SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
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Strategic partner
AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges – from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line – a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
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Strategic partner
With a global platform of approximately 3,500 lawyers in 20 cities across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Kirkland & Ellis provides elite legal advice and a relentless commitment to client service. Kirkland is a market-leader in each of its core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations.
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Lead partner
Linklaters is a 185 year-old leading global law firm with over 3,100 lawyers across 31 offices in 21 countries. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide. In order to offer our clients the highest quality advice, our lawyers across three divisions — Corporate; Litigation, Arbitration, and Investigations; and Finance — specialize in industry sectors as well as practice areas.
Our Corporate M&A team regularly represent Boards of Directors and management of major companies in their strategic M&A transactions and advise them on governance issues and engagement with shareholders. We also advise financial sponsors and investment banks on their most significant and complex transactions in all sectors and geographies. We cover the full spectrum of M&A and corporate work advising buyers, sellers and financial advisers on public company transactions, private M&A, private equity, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, spin-offs, equity capital markets and corporate restructurings. Our end-to-end approach brings together our leading transactional expertise with the full range of specialists areas including antitrust, CFIUS, employment and incentives, environmental, intellectual property, pensions, regulatory, tax, technology and financing.
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Lead partner
Ropes & Gray, a preeminent global law firm, has been ranked in the top three on The American Lawyer's prestigious "A-List" for nine consecutive years. The firm has more than 1,500 lawyers and legal professionals serving clients in major centers of business, finance, technology, and government in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., London, Dublin, Milan, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo. The firm has consistently been recognized for its leading practices, including asset management, private equity, M&A, finance, real estate, tax, antitrust, life sciences, healthcare, intellectual property, litigation & enforcement, privacy & cybersecurity, and business restructuring.
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Lead partner
Wachtell Lipton was founded on a handshake in 1965 as a small group of lawyers dedicated to providing advice and expertise at the highest levels.
We have achieved extraordinary results following the distinctive vision of our founders — a cohesive team of lawyers intensely focused on solving our clients’ most important problems.
We have experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers and takeover defense, shareholder activism, corporate and securities law and corporate governance. We handle some of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and around the world. We counsel both public and private acquirors and targets. We also handle sensitive investigation and litigation matters and corporate restructurings, and counsel boards of directors and senior management in critical situations. We have a track record of original and groundbreaking solutions and innovations that have had a dramatic impact on business and law. We are thought leaders.
Our distinctive structure defines our approach. We maintain a ratio of associates to partners significantly below that of other firms. We focus on matters that require the attention, extensive experience and sophistication of our partners. We limit the number and type of matters we undertake. Our system of lock-step compensation promotes a careful selection of matters as well as the flexibility to bring the right expertise to bear without regard to factors extrinsic to providing the best service and advice. We work together on a task-force basis on all of our matters, bringing to bear the requisite mix of people and expertise across practice areas. Our structure and approach attract talented and entrepreneurial lawyers, who enable us to achieve excellent results for our clients in complex and critical matters.
Visit us: www.wlrk.com
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Workshop Partner
Diligent is the leading governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS company, empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster. Learn more at diligent.com.
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Associate Partner
Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations, with approximately 69 million consumer and small business clients, 3,900 retail financial centers, 15,000 ATMs and award-winning digital banking with approximately 57 million verified digital users. It is also a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world.
Visit us: https://business.bofa.com/content/boaml/en_us/home.html
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Associate Partner
Evercore (NYSE: EVR) is a premier global independent investment banking advisory firm. We are dedicated to helping our clients achieve superior results through trusted independent and innovative advice on matters of strategic and financial significance to boards of directors, management teams and shareholders, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic shareholder advisory, restructurings and capital structure. Evercore also assists clients in raising public and private capital, delivers equity research and equity sales and agency trading execution, and provides wealth and investment management services to high-net-worth and institutional investors. Founded in 1995, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices and affiliate offices in major financial centers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Associate Partner
FW Cook is an independent executive compensation consulting firm that provides objective advice to boards and management teams of the world’s leading companies. Our firm’s principal objective is to add value to the executive pay programs and processes of our clients. Our consultants collaborate with clients to solve complex problems and design programs that support their business strategy and successfully link executive pay to shareholder value. Founded in 1973, we are the market leader for board advisory relationships with publicly listed and privately held companies. FW Cook’s offices are located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and Boston. To learn more about us or to join our mail list, visit us on the web at www.fwcook.com.
Associate Partner
Gladstone Place Partners is a strategic financial communications firm headquartered in New York. We specialize in advising companies and investors at critical moments when communications can make a significant difference in achieving core objectives. We are a highly focused and experienced team with a broad range of backgrounds, including business leaders, communications professionals, finance professionals, and former senior journalists.
With global capabilities, our diverse team is designed to meet the evolving strategic communications needs of leading companies’ CEOs, boards of directors, and heads of communications. Clients seek Gladstone Place Partners’; counsel on a range of matters, including mergers & acquisitions, crisis situations, corporate reputation and strategic positioning, IPOs and spinoffs, global trade and supply- chain matters, cybersecurity, shareholder activism, quarterly earnings announcements, and corporate governance communications.
Our boutique approach, with a focus on independent advice and confidentiality, enhances our ability to help our clients navigate layered and critical matters. We understand the complexity and super-charged nature of today’s environment, which is why we have social and digital capabilities embedded in our DNA.
Gladstone Place Partners strives to build long-term, trusted relationships by delivering the highest quality work product, paired with uncompromising ethics, integrity, and judgment. Our work is underpinned by a culture of professional excellence, meritocracy, and diversity.
Our founder and chief executive officer, Steve Lipin, has spent more than 30 years at the intersection of the corporate world, Wall Street, and the media as a leading financial journalist and top communications strategist to C-suites, boards of directors, and chief communications officers.
Associate Partner
Joele Frank provides essential strategic counsel and tactical support when it matters most, from market-moving transactions and high-stakes situations to ongoing investor relations and corporate communications. We are differentiated by the depth of our experience, our commitment to fresh thinking and reputation for delivering impactful results, earning consistent #1 rankings across our M&A, activism defense, and bankruptcy practice areas. Our comprehensive expertise extends to our leading financial sponsors, governance and corporate stewardship, and creative services teams. We balance seasoned leadership and fresh perspective to provide 24/7 strategic support for our clients, which span virtually all industries, market caps, and geographies.
Visit us: https://joelefrank.com/
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Associate Partner
Kekst CNC has pioneered strategic communications to help clients achieve their critical business objectives for more than 50 years. Our creativity, judgment, and empathy are trusted by Boards and management teams for their most complex reputational opportunities and challenges. We build deep partnerships with clients, delivering expert, top-ranked counsel on high-stakes matters including M&A, shareholder activism and contested situations, crisis and issues management, cybersecurity, litigation support, investor relations, public affairs, and bankruptcy and restructurings. As part of Publicis Groupe, Kekst CNC leverages our unique access to data to drive highly targeted, effective solutions for our clients when it matters most.
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Associate Partner
Moelis & Company (“Moelis”) is a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative strategic advice and solutions to a diverse client base, including corporations, governments and financial sponsors. The Firm assists its clients in achieving their strategic goals by offering comprehensive integrated financial advisory services across all major industry sectors. Moelis’s experienced professionals advise clients on their most critical decisions, including mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings, capital markets transactions, and other corporate finance matters. The Firm serves clients from locations across North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. For further information, please visit: www.moelis.com.
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Associate Partner
Pay Governance LLC is an independent executive compensation consulting firm that serves as a trusted strategic advisor to boards, compensation committees, and senior management. We partner with organizations to design and implement tailored compensation strategies and programs that align pay with performance, support long-term value creation, and uphold strong corporate governance practices. With deep expertise and a comprehensive suite of advisory services, we help clients navigate evolving market dynamics and governance expectations to achieve their business and talent objectives.
Visit us: www.paygovernance.com
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Associate Partner
Our purpose — to build trust in society and solve important problems — is at the core of everything we do. It guides how we serve our clients, our people and the world. To help our clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes, PwC provides professional services across Audit and Assurance, Advisory and Tax. We bring a range of capabilities to help organizations solve faster, achieve more and realize greater value so you can drive to the leading edge. These capabilities include technology and business transformation, deals, sustainability, cybersecurity and regulatory, governance/boards, risk and much more. Across our global network of more than 370,000 people in 149 countries, we’re committed to bringing you the latest solutions to your biggest challenges.
Visit us: https://www.pwc.com/gx/en.html
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