MAJOR TOPICS: • Readiness for a capital raise • Capital raising process • Financial and business projections and valuation • Debt v. equity • Use of proceeds • Assembling the right team of advisors • Types of potential investors • Common mistakes

1. • Alexander B. Kasdan, Senior Managing Director, DelMorgan & Co.
• Neil Morganbesser, President & CEO, DelMorgan & Co.
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MODERATOR: Alexander B. Kasdan, Senior Managing Director,
DelMorgan & Co., brings more than twenty years of senior-level Wall Street
advice to middle market companies, entrepreneurs and institutional investors.
He has extensive experience in investment banking, corporate law and
restructuring at world’s leading firms, including Credit Suisse First Boston,
O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell LLP (now O'Melveny & Myers LLP), Battle
Fowler LLP (now Paul Hastings LLP) and Schlumberger Ltd., and as a
founding partner of Convergence Capital Partners. Alex has worked on more
than 100 domestic and cross-border transactions in North America, Europe and
Africa.
Alex is a Senior Advisor to Governance and Transactions LLC, an advisory firm
established in 2003 by Mr. James L. Gunderson, former Secretary and General
Counsel of Schlumberger Limited, to assist boards, management and owners
with corporate governance, compliance, structuring and strategic transactions.
Alex is a frequent moderator and an interviewer at Expert Webcast roundtable
discussions attracting business leaders and leading professionals from around
the world.
Alex graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a B.A. degree
in Economics and Italian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa during his junior
year. In addition, he holds a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School
and has studied at the University of Florence in Italy.
100 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 750
Santa Monica, CA 90401
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+1 310 935 3826 office
ak@delmorganco.com
www.delmorganco.com

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Panelist: Neil Morganbesser is co-Founder and President & CEO of DelMorgan & Co.
where he provides senior leadership within the firm and helps oversee all client engagements. Mr.
Morganbesser is also CEO of Globalist Capital LLC, DelMorgan’s broker-dealer affiliate. Mr.
Morganbesser has over 25 years of experience providing financial and strategic advice to a full
range of clients, including entrepreneurs, large corporations, governments, family businesses,
private equity funds, and special committees of public companies.
Mr. Morganbesser has been affiliated with some of the leading institutions in the world, and his
experience ranges from representing the offshore owners in the sale of a small, private U.S.
company for $10 million to representing the special committee of a large, public company in a $9
billion negotiated management buyout with a highly complex financial structure.
Mr. Morganbesser has truly global experience with the most sophisticated transactions, across a
broad range of industries and in a large number of jurisdictions, as the lead banker on a wide
variety of transactional and other advisory assignments, including domestic and cross-border
mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, sales and divestitures, restructurings, special committee
assignments, unsolicited acquisitions and hostile defense. With transactional experience in over
30 countries, Mr. Morganbesser has successfully advised on over 100 transactions.
Until May 2008, Mr. Morganbesser was the head of West Coast and Asia Mergers & Acquisitions
at Bear Stearns & Co., as a Senior Managing Director based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining
Bear Stearns in May 2001, Mr. Morganbesser was an investment banker in the Mergers,
Acquisitions and Restructuring Department at Morgan Stanley (in New York and Los
Angeles). From 1990-1993, Mr. Morganbesser was a corporate and M&A attorney at Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Mr. Morganbesser graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude in Applied Mathematics /
Economics from Harvard University (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1986 and received his J.D. and M.B.A.
degrees (Order of the Coif, with honors) from Stanford University in 1990.
100 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 750
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 319-2000
nm@delmorganco.com
www.delmorganco.com

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MAJOR TOPICS:
• Readiness for a capital raise
• Capital raising process
• Financial and business projections and valuation
• Debt v. equity
• Use of proceeds
• Assembling the right team of advisors
• Types of potential investors
• Common mistakes