Association for Corporate Growth Orange County to Showcase Private Equity Marketplace Featuring Deal Flow and Wine Tasting


TUSTIN, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 4, 2012) - The Association for Corporate Growth, Orange County (ACG OC) Chapter, will host its Tenth Annual Private Equity Night on Thursday, January 12, 2012 from 5:00-8:30 PM at the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach. The event will showcase deal flow and feature wine tasting for professional services firms.

Private Equity Night is ACGOC's signature annual event, consistently drawing more than 500 attendees from the mergers and acquisitions community, including private equity firms, investment bankers, attorneys, lenders, business owners, chief financial officers, chief executive officers, and commercial bankers, as well as the "Who's Who" of the M&A market in Southern California.

"If you want to know what's happening in the market or find deal flow, this is the place to be," said Dave Krajanowski, managing partner at SingerLewak LLP. "This is the must-attend event of the year, providing unparalleled access to Orange County's sources of capital, stimulating deal-making conversations and introduction to private equity groups across the U.S."

This year, more than 30 equity and capital firms from across the country will participate in the event including: Alpine Pacific Capital; Avante Mezzanine Partners; Brockway Moran & Partners, Inc.; Century Park Capital Partners; Cornerstone Capital Holdings; Creso Capital Partners; C3 Capital; Cyprium Partners; Evergreen Pacific Partners; Gen Cap America; General Atlantic; Grey Mountain Partners; Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Co.; H.I.G. Capital; Huntsman Gay Global; Jordan Company; Marwit Capital; Merit Capital; Northern Trust; Parallax Capital Partners, LLC; PNC Business Credit; Renovo Capital, LLC; Riordan Lewis & Hayden; Serent Capital; Sun Capital; The Edgewater Funds; TSG Consumer Partners; Vance Street Capital; VMG Partners; and Windjammer Capital Investors. A full listing can be found at www.acgoc.org.

The Private Equity Marketplace event is sponsored by SAP/Arxis Technology, Inc.; BDO; K&L�Gates; Mergers & Acquisitions; US Bank; and Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth. The Event Sponsors are Avant Advisory Group; Dorsey & Whitney LLP; Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP; Paul Hastings; Rutan & Tucker; Scherzer International; Shulman Hodges & Bastian LLP; Hilco and TriVista.

Admission to Private Equity Night is $115 for members and $250 for non-members. For more information or to register, call 714-259-1224 or email director@acgoc.org or access http://www.acgoc.org.

ACG OC Platinum Sponsors include: Beach Business Bank; Hein & Associates; Manderson, Schafer & McKinlay LLP; McGladrey; Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth; Tatum, LLC and U.S. Bank.

ACG OC Gold Sponsors include ADP; Aon Risk Services Inc.; Daly-Swartz PR; Euler Hermes; First Bank; Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP; GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC; Grant Thornton LLP; Marketwire; McGladrey Capital Markets LLC; PNC Business Credit; Robert Half International; Union Bank; White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP; Windes & McCLaughry Accountancy Corporation.

The ACG OC Corporate Sponsor is Meridian Graphics, The Women's Event Sponsor is Comerica Bank, The Academy Sponsor is SingerLewak, and The New Member Sponsor is Snell & Wilmer.

About ACG Orange County
Founded in 1954, the Association for Corporate Growth (http://www.acgoc.org) is a global organization with 56 chapters involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions. ACG's 14,000 members include professionals from private equity firms, corporations and lenders that invest in middle-market companies, as well as from law, accounting, investment banking and other firms that provide advisory services. Learn more at www.acg.org.

Contact Information:

Contact:
Daly-Swartz PR for ACG/OC
Jeffrey Swartz
949-470-0075