ACG Connecticut Hosts Region’s Premier Dealmaking Event

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACG Connecticut, the Connecticut Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the premier authority on corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions, will hold the 7^th annual ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo in Stamford, CT, at the Stamford Marriott on December 3, 2010, from 7:30-10:00 a.m.

“ACG Connecticut seeks to bring together leaders in the M&A industry to promote business in our region. The ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo allows for direct business networking between deal sources and senior partners of exhibiting local private equity firms”

Over 300 middle market dealmakers are expected to attend the event, including private equity professionals, investment bankers, lenders, corporate development officers, lawyers and other service providers focused on corporate growth and mergers and acquisitions. The ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo is Connecticut’s leading and largest showcase of local private equity and mezzanine financing firms, including Atlantic Street Capital, Brookside Mezzanine Partners, Clearview Capital, Compass Group Management LLC, Gridiron Capital, Hamilton Robinson, Ironwood Capital, Meriwether Capital LLC, Richard L. Scott Investments, Saw Mill Capital, Smith Whiley & Company, and Southfield Capital Advisors.

"ACG Connecticut seeks to bring together leaders in the M&A industry to promote business in our region. The ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo allows for direct business networking between deal sources and senior partners of exhibiting local private equity firms,” said Ramsey Goodrich, President of ACG Connecticut. “Our outstanding members, participants and sponsors make the PE Expo the year’s showcase event to do business with the premier private equity firms in and around Connecticut."

Registration for the ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo is now open. For information on registration, exhibiting and sponsoring the event, please visit www.acg.org/connecticut.

“Unlike larger industry conferences, ACG Connecticut’s Private Equity Expo offers a more intimate setting for exclusively local dealmakers to exchange ideas and opportunities,” said Bradley Scholtz, Vice President, Private Equity at Richard L. Scott Investments. “In an environment where attractive opportunities are scarce and transactions remain difficult to close, these local relationships are extremely valuable.”

“The ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo continues to be the most efficient and effective event for making face-to-face connections with relevant deal contacts in our market,” said Christian Lund, Partner at Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Stamford that invests in industrial companies. “Spending ‘in-person time’ with dealmakers remains the best way to enhance your Rolodex, and the Expo always produces a great networking mix of new contacts and existing relationships.”

About ACG

Founded in 1954, the Association for Corporate Growth is the premier global association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions for mid to large companies. Leaders in corporations, private equity, finance, and professional service firms focused on building value in their organizations belong to ACG. They recognize the multiple benefits of networking within an influential community of executives growing public and private companies worldwide. For 50 years, ACG members have focused on strategic activities that increase revenues, profits and, ultimately, stakeholder value. Today ACG stands at more than 12,000 members representing Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, FTSE 100, and mid-market companies in 53 chapters in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about ACG, please visit www.acg.org. For more information about ACG Connecticut, please visit http://www.acg.org/connecticut.

NOTE TO MEDIA: To attend the ACG Connecticut Private Equity Expo, please contact: Jen Dowd, BackBay Communications, 212-209-3844, jen.dowd@backbaycommunications.com.