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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

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ACG Detroit Fifth Annual Cup Competition Winners

Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

From l to r: Michael Trudeau, Shane Kelly, Joseph Brannock and Jeff Dorsheimer

ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNVERSITY OF MICHIGAN WINS 5^TH ANNUAL ACG DETROIT CUP, IN COMPETITION FOR MBA STUDENTS, WALSH COLLEGE GRABS SECOND

DETROIT.___The Association for Corporate Growth Detroit Chapter, a premier non- profit business networking organization of over 300 corporate growth driven professionals, hosted its Fifth Annual ACG Detroit Cup intercollegiate competition for Masters of Business Administration (MBA) students here at the Wayne State University Campus, Feb. 11. 2012, and a team from University of Michigan Ross School of Business took the first place prize of $10,000 in scholarship funds in the field of five Southeastern Michigan Colleges and Universities. Walsh College of Troy, MI took second place honors.

Members of the winning U of M team were: Joseph Brannock, Jeffrey Dorsheimer, Shane Kelly and Michael Trudeau.

Teams of MBA students from University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business; Walsh College; Broad College of Business, Michigan State University; Wayne State University School of Business Administration, and University of Michigan Flint, participated in the ACG Detroit Cup which involved each team being presented with a real-life business case for analysis. The field was then reduced to the top teams from each school. Merger and acquisition professionals from ACG Detroit served as judges.

First prize was a $10K scholarship with second a $5K scholarship, and $1K for the remaining finalists. Sponsors of the Cup are Conway MacKenzie, Maynard’s Industries, Ernst and Young, Straith Law and Pinsent Masons.

Previous ACG Detroit Cup winners include Michigan State University, University of Detroit Mercy, and Walsh College.

This year, ACG Detroit will team with the ACG Western Michigan Chapter to host a State of Michigan ACG Cup competition on March 31, 2012 on the Michigan State University Campus.

There are 300 ACG Detroit Chapter members who are involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions. There are 56 ACG Chapters around the world representing 14,000 members. Additional information is available at www.acg.org/detroit.

About ACG

ACG’s 14,000 members include professionals from private equity firms, corporations and lenders that invest in middle-market companies, as well as from law, accounting, investment banking and other firms that provide advisory services. Founded in 1954, ACG is a global organization with 56 chapters. Learn more at www.acg.org. ACG drives middle market growth. Learn how at www.middlemarketgrowth.org.

Mingle Bells Networking and Charity Event

The 6th Annual Mingle Bells Networking and Charity Event was a huge success with over 110 people registered. The evening event raised over $3,900 for the Art of Leadership Foundation, a local charity dedicated to inspire vision and leadership in young people, giving them the skills to succeed in their lives and to be leaders in their communities.

Since 2007, ACG Detroit has raised more than $22,000 for charity organizations in Southeast Michigan through its annual Mingle Bells events.

From left to right, Jon Greenawalt, Board Member, Art of Leadership Foundation and past President of ACG Detroit; Antonia Justice, AOL Recipient and Scott Terryn, ACG Detroit Chapter President

About our Charity

The Art of Leadership Foundation’s mission is to inspire vision and leadership in young people, giving them skills to succeed in their lives and to be leaders in their communities.

Please visit http://www.artofleadership.net/ALFHome.html for additional details.

We would like to thank the following Mingle Bells Event Sponsors for their support:

Event Sponsors

ACG Detroit Member Gail Straith has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Detroit Mergers & Acquisitions

ACG Detroit Member Gail Straith has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Detroit Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year.

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Gail Haefner Straith as the “Detroit Best Lawyers Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year” for 2012. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in these surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Throughout her 26-year career, Ms. Straith has enjoyed guiding business owners and management teams through the process of buying or selling a business. Ms. Straith has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2003. Ms. Straith is a 1978 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1985 graduate of Cornell Law School. She currently serves as President of Straith Law, a firm based in Birmingham, Michigan.

Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Gail Haefner Straith on being selected as the ‘Detroit Best Lawyers Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”

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From left to right, Jon Greenawalt, Board Member, Art of Leadership Foundation and past President of ACG Detroit; Antonia Justice, AOL Recipient and Scott Terryn, ACG Detroit Chapter President

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