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June 7, 2012
Members Only Wine Tasting
featuring Regional Private Equity Firms
Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, PA
Members, Register Today!

June 21, 2012
June Breakfast Briefing
Dr. Peter Linneman
Top of the Tower, Center City Philadelphia
Register Today!

June 25, 2012
Annual Member Guest Golf Outing
St. Davids Golf Club
11 AM Registration; 12:30 Start
Members, Register Today!

October 16-17, 2012
M&A East 2012

Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia, PA
Registration is Now Open!

Welcome to Our New Members!

Jerald August

Fox Rothschild LLP

Alexander Bala
KPMG LLP

Martin Bispels
QVC Inc.

John Broderick
Argo Management Partners, LLC

Thomas Brower
JP Morgan Chase

David Burns
Grant Thornton LLP

Scott Byers
Diversified Information Technologies

Michael DiPiano
NewSpring Capital

Anthony DiSandro, Esq.
Stevens & Lee, P.C.

Matthew Estadt
Pine Hill Group, LLC

Henry Firey
Mad River Associates

Brad Golden
Eastern Research Services

Charles Hull
Boenning & Scattergood, Inc

Andrew Kurz
Janney Montgomery Scott

Lori Lombardo
Entrepreneur Partners, L.P.

Angelica Mandale
Grant Thornton LLP

Federica O'Brien
CerviLenz, Inc.

Robert Pace
GameStop

Jack Reick
Marsh

Gregory Reilly
KPMG

Christopher Reinholz,CFA, ASA
Ernst & Young LLP

John Rooney
Firstrust Bank

Gregory Sutton, Esq.
Stevens & Lee, P.C.

Albert Tuccio
Sartomer

Steven Tyminski, Esq.
Stevens & Lee, P.C.

Registration for M&A East is now open!

	Keynote Speakers

Bob Woodruff Broadcast Journalist	David Gergen Political Analyst	Mark Zandi Economist

Early bird savings available through 8/3.

M&A East provides opportunities for sponsors to gain visibility with a targeted and relevant audience of strategic and financial buyers, investment and commercial bankers as well as other deal professionals. Learn more about the multiple price points and opportunities by
Downloading the 2012 Sponsor Kit

Commit by May 18th to be included in the 2012 Conference Brochure

Questions, contact:
Stephanie McAlaine, ACG Executive Director, smcalaine@acg.org
Ryan Newman, Sponsorship Chair, Goldman, Sachs & Co., ryan.newman@gs.com

Thursday, June 21st Monthly Breakfast Briefing

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June Breakfast Briefing:
Speaker: Peter Linneman, Economist
& Professor of Finance, Real Estate & Business Policy
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Thursday, June 21st, 2012

7:15 am Registration; 8:00 - 9:00 am Program

ease join ACG Philadelphia as we welcome Dr. Peter Linneman, Professor of Finance, Real Estate and Business Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Founder of Wharton’s Real Estate Department, as our guest speaker.

Dr. Linneman, widely recognized as a leading strategic thinker as well as investor, has been cited as one of the 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate. He is the author of the Linneman Letter, a highly regarded "one-stop-shop" quarterly publication offering insight, analysis and strategic thinking around today’s ever-changing economic and geo-political environment to industry leaders around the globe. In this vein, Dr. Linneman will discuss the key issues driving today’s economy and offer insight into how they may affect the middle market deal world answering the following questions and your own.

- where is the US economy now and what can we expect in next 3 years?

- what happens in US housing and what are the repercussions?

- what is in store for Europe and does it matter to us?

- what is the state of US capital markets?

- which is inevitable: inflation or deflation?

- what happens if we hit the fiscal cliff in January?

- does the election matter for the economy?

- how does the budget deficit situation resolve?

Thursday, June 21, 2012

7.15 – 8.00 am Continental Breakfast& Networking
8.00 – 9.00 am Program followed by Q&A

9.00 Program Concludes, space available for continued member meetings.

Top of the Tower | 1717 Arch Street

50^th Floor | Philadelphia, PA

Members Only Events: 6/7 Wine Tasting and 6/25 Golf

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Members Only: Join ACG for 2 Great Networking Events

Meet & Mix with Private Equity
Firms at Our Spring Wine Tasting
at the Merion Cricket Club, June 7th

Featured Private Equity Firms include:

Argosy Capital
Boathouse Capital
CMS Mezzanine
Diamond Equity Partners
Element Partners
Eureka Growth Capital
Graham Partners
Guardian Capital Partners
Inverness Graham Investments
Larsen MacColl Partners
LBC Credit Partners
LLR Partners
Milestone Partners
NewSpring Capital
Penn Mezzanine
Spring Capital
Striker Partners

Members, Register Here

Annual Member Guest Golf Outing:

St. Davids Golf Club, June 25th

Eagle Sponsors:

ACG Philadelphia invites members and their guests to enjoy a day of friendly competition, and business networking at one of our region's finest courses. It's a sell out each year, please sign up early. Please note that you must BE a member of ACG in order to register for this event.

Date: Monday, June 25th
Location: St. Davids Golf Club
845 Radnor Street Rd Wayne, PA
11:00 am Registration, Practice Range & Lunch
12:00 pm Shotgun Start
6:00 pm Reception, Dinner & Prizes

Members, Register Here

ACG Cup: Drexel University Takes Grand Prize

ACG Philadelphia presented $35,000 in awards to eight MBA teams at the 6th annual ACG Cup competition, sponsored by KPMG LLP on April 19, 2012.

The Drexel University's LeBow College of Business team (pictured to the right) is the Grand Prize winner of the 212 ACG Cup. The team including Mengsu Liao, Jie Wang, Ben Wuebbenhorst, Yan Zhou, Jason Zola are pictured with John Lee with Griffin Financial and ACG Philadelphia's President, Ken Jones with Boathouse Capital and the ACG Cup Co-Chair and Mike McAleer with KPMG and the ACG Cup Co-Chair. The student team received a total award of $12,500 and the Philadelphia Cup Trophy, which the school can proudly display for the second year in a row.

The Wharton School of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania came in a close second and will receive $10,000, and Temple University's Fox School of Business placed third winning $5,500. The following other schools placed as finalists and each team received $1,500: LaSalle University, Penn State University, Saint Joseph's University, University of Delaware, and Villanova University.

Q1 2012 DealWire

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The latest deal news from around the region
DealWire Philadelphia, Q1 2012 Volume VIII, Issue I

M&A Despite Slow Start, Favorable Conditions Support Deal Flow in Balance of Year
- commentary by James McNaughton, Janney Capital Markets & ACG Marketing Committee

M&A: It's Groundhog Day ... Again...

Dealmakers in the greater Philadelphia region saw their shadow in February, despite record breaking temperatures that suggested Spring had already arrived. Total transaction volume numbered 261 deals in the first quarter and represented a decrease of 13% from Q4 2011 and a decrease of 10% compared to Q1 2011. Total adjusted transaction value of $20 billion decreased 14% compared to Q4 2011 and decreased 18% compared to Q1 2011.

From an M&A perspective, volume numbered...

Click Here To Read DealWire and Peruse Member Deals

Q1 2012 Featured Deal Video Interview

Member John Nowaczyk discusses the completed recapitalization of Image API, LLC by Milestone Partners. Fairmount Partners advised Image API and the transaction involved several Philadelphia-area companies.

Q1 2012 Featured Deal

Featured Deal:

Fairmount Partners advises Image API on its recapitalization with MileStone Partners

Interview with: Dick Thatcher, Managing Director and Head of Fairmount Partners’ Business & IT Services Practice and the Image API Deal Team

ACG: Please describe Image API’s business.

Image API is the leading provider of electronic document management solutions and related outsourced services to state and local government agencies. The Company utilizes its proprietary systems and solutions offerings to help state and local governments increase productivity, improve constituent services, streamline business practices and materially reduce costs. These services help drive down costs for government agencies that manually process large quantities of documents. Its offerings include project management, business process outsourcing, production services and enterprise content management systems.

ACG: Where is the company located and who are its major clients?

Where is the company located and who are its major clients? Image API is headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida with branch offices in Pennsylvania and Texas. Clients include the states of Florida, Texas, New York, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia.

To read the full interview, click here.