boards get prepared to ride the M&A wave? How can they become predators rather than prey? Golden Networking’s Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City, Will Wall Street’s Mega-deal Boom Keep Breaking Trillion-dollar Records in 2015?, will bring the answers for the industry’s most pressing questions. Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City is the first (and only) forum top executives, bankers, lawyers and investors need to attend to start 2015 off with a bang. Savvy deal makers, renowned investors and inquisitive experts will bring their latest thinking to hundreds of senior business focused on leveraging low-interest rates in America and Europe and their immense piles of cash on hand while scoring strategic touchdowns that will build decades-long advantages. Topics that Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 will discuss include: Is the latest resurgence of deal making activity the real thing? New rules for corporate tax inversions and the impact on pending deals The role of private equity and the activist hedge fund in M&A Pharma’s Gordian knot: How to fill in gaps in their product offerings Telecom M&A: More of a baby’s head on a monkey’s body? Will megatrends driving tech M&A defy uncertainty about the global economy? Is today’s M&A boom going to end badly?

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    Information Package

    Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015


    (MAConference 2015)

    Hosted By Golden Networking


    New York City
    January 16, 2015
    http://MergersandAcquisitionsConference.com
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/369413599895188
    Twitter Hashtag: #MAConference

    Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015


    New York City, where

    Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer
    the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and
    acquisitions business into a high art, was ambivalent about his trade. The
    best rainmakers were capable men, he once said according to The
    Economist, but deal making also attracted hustlers and swaggering
    mediocrities. Whereas takeovers made the business world more dynamic,
    they also led to pain, dislocations and blunders.
    Whether deal making brings more positives than negatives is
    once again an important question, because it is back with a
    vengeance: U.S. M&A roared back to life and is up 50% this
    year. Deal activity is now running at its highest levels on record
    at estimated trillion and a half for 2014, the first time that it
    would cross that level for a full year.

    savvy deal makers, renowned investors and


    inquisitive experts will bring their latest

    The record run has been driven by strong demand from both domestic and
    foreign buyers that include Chinese investors. The value of announced U.S.
    domestic M&A volume, where both the buyer and seller are based locally, is
    up 33%. Meanwhile, the value of announced deals in which a foreign firm is
    buying a local one has multiplied three times from last years total. In fact,
    four of the ten biggest deals in the U.S. involve foreign buyers.
    Goldman Sachs has cemented its position as the top Wall
    Street bank for mergers and acquisitions in one of the
    busiest years in the business, with recent roles on two big
    acquisitions worth a combined $100 billion: Actaviss $66
    billion agreement to buy Allergan and Halliburtons $34.6
    billion planned purchase of Baker Hughes. On the other
    end of the spectrum, boutique advisory firms have also
    benefited seeing their share of U.S. M&A fees increased
    to 16%, up from just 8% in 2008.

    insights for CEOs dead-set on building


    decades-long advantages

    The deal making may not slow down soon and could last at least another six to 12
    months, says Joseph Perella, Chairman of investment bank Perella Weinberg
    Partners. How could CEOs and boards get prepared to ride the M&A wave? How
    can they become predators rather than prey? Golden Networkings Mergers and
    Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City, Will Wall Streets Mega-deal Boom
    Keep Breaking Trillion-dollar Records in 2015?, will bring the answers for the
    industrys most pressing questions.
    Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015 New York City is the first (and only)
    forum top executives, bankers, lawyers and investors need to attend to start 2015
    off with a bang. Savvy deal makers, renowned investors and inquisitive experts
    will bring their latest thinking to hundreds of senior business focused on
    leveraging low-interest rates in America and Europe and their immense piles of
    cash on hand while scoring strategic touchdowns that will build decades-long
    advantages.

    Insight, Relevant and Timely Topics at


    Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015

    Is the latest resurgence of deal making activity


    the real thing?
    New rules for corporate tax inversions and the
    impact on pending deals
    The role of private equity and the activist hedge
    fund in M&A
    Pharmas Gordian knot: How to fill in gaps in
    their product offerings

    Telecom M&A: More of a babys head on a


    monkeys body?
    Will megatrends driving tech M&A defy
    uncertainty about the global economy?
    Is todays M&A boom going to end badly?

    Is the latest resurgence of deal making


    activity the real thing?

    The deal making explosion has not been confined to just


    one region or industry. Activity across the three biggest
    markets, the US, Europe and Asia, has been strong
    throughout the year. Firms across these markets have
    started to move away from the risk aversion and organic
    expansion embraced in the aftermath of the global
    financial crisis. The belief that significant levels of
    growth can be more easily purchased than built is
    returning to the markets. Does this renewed confidence
    have strong pillars that will support growth? What
    differences exist among different markets? Which
    industries are set to continue carrying the M&A torch?

    New rules for corporate tax inversions and the


    impact on pending deals

    After a flurry of so-called inversions, in which American


    companies bought overseas competitors and moved
    their headquarters abroad to reduce their tax bills, the
    U.S. Treasury in September announced rules targeting
    the transactions that reduce the economic benefits of
    inversions after the fact, and in some cases, stop them
    altogether. How will these new rules impact ongoing
    deals? Are we witnessing the end of hopscotch loans
    that allow corporations to avoid dividend taxes when
    tapping tax-deferred foreign profits? What about the
    usage of decontrolling strategies that restructure
    foreign units so they are no longer U.S.-controlled?

    The role of private equity and the activist


    hedge fund in M&A

    Five years after the end of the financial crisis,


    it appears that corporations are finally willing
    to make big bets again. CEOs seem no
    longer worried about a double-dip recession
    or another Eurozone crisis. Instead, they are
    betting on growth in the years ahead,
    displacing private equity from the
    acquisitions machines steering wheel and
    partnering with activist hedge funds such as
    those run by Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn. Will
    the advantages of tax inversions continue
    out-muscling private equity firms? Will
    activist funds, more powerful than ever in
    America, stop unreasonable deals from
    going forward?

    Pharmas Gordian knot: How to fill in gaps in


    their product offerings

    Healthcare has been the busiest sector in U.S.


    M&A in 2014. Health-care companies with deep
    pockets and shallow product pipelines are set for
    a busy time in the acquisitions front, with
    biotechnology firms among the most prominent
    targets even as they trade at record highs. Drug
    makers like Pfizer, Actavis, Merck and BristolMyers Squibb are dealing with patent expirations
    on top medicines and cutting researchers as they
    refocus their product development strategies. Will
    M&A solve pharmas hunt for new products to fill
    in gaps in their offerings? Will cost-cutting
    synergies run their course anytime soon? Which
    combinations still make sense after a great run in
    2014?

    Telecom M&A: More of a babys head on a


    monkeys body?

    Telecommunications firms are seeking to bolster their


    footprints across the country and gain more negotiating
    power with content providers. Comcasts agreement to
    buy Time Warner Cable was followed by AT&Ts
    agreement to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion. Even media
    giants like 21st Century Fox, run by Rupert Murdoch,
    looked to deal making, in part to give them more clout to
    use against distributors. Will big deals really beget big
    deals? Will the number of players left without a dance
    partner catch M&A fever? Will we see more babys
    heads on monkeys bodies?

    Will megatrends driving tech M&A defy


    uncertainty about the global economy?

    Ernst & Young says there are five megatrends driving


    tech M&A: smart mobility, cloud computing, social
    networking, big data analytics and accelerated
    technology adaptation. Historically, tech M&A was
    driven by major vendors like Hewlett-Packard, Oracle
    and IBM trying to expand their reach by acquiring
    companies to consolidate and build on established tech
    product families. Now its disruptive technology thats in
    the crosshairs, as consolidation involves corporations
    needing to catch up in a way that they are not able to do
    fast enough organically. Will uncertainty about the
    economy stop tech leaders in their tracks? How strong
    is the technology M&A outlook for 2015? Are technology
    execs confident in their own corporate earnings?

    Is todays M&A boom going to end badly?

    Long experiences of booms and slumps in M&A


    have made investors wary. Veteran fund managers
    and academics argue that deals satisfy executives
    vanity and enrich their bankers and lawyers, but
    destroy value for shareholders. Reflecting this
    worry, when a firm announces an acquisition its
    shares have tended to fall. However, since 2012
    acquirers share prices have generally been stable
    or have risen, according to McKinsey. Might this
    time be different? Might the benefits of M&A be
    more evenly spread between targets and acquirers
    this time round? Will institutional investors act as a
    brake on corporate chiefs empire-building dreams?
    Will tighter regulation for too-big-to-fail bulgebracket banks restrain financing of big M&A deals?

    Executives Who Should Attend (I)

    Academics
    Accounting Professionals
    Activist Investors
    Asset Managers
    Boards of Directors
    Chairmen of the Board
    Chief Compliance Officers
    Chief Executive Officers
    Chief Financial Officers
    Chief Operations Officers
    Corporate Lawyers
    Corporate Strategists
    Deal Makers

    Deans of Business Schools


    Endowment Managers
    Entrepreneurs
    Exchange Officials
    Financial Analysts
    Financial Consultants
    Financiers
    Fund of Funds Managers
    General Partners
    Heads of Regulatory Affairs
    Heads of Research
    Heads of Risk Management
    Hedge Fund Managers
    14

    Executives Who Should Attend (II)

    Institutional Investors
    Investment Bankers
    Investment Managers
    IPO Managers
    LBO Specialists
    Limited Partners
    M&A Advisors
    M&A Lawyers
    Management Consultants
    Managing Directors
    Managing Partners
    Pension Funds
    Portfolio Managers

    Presidents
    Private Equity Managers
    Rainmakers
    Rating Agencies
    Regulators
    Risk Analysts
    Risk Managers
    Securities Specialists
    Tax Advisors
    Underwriters
    Valuation Specialists
    Venture Capitalists
    Vice Chairmen
    15

    Partial List of Sponsors

    Partial List of Media Partners

    17

    Golden Networking

    Golden Networking is the premier networking community for


    business, technology and financial services executives,
    entrepreneurs and professionals; Golden Networkings forum and
    receptions have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New
    York Times, Los Angeles Times, Reuters and many other media.
    For more information about Golden Networking and past Forums
    and Receptions, please:

    Visit: http://www.GoldenNetworking.com
    Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2633219
    Follow on Twitter: @GNetworking
    Join our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/GoldenNetworking

    Who Attends our Business Receptions


    and Forums?

    Business, technology and financial services executives,


    professionals and entrepreneurs, interested in staying
    two steps ahead of their competition
    Breakdown of attendees by job title:
    o 34% Vice President Level
    o 28% C-Level
    o 22% Director - Managing Director Level
    o 15% Associate - Analyst - Intern Level

    Golden Networking's Receptions and


    Forums Representation (I)

    1st global
    Abrams Associates
    Acceptance Capital
    ACTIV Financial
    Actualize Consulting
    Advanced Fund Administration
    AITP LLC
    Alaris Trading Partners
    Algo Engineering
    Alyar Global
    Andrew Garrett
    Angle Group
    ApeironPrime
    Atlantic Advisory

    Avatar Securities LLC


    Babson Capital Management
    Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    Barclays Capital
    Basel Asset Management
    BATS Global Markets
    BlackRock
    Blackstar Group, LLC
    Bloomberg LP
    Blue Star Jets LLC
    broadstreettrading
    BTIG
    Business Logic, Inc.
    Cantor Fitzgerald

    Capital IQ
    CapitalSource
    Chatsworth Securities LLC
    Chimera Securities
    Christopher Street Capital
    Citi
    Credit Suisse
    Crossix Solutions
    CV Inc
    Deschutes Capital
    Deutsche Asset Management
    Differential Research LLC
    Direct Edge
    E and J securities NYSE

    Golden Networking's Receptions and


    Forums Representation (II)

    EchoTrade
    Elk River Trading
    Empire Capital Partners
    Entrenet Ltd LLC
    Equinix
    ETR corp.
    Five Prime Advisors
    Freeport Advisors
    GARP
    GDR Privee
    Gerson Lehrman Group
    GilGantas LLC
    GLC Trading Corp
    Goldman Sachs

    GotShops247
    Grace Financial Group
    Gravitas Technology
    GRCBUS, Inc.
    Gregoro LLC
    Guggenheim Securities
    Harma Risk Management LLC
    Hite Capital
    HKB
    HSBC Bank PLC
    HT Private Travel
    Hudsonview Partners
    Humanscale
    HyPerform Group

    iEpsilon
    Imaginatrix
    Independent
    Industrial Renaissance Inc.
    InfoHedge Technologies LLC
    ING Clarion
    Intrade LLLC
    IO-Works Inc.
    Jesup Lamont
    JPMorgan Chase
    KC Ward Financial
    Koshdan Capital
    LEK Securities Corp
    Lenox Advisors

    Golden Networking's Receptions and


    Forums Representation (III)

    Level3
    Lightspeed Financial
    Lightyear Capital
    Lime Brokerage LLC
    Liquidnet
    LocateStock.com
    Lyxor Asset Management
    Madison Trading
    Markit
    Meridian Equity Partners
    Merrill Lynch
    MetLife
    MF Global Investment
    Mill Pond Capital

    Millennium Partners
    Morgan Stanley
    MSF Capital Adsvisors
    Natixis
    Newedge
    Nomura Research
    NY Fed
    Omega
    OneMarketData
    Optimum Lightpath
    Options IT LLC
    Orbis
    Paramount
    PCP Financial Partners

    PEI Funds
    Penn Mutual
    Penson GHCO
    Pershing LLC
    PK Trading, LLC
    Platinum Partners
    Prestige Financial
    ProCapital
    Protrade Securities
    Prudential Securities
    Quantix
    Real Time Partners LLC.
    Reuters
    RM Capital

    Golden Networking's Receptions and


    Forums Representation (IV)

    SAP
    Scher Financial Group
    Schonfeld Securities
    SecondMarket
    Serlen Corp
    Silver Leaf Partners
    Sirenum Capital LLC
    SLCE Architects
    SMB Capital
    Solomon Daniels
    SR Labs
    SRZ
    Standard & Poor's
    Stepwise Capital

    Strategies For Wealth


    Summa Capital Corp.
    Summit Financial Holdings
    Sunrise Securities Corp
    Synchroneon, Inc.
    Systematic Alpha Management
    Systematic Strategies LLC
    The Carlyle Group
    Third Wave Global Investors
    Three River Capital
    Trading Cross Connects
    TSIX Trading
    Two Sigma Investments
    UBS

    UHY Advisors, Inc


    Unilogic, Inc
    Volant Trading
    Wall Street Legal Consulting
    Washington Capital
    West Chester Strategic
    Westbrook Capital, LLC
    WJ. Dowd Inc.
    Wombat Capital
    WQL Consulting
    WTS Proprietary Trading Group
    X-Pen
    YYC Capital Management
    Zone Equity Group LLC

    Additional Information

    For more information, please contact:


    Julia Petrova
    Golden Networking
    1-414-FORUMS0
    jpetrova@goldennetworking.com

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