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Important Dates

November 2011
Training Session 1

December 2011
Training Session 2

Saturday, January 14, 2012
Marquette University Intra-School Competition
-Location: Marquette, David Straz Hall - Room 250, 606 N. 13th Street, Milwaukee
-Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm

Saturday, February 4, 2012
Final ACG Cup Competition
-Location: Milwaukee Athletic Club
-Time: 8:30am - 11:30am

THE ACG CUP: The Premier MBA Competition

The ACG Cup is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA programs real world experience and invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity. Each case study 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 local ACG community. The competition is carried out through a series of intra-school and regional competitions, with regional winners awarded the prestigious ACG Cup title and cash awards.

THE ACG CUP VALUE PROPOSITION

Opportunity • Experience • Visibility

Participating in the ACG Cup provides students with the unparalleled opportunity to:

- Interact and network with leading finance professionals and organizations
- Gain insight into the inner workings of corporate finance through a variety of transaction
perspectives
- Meet and develop relationships with potential employers, team members and mentors
- Experience the opportunity to apply critical academic skills to a highly realistic M&A case study
- Enhance and polish presentation, team-building and networking capabilities
- Win meaningful cash awards

Students give the Cup high marks.

“Participating in the ACG has proven to be one of the most challenging as well as the most rewarding experiences in my professional career.”

- Michael Sanfilippo, member of 2010 winning Marquette team

View the complete ACG WI Cup article in the 2010 ACG WI / Business Journal Supplement

Contacts

School Representatives

Dr. Sarah Peck
Chair & Associate Professor of Finance
College of Business Administration
sarah.peck@marquette.edu

Dr. Jeanne Simmons
Asst. Professor of Marketing & Assoc. Dean of the Graduate School of Management
Office of the Dean/Marketing Faculty
jeanne.simmons@marquette.edu

ACG WIsconsin Representative

Ryan Chimenti
Cleary Gull Inc.
rchimenti@clearygull.com