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Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015

(MAConference 2015)

Hosted By Golden Networking

New York City

January 16, 2015

http://MergersandAcquisitionsConference.com

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Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015

New York City, where…

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.

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”.

…savvy deal makers, renowned investors and

inquisitive experts will bring their latest…

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 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.

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 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.

…insights for CEOs dead-set on building

decades-long advantages

• 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?

Insight, Relevant and Timely Topics at

Mergers and Acquisitions Conference 2015

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 machine’s 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?

Pharma’s 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 Bristol-

Myers Squibb are dealing with patent expirations

on top medicines and cutting researchers as they

refocus their product development strategies. Will

M&A solve pharma’s 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 baby’s head on a

monkey’s body?

Telecommunications firms are seeking to bolster their

footprints across the country and gain more negotiating

power with content providers. Comcast’s agreement to

buy Time Warner Cable was followed by AT&T’s

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 baby’s

heads on monkey’s 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 it’s disruptive technology that’s 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 today’s 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 bulge-

bracket banks restrain financing of big M&A deals?

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Academics Deans of Business Schools

Accounting Professionals Endowment Managers

Activist Investors Entrepreneurs

Asset Managers Exchange Officials

Boards of Directors Financial Analysts

Chairmen of the Board Financial Consultants

Chief Compliance Officers Financiers

Chief Executive Officers Fund of Funds Managers

Chief Financial Officers General Partners

Chief Operations Officers Heads of Regulatory Affairs

Corporate Lawyers Heads of Research

Corporate Strategists Heads of Risk Management

Deal Makers Hedge Fund Managers

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Executives Who Should Attend (II)

Institutional Investors Presidents

Investment Bankers Private Equity Managers

Investment Managers Rainmakers

IPO Managers Rating Agencies

LBO Specialists Regulators

Limited Partners Risk Analysts

M&A Advisors Risk Managers

M&A Lawyers Securities Specialists

Management Consultants Tax Advisors

Managing Directors Underwriters

Managing Partners Valuation Specialists

Pension Funds Venture Capitalists

Portfolio Managers Vice Chairmen

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