AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS:

9:00 Texas Mid-Year Market Outlook

Buyouts, with the help of two senior members of the Dallas chapter of the Association For Corporate Growth, here reveals the year-end results of the renowned, twice-annual Thomson Reuters/ACG DealMakers survey, which takes the pulse of dealmakers world wide. Presentation will include a special look at Texas results.

Interviewed by Mark Cecil, Contributing Editor, Buyouts

9:45 Panel 1: LPs Adapt To Our New Market

This panel will concentrate on how LPs are adapting to the new market where deal making is down but LBO firms continue to shop for equity. Topics covered will include: Where are LPs allocating their alternative investments? What kinds of funds are thriving? How can firms raise money from LPs in today’s environment? Use info from this panel to get inside the minds of LPs and improve your road show.

Dan Primack, Founder, peHUB.com

Lorraine Hliboki, Partner, Pomona Capital

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Panel 2: Deal Financing Today

Cheap, covenant-free debt has gone missing over the past year, as big banks pulled back on generous loans. This means new players have entered the market and prospects have risen for mezzanine funds. As equity components of deals climb and existing portfolio companies struggle under debt loads, this panel seeks to paint a picture of what deal financing is like today, where to find debt and on what terms, and what options LBO firms have now when a levered up company starts to stumble.

Moderator:

David Toll, Editor, Buyouts

Panelists:

Brandon Bethea, Principal, Insight Equity
John Brignola, Partner, LBC Credit Partners 
Grant Johnson, Vice President, Newstone Capital Partners 
Gene Miao, Managing Director, Highland Capital Management 
Kevin O'Brien, Managing Director, CCMP Capital Advisors

11:30 Panel 3: Energy Deal Making

This panel will tackle energy prices, fuel shortages and global warming—always pertinent topics in Texas and never more so than today. As this panel meets in early December, talk will focus around the energy policy for the then-newly elected president and how it will impact deal making over the next year. Panelists will also tackle a number of other issues, including sustainable energy investing and energy services deals.

Dan Primack, Founder, peHUB.com

Kevin Kuykendall, Managing Director, American Capital Energy

12:15pm Networking Lunch

1:20pm Keynote Interview

Peter Brodsky, a Partner with Dallas-based HM Capital Partners, sits down for an interview with Buyouts for our second keynote. HM Capital, one of the leading LBO shops in Texas, is focused on middle-market investments in media, food and energy in the United States and Canada, among other sectors. Brodsky, who has been with the firm since 1995, is responsible for the firm’s media investments, including its activities in telephone directories, broadcasting, cable television and media services.

Interviewed by: Mark Cecil, Contributing Editor, Buyouts

1:50pm Coffee Break

2:10pm Panel 4: The State Of Texas Deal Flow

Our closing panel launches us in appropriate fashion into our Deal Flow Circuit networking session. Here, we gather GPs and bankers to talk about deal flow trends in the Texas region for middle market firms. Where are deals coming from now? Are LBO shops bridging the gap with sellers? How much equity are firms putting into their transactions, how are they putting funds to work in slower times?

Shaun Buckley, Director, Transactions Support Services Group, RSM McGladrey

Kneeland Youngblood, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Pharos Capital Group

3:00pm Deal Flow Circuit: Meet The Region’s Top GPs

In this structured networking event, meet the best and the brightest from the region. Hop from table to table. Collect business cards. Do a deal. Food and refreshments served throughout.

Participating Firms:

TGF Management Corp

4:30 pm Conference Ends

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