Executive and Team Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Mentoring - Strategic Planning - Board Service

How to Drive Value Before Value Drives Away

 

The Panel

  • J. Dillon Bowles, Director, Fidus Partners
  • Gregory Giammittorio, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
  • Michael Tinsley, Founder & CEO, NeoSystems
  • Dr. Earl R. Smith II, Chairman, Dr. Smith & Associates

The Program

  • Networking and meeting the panel
  • Introduction, welcome and overview
  • Key M&A Value Drivers for Government Contractors
  • Managing Legal Issues to Build Value and Negotiating Leverage
  • Numbers Talk, But They Also Take Sides
  • Creating Value That Survives a Closing Negotiation
  • Discussion and questions

Who Should Attend

CXOs of private government contractors interested in increasing the equity value of their company in advance of an eventual sale.
Date: April 22, 2010
Place: The Tower Club
8000 TOWERS CRESCENT DRIVE
SUITE 1700
VIENNA, VA 22182

Time: 7:30 – 10:00 AM

Cost: $40


What You’ll Learn

The process of preparing a company for sale or merger is complex and requires much more advance work than generally assumed. In a dynamic, fast-paced morning seminar you will learn the key aspects of creating value and avoiding the pitfalls that erode value. The negotiations over business valuation are an integral part of an M&A transaction and how you handle them will determine how well or poorly the process works for you. This practical, nuts ‘n’ bolts seminar is designed to give you the essential and timely information and practical knowledge you need to fully successfully thrive through the M&A process.

This invitation only event will provide you with two dozen specific and actionable focus areas that will help you build value in your company. The panel will focus on processes that must begin months or years before any liquidity event. You will hear the stories of successes and failures – what worked and what proved costly to sellers – from people who have been on both sides of the table. We will show you how to develop strategic value which will survive the negotiation and closing process and help you to maximize the return for your shareholders.

Fortune favors the prepared mind

The panelists will provide you with two dozen specific and actionable areas to focus on that will prepare you for the best way to transact your company. They will focus on the process of negotiation – from initial contact through closing – and show you how you can develop strategic value which will survive the negotiation process and give you a higher multiple.


Panelist’s Bios

Gregory Giammittorio
Partner, Morrison & Foerster

Greg Giammittorio is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Private Equity Buyout Group. Mr. Giammittorio has acted as lead M&A counsel on over 100 transactions, many of which have involved government services and defense companies. He has over 20 years of experience representing private and publicly held companies in all stages of growth on a range of issues involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, private equity, and public and private securities offerings. Mr. Giammittorio is listed as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A in Chambers USA 2009. He currently serves as the Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Middle Market and Small Business Committee and for the last two years, as a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee Task Force on private target deal studies.

Dillon Bowles
Director, Fidus Partners

Dillon Bowles has extensive experience advising private and public companies, Boards of Directors, and private equity groups in all facets of mergers and acquisitions, including sellsides, buysides, spin-offs, fairness opinions, and capital raising. Dillon joined Fidus Partners in 2009 and leads the firm’s Government Services and Defense practice. Fidus Partners is a middle market focused investment bank providing M&A and capital raising advisory services as well as investment capital through a $220 million mezzanine debt fund. Previously, Dillon was with Wachovia Securities, where he spent eight years in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group and served on the firm’s Fairness Opinion Committee.

Dillon has completed over 25 assignments across a broad range of industries with a particular focus on government services, defense, and business services, including representing SI International in its sale to Serco Group, New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of Camber Corp, and i2, Inc in its sale to Silver Lake Sumeru.

Michael Tinsley, CPA
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, NeoSystems

Michael Tinsley is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of NeoSystems Corp., a Managed Services Provider that delivers comprehensive, on-site, business accounting services to government contractors.
Michael founded NeoSystems in 2000 after 20 years of industry experience that gave him a vision for providing quality, efficient, and innovative accounting services.  Under Michael’s leadership, the Tysons Corner-based firm serves more than 50 clients and employs approximately 100 professionals, who often manage the majority of a client’s accounting and financial work.
Michael’s career includes extensive financial and administrative management experience with high-growth companies and government contractors.  Before establishing NeoSystems, he served as Vice President of Finance and Administration with Broadsoft, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions provider.

He also served as Chief Financial Officer for Scientific Research Corporation, a research and engineering firm specializing in defense communications systems.  He also held senior positions with Digital Lightwave, Inc., and BTG, Inc.  In addition, he owned and managed a private accounting practice and began his career at Price Waterhouse.

Dr. Earl R. Smith II
Chairman, Dr. Smith & Associates

Dr. Smith serves as a strategic adviser and on boards of directors and advisory boards. He advises investors and CEOs and executive teams, sales teams and builds advisory boards as business development engines. His expertise includes innovation, governance, succession planning, mergers & acquisitions, team building, strategic planning, turnarounds and reorganization.

Dr. Smith also specializes in turnaround situations. His experience in building six for-profit companies and helping to launch two non-profit organizations allows him to help management overcome challenges that may seem daunting to them. His wide range of contacts allows him to tap into substantial pools of resources – including senior executives, highly effective professionals and sources of financial support.

Dr. Smith is a proven entrepreneur, seasoned senior executive, political and social theorist, published author and speaker. A veteran of Wall Street, he founded two non-profit and six for-profit companies. His experience includes designing and organizing companies, business/technology management, team building, strategic alliances, negotiating complex arrangements, governance & compliance, resourcing & financing, mergers & acquisitions, management/team/board assessment, coaching and strategic and tactical planning and implementation.


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