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02.10.2009

The ACG Cup Kicks off in Atlanta!
By Stuart Johnson, Barnes & Thornburg LLP




In January, the ACG Cup, ACG’s national business case study competition was initiated in Atlanta. The ACG Cup program is designed to enable our organization to forge closer relationships with leading business schools, introducing the next generation of business leaders to the ACG as the premier M&A, corporate growth and corporate development organization.
Here in Atlanta, three local business schools- Georgia Tech, The University of Georgia, and the Goizueta Business School at Emory University - joined 70 other schools throughout the country and hosted ACG Cup competitions. Each of these schools recruited student teams to engage in a real-world investment banking case study. Participating teams are asked to review a fact pattern and to make a presentation to the executives of ‘Holdco’ on Holdco’s strategic options.

The Georgia Tech competition was held on January 24. A distinguished panel of ACG member judges, together with Georgia Tech finance faculty members, reviewed student presentations and the team “Five for Fighting” (Fiorella DiPalma, Paresh Kulkarni, Aniket Mulay, Khelan Patel and Harshad Veerkar) were selected as the Georgia Tech ACG Cup winner.

The University of Georgia competition was held on January 31 at the Terry College’s Buckhead campus. A total of 7 student teams competed, and the team “Quadra Partners” (David Alexander, Waldo Bradley, Sunny Chung and Wilson Rogers) emerged as the winners of that competition.

The Goizueta Business School competition occurred on February 7, and a total of 5 Emory student teams participated (no winner has been announced as of press time…).

The winning teams from Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, and Emory will meet again on April 4 at the Emory’s Goizueta Business School, and one of those teams will be crowned the 2009 Atlanta ACG Cup winner.

Nishant Dass, a Georgia Tech Professor of Finance and judge at the Georgia Tech competition commented as follows: “thank you for organizing the competition…I certainly enjoyed sitting in the judges’ seat and most of all, I enjoyed listening to all the other judges’ “real-world” perspective on… problems. It was a very fruitful exercise…[for our students and] for me, and I will gladly advertise the next year’s event amongst my students."

More information about the national ACG Cup initiative is at http://www.acg.org/ACGCup/AboutACGCup. In 2010, the ACG Cup competition will include a national championship to be held at InterGrowth. For more information about the ACG Cup in Atlanta, or to volunteer to participate in the next round of competitions, contact Ezra Field (efield@roarkcapital.com) or Paul Kleinkauf (Paul.Kleinkauf@merrillcorp.com), Co-Chairs of the Atlanta ACG Cup Planning Committee.


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