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Private Equity Outlook: Dealflow, Exits and Fundraising

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Thursday, April 12, 2012 2 p.m. EST

Bain Capital founder Mitt Romney's bid for the White House has certainly heightened the spotlight on and attention to the private equity industry in 2012.

For deal practitioners, there are certainly additional headlines and stories to Romney's political ambitions. Join The Deal for a 60-minute webcast on April 12 entitled: "Private Equity Outlook 2012: Dealflow, Exits and Fundraising." During this in-depth discussion, we'll hear our experts identify key trends in private equity dealflow, discover what changes seem likely in the deal process in the new environment and highlight new due diligence imperatives PE buyers need to examine to realize full values in deals. 

The panel will also examine the heightened appetite for acquisitions, especially in the middle market a handful of notable exits led by the expected initial public offering of social media giant Facebook; and the increased global competition for fundraising in these uncertain economic times.

After listening to just 60 minutes of our webcast with our editor and leading experts, you'll have a refreshed perspective on the key factors that will make a difference in your firm's success.

Moderator:

Sarah Hashim-Waris
Video Reporter at The Deal

Sarah Hashim-Waris is a video reporter at The Deal LLC, where she interviews dealmakers and industry experts on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and other sector news topics for TheDeal.com and Pipeline.TheDeal.com. Prior to joining The Deal's award-winning video team, Hashim-Waris was an on-air news anchor for SmarTrend News and Financial News Network Online, where she balanced on camera anchoring and production duties with writing broadcast script, as well as composing online news stories. Hashim-Waris initially launched her career in print  at The New York Enterprise Report, where she worked as an assistant editor, writing feature cover articles and the "Company Next Door" section for the monthly business-to-business publication.

Through her work at NY Report, she was able to leverage relationships with small business owners in the New York tri-state area, who served as the primary readership of the publication.  

Expert panel:

Matthew Porzio
Vice president of M&A Solutions
IntraLinks

Matthew Porzio, vice president of M&A solutions, joined IntraLinks Inc. in 2003. He is responsible for overseeing the strategic transactions vertical and driving the development and marketing of IntraLinks' products including virtual dealroom/dataroom solutions for the mergers and acquisitions and restructuring communities.
 
Before joining IntraLinks, Porzio was a senior associate at Metzler, a German advisory firm, where he focused on cross-border M&A transactions. Prior to Metzler, he served as an analyst and associate in equity capital markets and business services investment banking groups at First Union Securities. He holds a bachelor's degree from Colgate University.
 
Porzio has spoken on numerous industry panels and is a member of the selection committee for the M&A International Media Awards.


Jean-Pierre Paquin
Managing director
BBH Capital Partners

Jean-Pierre Paquin is a co-manager of BBH Capital Partners.  He has over 15 years of private equity experience.  Paquin is actively involved in sourcing, investment evaluation, transaction execution, and providing post investment value-added oversight to portfolio companies.  He also oversees limited partner relationships as well as the administration of BBH Capital Partners.  Paquin serves on the board of directors (or similar governing body) of Fire-Dex LLC, Freedom Scientific Holdings LLC, Tower Ventures LLC, Update Inc. and Telarix Inc. 

Prior to joining BBH Capital as a full-time member in 1998, Paquin was a financial analyst in BBH's Corporate Finance Department.  He graduated from Colgate University and received a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sam Oh
Partner
Apollo Global Management

Sam Oh joined Apollo Global Management LLC in 2008 from Morgan Stanley's commodities department where he managed principal investments in various sectors including oil and gas, electricity generation and transmission, dry freight, alternative energy, refineries and carbon. While at Morgan Stanley, Oh launched an oil and gas fund, Helios Energy/Royalty Partners, and sat on the board of several portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley's commodities department, he was in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley from 1999 to 2000 and a foreign exchange trader with Lehman Brothers Inc. and HSBC Bank plc from 1994 to 1998.

He serves as a director of Parallel Petroleum LLC and Athlon Energy LP. Oh received a bachelor's degree in science from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a master's in business administration from the Yale School of Management.
He is also a certified public accountant and a chartered financial analyst.

Jonathan Braude
Senior writer
The Deal

Jonathan Braude works in The Deal's London office, where he has covered private equity and M&A since returning to the U.K. in 2003. Prior to that, he was based in Berlin, as The Deal's correspondent for Germany, Switzerland and Austria, where he also wrote a weekly European business and economic column for the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper, and reported for Voice of America. He was previously editorial writer, political reporter and columnist on the staff of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and before that worked in Brussels, covering the European Union and NATO.