Join us in what Martin Prosperity Institute considers the 4th most powerful business center in the World!

#4 – Chicago
Economic Output: $460 billion
Global Economic Power Score: .915
Financial Center Score: 678
Innovation Rank: No. 7

One of the many reasons we choose to do our summer conferences in the great city of Chicago!

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“Private capital-backed companies outperform other companies in sales and job growth,” . The GrowthEconomy website, which brings together two independent databases and invites visitors to search them, demonstrates the impact of private capital investment on the U.S. economy for the first time. Watch this video to hear a teaser of this information.

Doug Tatum, the AM&AA Summer Conference Keynote Speaker, will do a presentation on this incredible research, providing key information yet to be released! Realizing the value we as Middle Market Private companies provide to this economy is a key part to the decisions we all make!

“From 1995 – 2009, middle-market private capital-backed companies created more new jobs than any other employment stage.” Join us at the conference to hear more great research done by IEGC a research institute funded by the NASDQ and Edward Lowe Foundations.

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Be sure to join us for this NEW session with the goal of connecting both sides of the deal table!

Wednesday, July 11th from 2:00 pm – 2:30pm

Pre-Qualified Investors will present their investment criteria and firm overview to an audience of Investment Bankers/Intermediaries and other M&A professionals with access to deal flow.

How it works:

• All investors registered for the conference as a sponsor will be prompted to sign up for the Quickfire Showcase two weeks before the event.
• A slot at the showcase provides an investor the ability to provide a brief (1-2 min) presentation of their firms investment criteria

Be sure to visit all of these investors at their tables in the exhibit hall during the Networking Reception and Thursday’s Open Exhibit Hall.

Interested in presenting your company? Sign up for an exhibit table now so you have the opportunity!

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These companies and more have attended the AM&AA conferences in the past.
Sign up now to join them and make a new connection!

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Keynote speaker: Doug Tatum

Newport Board Group/ Evolution Capital Partners

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Doug Tatum – Chairman of the advisory panel of IEGC a research institute funded by the NASDQ and Edward Lowe Foundations will share the results of the organization’s work recently completed on the dynamics of the US middle market economy and companies stuck in No Man’s Land – struggling with the fact that they are “too big to be small and too small to be big”. His book on the subject has received 4 National Best Business Book awards including being added to the recent edition of the compilation of the Best Business Books ever written.

We are very happy to announce Kyle Madden of KLH Capital as our conference Chairman for our next two conferences.

Mr. Madden is a Vice President with KLH Capital, a Private Equity group located in Tampa, FL, and is primarily responsible for business development, due diligence, and marketing efforts.  Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Madden worked with MassMutual Financial Group as a Brokerage Director in Tampa, FL.  An Amherst, New Hampshire native, Mr. Madden graduated from the John H. Sykes College of Business at The University of Tampa with a B.S. in Finance.

Kyle has been an integral part of many of the previous AM&AA conferences through sponsorship, leading sessions, and assisting the conference committee with outreach to build conference attendance. Through his connections with KLH Capital and his leadership on the conference, we are very excited to have this relationship with KLH Capital and with Mr. Madden, and look forward to what the next year will bring!

Company Profile:

KLH Capital is a private investment firm founded to provide entrepreneurs with capital to facilitate recapitalizations, management buy-outs, family successions, and other ownership transitions. With a track record of over 25 years and 130 completed transactions, KLH has a strong heritage in the lower middle market and a legacy of working with Management teams who wish to acquire or retain a meaningful equity stake in their growing business.

The firm seeks to partner with passionate, relentless, and ethical management teams who wish to acquire or retain a meaningful equity stake in their growing business and traditionally serves as financial partner at the Board level, become active to help with strategic planning, organizational development and sourcing add-on acquisitions.

KLH Capital has the flexibility to tailor our investments to meet the needs of both selling shareholders and operating managers and has the ability to invest in common/preferred equity as well as debt securities.

Investment Criteria

KLH Capital is actively seeking new investment opportunities that meet the basic tenants of the strategy that has kept our firm successful for nearly 30 years, which include:

• Revenue of $10 to $100 million with EBITDA of $2 to $8 million
• Growing businesses that need capital for growth, working capital, acquisitions, or recapitalizations
• Established companies with a history of positive revenue and cash flows
• Talented management teams in place that desire a large ownership stake in the ongoing business
• Industrial and business services, manufacturing, distribution, and consumer product businesses

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Join us this summer in Chicago to make the right connections…that lead to the Deals of Tomorrow.

Highlights

• Three “In Depth” Sessions covering Corporate Development, Global M&A, and Creating Market Ready Deal Flow
• Market update sessions lead by leading research analysts
• Networking Boat Cruise Wednesday Evening – Enjoy breathtaking views of the magnificent Chicago skyline, a buffet dinner, and an open bar aboard the First Lady on Lake Michigan.
• Free “Access Pass” invites to the exhibit hall on Thursday, increasing your network

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The Early Bird Gets The Worm!

Early sponsorship is more important now than ever before!

• Access Passes to the Exhibit Hall on Thursday
• 90 second promotional video to play continuously in the Exhibit Hall*
• All Sponsors receive the Attendee List in advance

The AM&AA 14th Annual Winter Conference in Las Vegas was a great success thanks to your participation.  Over 310 M & A Advisors were in attendance coming from as far as Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and New Zealand. It was great to see so many people collaborating all to benefit each other!

Our educational programs were well attended and interactive thanks to  our highly regarded speakers, with many new thoughts and experiences shared.  Actionable connections were made and the Deal Bash was again a resounding success with over 40 participating investment bankers.

Thank you to all our sponsors whom without them we wouldn’t be able to put on our events. A special thanks to our Premier Sponsor, Grant Thornton.

See what some of the attendees had to say about the event:

“I walked away with 20+ new contacts in the investment banking world.  Very worthwhile!“
- Scott Colvert, Trinity Hunt Partners

*if you attended the conference and haven’t already done so, please take just a few minutes to fill out an evaluation.  Your thoughts and opinions provide us with the opportunity to improve our next events*

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