ACG Philadelphia: February 2017 Corporate Buyers' Roundtable Dinner - Informational

Corporate Buyers' Dinner Discussion
February 8, 2017

Open by invitation to Corporate Development Officers and corporate transactional executives. Contact Stephanie McAlaine at smcalaine@acg.org to request a link to register.

Connect and exchange ideas with your peer corporate development executives responsible for strategic acquisitions at a roundtable dinner discussion.  February's topic will focus on the role of the corporate development function as it relates to growing presence of activist investors.

SPEAKERS:

 

Darren Novak, Managing Director, UBS

UBS Group AG hired Darren Novak, a managing director at Houlihan Lokey Inc, in its New York office to advise companies on how to defend themselves against activist investors. Novak's role represents a tactical switch after he worked with activist investors at Houlihan, offering them advice on pressuring companies. Before joining Houlihan in 2011, Novak worked as an M&A partner at Canadian law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Before that, he worked at two other law firms, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and White & Case LLP.

 

Jackson Dunckel, CFO, Advanced Metallurgical Group  

Jackson Dunckel was appointed Chief Financial Officer of AMG on February 1, 2016 and a member of the AMG Management Board on May 4, 2016. Dunckel joined AMG from the Macquarie Group Limited where he served as Managing Director and U.S. Head of Chemicals from 2010 to 2015. Prior to this, Dunckel held various senior level positions at JP Morgan Chase since 1995, including Executive Director, Investment Banking Coverage.

LOCATION:
Flemings Steak House
555 E. Lancaster Avenue
Radnor PA (next to the Radnor Hotel)

TIMING:
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

6:00pm Networking & Cocktails
6:30pm Discussion & Dinner
8:45pm Conclusion 

PRICING:
50.00 ACG Members
85.00 Non Members

 

 

Thank you to our ACG corporate program sponsor