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2012 ACG CUP COMPETITION - ACG NEW YORK

ACG New York is proud to announce its participation again in the ACG CUP – a competition among the best and brightest teams from the metro area MBA programs. This competition was launched in 2006 by ACG Philadelphia and Los Angeles chapters and is the fourth year for the ACG NY Chapter.

The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBAprograms across the country real world experience and invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity. Each case study (provided by Houlihan Lokey) provides students with a unique opportunity to present valuation, capital markets and M&A strategic advice to a panel of seasoned M&A professionals from within the ACG community. The competition is carried out through a series of intra-school competitions during the month of February. The interschool regional Round II competition takes place on April 3, 2012. Regional winners are awarded the prestigious ACG Cup title and cash awards.

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS - ROUND I:

Baruch - March 2, 2012	Hofstra - February 29, 2012
Cornell - TBD	NYU – TBD
Fordham - February 17, 2012 - 5:00pm	Pace –February 24, 2012
	St. John's - TBD

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Winners of the 2011 ACG CUP Competition

CONGRATULATIONS TO
BARUCH COLLEGE
WINNER OF THE
ACG CUP® NEW YORK 2011COMPETITION

TEAM MEMBERS: Shmuel Lieberman, Aditya Bhatt, Ksenia O'Neill, Erik Andersen

The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading

MBAprograms across the country real world experience and invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity. Each case study (provided by Houlihan Lokey) provides students with a unique opportunity to present valuation, capital markets and M&A strategic advice to a panel of seasoned M&A professionals from within the ACG community. The competition is carried out through a series of intra-school competitions during the month of February. Regional winners are awarded the prestigious ACG Cup title and cash awards.

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2011 Winning Teams - Round I

You're Invited to the

Final Round of the ACG Cup Competition

Featuring: NYU Professor, Charles J. Murphy, Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business
at New York University
and Networking Reception
Student Team Members, Judges and ACG NY Members are Complimentary

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
New York University
Henry Kaufman Management Center
44 W. 4th Street

5:30:pm - 7:30pm

Click here to attend the Speaker Presentation and
Cocktail Reception from 5:30pm to 7:30pm

2011 CUP COMPETITION - ACG NEW YORK

ACG New York is proud to announce its participation again in the ACG CUP – a competition among the best and brightest teams from the metro area MBA programs (Baruch, Cornell, Fordham, Hofstra, NYU (Stern), Pace and St. Johns). This competition is the third year for the ACG NY Chapter.

ABOUT ACG CUP

The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA

programs across the country real world experience and invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity. Each case study (provided by Houlihan Lokey) provides students with a unique opportunity to present valuation, capital markets and M&A strategic advice to a panel of seasoned M&A professionals from within the ACG community. The competition is carried out through a series of intra-school competitions during the month of February.The interschool regional Round II competition takes place on April 5, 2011. Regional winners are awarded the prestigious ACG Cup title and cash awards.

SCHEDULE OF ROUND I

Baruch - February 25, 2011	Hofstra - February 28, 2011
Cornell - February 23, 2011	NYU – February 16, 2011
Fordham - February 18, 2011	Pace – February 23, 2011
	St. John's - February 28, 2011

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Click here for more information.

2010 CUP Competition - ACG New York

ACG New York 2010 CUP Competetion

Congratulations to the Winning Team
NYU, Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Click here to read the press release...
1st Place Team Members:
Christopher Cramer

Denis Cranstoun

Justin Sean Kenlon

Cory Hebenstreit

2nd Place - Baruch University:

Dave Sedelnick
Oytun Sepin
Yuri Prokhorov

3rd Place - Cornell University:

Dolph Warburton

Aloka Singh

Tyler Lewis

Gaurav Saluja

The ACG Cup is a New York-based case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA programs in the region invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory, and private equity.

Round 1 – Completed
Finals – April 22, 2010 (One team from each school)

Round II - April 22, 2010- offices of Legg Mason Investment Counsel, New York Times Building, 620 Eighth Avenue -49th Floor

Presenting Teams:
2:30pm Hofstra
3:00pm Pace
3:30pm Cornell
4:00pm NYU
4:30pm Baruch
5:00pm Fordham

Winning Team will be announced at the cocktail reception following the competition

Sponsorship: The ACG Cup is sponsored by the New York chapters of the Association for Corporate Growth ("ACG", www.acg.org). ACG is the premier global association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions for mid to large companies. Click here for information on sponsorship.

Case Study: Finance / Investment Banking / Private Equity case study prepared by Houlihan Lokey with contributions from other ACG finance professionals. Houlihan Lokey is one of the nation’s leading middle market investment banks. The Case study will be distributed one week before the competition.

Teams: Teams consist of three to five MBA students each. Each school can have as many teams as needed to accommodate the number of participants; however the number of teams may be limited depending on demand and facility limitations. One winning team from each school will compete in the Finals.

Round 1 Competition: Each team presents at their own school to a panel of judges in Round 1 (to be completed by February 28 2009). The panel of judges will include local finance professionals in investment banking, private equity and debt and school alumni.

Finals: One team from each school competes in the Finals on April 22nd at Legg Mason Investment Counsel, 640 Fifth Avenue, 9th Fl. from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. All teams will receive direct monetary awards.

Benefits to Students

Exposure to leading finance professionals and organizations in the region.
Opportunity to learn about corporate finance by looking at a transaction from the perspective of the owner, the buyer, the financial advisor, the equity investors, the debt providers and the management team.
Highly realistic case study provides unique, relevant experience in a team-oriented setting.
Winning teams receive meaningful cash rewards.

Participating Schools

Baruch	Hofstra
Cornell	Pace
Fordham	NYU

Congratulations to the 2009 Winning Team!

ACG New York congratulates and thanks all the students and judges who participated in New York's 1st Annual ACG Cup Competition!
ACG New York's CUP Champion!
Cornell University

Cornell Team Members:

Alexander Kaganas
Ashwini Inamdar
Henry Hendrawan
Jason Lee
Denise Chow

ACG New York CUP Judges

ACG New York Announces ACG CUP Winners - Click here to read the full release

ACG NY CUP 2009

January 2009: Registration/School Team Sign-up
There are no limitations on the team size except that it must be comprised of at least 3 MBA/MS Finance students from the participating schools. Based upon experience, we recommend a team consist of 3 - 5 students. The competition is open to all graduate school business students and MS finance degrees at participating universities, whether they are full-time, part-time or executive MBAs.

February: Release of Case Study & Round 1 / On-Campus Round

New in 2009, we will utilize a Virtual Data Room for the release of the case. All team registered members will receive log in and password information to the Merrill DataSite. Teams will have 1 week to prepare for the case in advance of the Round 1 Competition.

School representatives will communicate with your team, as necessary, throughout this process and be available to answer questions (other than related to the case itself).

Specific logistics for on campus rounds will be communicated by your respective school contact. Judges will include faculty and/or industry professionals using a set of criteria provided by ACG for evaluating the presentations. Evaluation criteria will be provided upon the release of the business case.

Round 1
School Date Time Venue

NYU 11-Feb-09 6:00pm NYU Stern - 44 West 4th Street

Fordham 13-Feb-09 3:30pm Fordham Business School in Lincoln Center
Campus, Room 614

Hofstra 26-Feb-09 6:00pm TBD

Pace 27-Feb-0 1:00pm Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038 - room 457

Baruch 27-Feb-09 1:00pm Library Building, 7th floor Conference Center
151 East 25th St. (bet Lex & 3rd Aves)

Cornell 12-Mar-09 9:00am

St. Johns 2-Mar-09 3:00pm Grant Thornton, 666 Third Avenue

Round 2 / Finals - Thursday, April 2, 2009
Teams will compete head-to-head with the winners from the other New York MBA schools prior to the ACG NY DealSource at the Metropolitan Club, One East 60th Street. Further details to be circulated to participating teams.