8:00am - 8:45am

Breakfast

8:45am - 9:00am

Opening Remarks

9:00am - 9:30am

Mark Copman
Staff Vice President, Corporate Development and Mergers and Acquisitions
3M

Session Description:

Mark Copman joined 3M Company in 2003 and is currently the Vice President for Corporate Development and Mergers and Acquisitions. Since Mark has joined, 3M has done over 30 acquisitions. Mark will be sharing thoughts around how 3M does its benchmarking on completed deals. At the aggregate level, are the deals performing as expected? Better? Worse? He will also discuss the tools and processes he has put in place to get better transparency around deal performance and best practices in integration.

*This session is closed to the press

9:35am - 10:15am

Panel Discussion
Presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers

"Best Practices in Divestitures"

Moderator:
Mark Ross
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Panelists:
Hyman Buchwald
Director, Corporate Development
ITT

Karin Flanagan
Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Jagtar Narula
Director
Xerox

10:20am - 11:00am

Panel Discussion

“Best Practices in M&A”

Session Description:
This discussion convenes several senior M&A professionals that are actively involved in all aspects of their M&A programs. Panelists will offer points of view on sourcing transactions, considerations in how they are structuring their transactions, as well as benchmarking the success of transactions post close.

Moderator:
I. Berl Nadler
Senior Partner, Member of Management Committee
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Panelists:
Terence Bentley
Senior Director, Corporate Development
Teleflex

Michael I. Oberlander
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Brown Shoe Company, Inc.

Andrew Stern
Director of Corporate Development
F5 Networks

Tom Waleski
Sr. Director of M&A and Business Development
The Hershey Company

D. Randall Winn
Managing Director
Capital IQ

*This session is closed to the press

11:00am - 11:20am

Coffee Break

11:20am - 12:00pm

Panel Discussion

“A Discussion on the Current Deal Environment”

Moderator:
James P. Gerkis, Esq.
Partner
Proskauer Rose

Panelists:
David W. Glenn           
Managing Director & Partner
Lightyear Capital LLC

Michael B. Kessler
Managing Director
Veronis Suhler Stevenson

Linda Maxwell
Chief Strategist
Jefferies Quarterdeck

Alexander S. Panos
Managing Director
TSG Consumer Partners

12:05 - 12:45pm

Panel Discussion

"Techniques for Structuring M&A Transactions in the Current Market"

Session Description:

The discussion will touch on a variety of factors affecting the structuring of transactions in today’s marketplace. Topics to be covered include but may not be limited to:

• Financing the deal: What capital providers look for when doing a deal
• Negotiating the deal structure and price based on current market conditions
• Pitfalls to avoid when negotiating the deal
• Financial conditions/reverse breakup fees/specific performance in the current marketplace
• SPACs & BDCs
• Tender offers, top-ups

Moderator:
Francesco Guerrera
US Business Editor
Financial Times

Panelists:
Randy Hicks
Managing Director
KPS Capital Partners, LP

Jeffrey D. Marell
Partner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Steven Wayne
Managing Director
Oak Hill Advisors, L.P.

12:45pm - 1:45pm

Lunch Sponsored by Capital IQ

1:45pm - 2:15pm

Jason L. Rapp
SVP, Mergers and Acquisitions     
IAC

*This session is closed to the press.

2:20pm - 3:00pm

Panel Discussion

“Market Trends in M&A”           

Moderator:
James Politi
Deals Reporter
Financial Times

Panelists:
Michael Kane
President & CEO
Kane & Company Inc.

Edward W. Kelley
Chairman & CEO
Edward W Kelley & Partners

Dr. J. Neely
Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton

Morton A. Pierce
Partner
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

3:05pm - 3:35pm

Aris Chicles
VP, Strategy & Corporate Development   
ITT Corporation

Session Description:

Aris was appointed VP, Director Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development for ITT Industries in June 2006. Prior to Aris, ITT did not have a dedicated role for M&A. In his comments, Aris will discuss his experience in building a new M&A program from the ground up. He will discuss best practices around developing a pipeline, working internally with complementary areas of executive leadership, as well as optimizing processes around due diligence. He may also discuss “lessons learned” from some recent transactions, specifically the experience on deals in which private equity and hedge funds where actively involved in the negotiations.

3:35pm - 4:05pm

Coffee Break

4:05pm - 4:35pm

David Senior
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
AmerisourceBergen

*This session is closed to the press

4:40pm - 5:10pm

Kevin Mayer
EVP, Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Technology
The Walt Disney Company

*This session is closed to the press

5:10pm - 5:15pm

Closing Remarks

5:15pm - 6:15pm

Cocktail Reception

*Please note agendas are subject to change