Event Tag: Alumni in Residence

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Vinod Lala is an accomplished finance executive with 25+ years’ experience in strategic investments, M&A, corporate finance, board advisory and public shareholder engagement coupled with domain expertise in cloud communications, digital infrastructure and mobile networks. For the last ten years, Vinod has been the Chief Strategy Officer at Vonage where he spearheaded strategy and M&A execution. Click to register.

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Gwendolyn Prothro Renigar, a litigation partner in the Washington, DC, office of Steptoe LLP, serves as the Chair of her firm. In her client practice, Gwen defends law firms, professionals, fiduciaries, financial services providers, and healthcare industry clients in complex litigation raising breach of fiduciary duty, contract, and professional liability claims. In her management role, Gwen leads the firm’s corporate governance and client initiatives, sets and implements the strategic plan, oversees the business affairs of the firm, and manages the legal and business professional talent. Click to register.

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Mark Wehrly joined Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. in 1996, and is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Special Counsel of the firm. Prior to joining Farallon, Mark worked as a corporate law associate in the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterling’s corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions practice groups. Mark graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. and with Distinction from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and in English Literature. Click to register.

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Alexandra McCormack is a partner in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and other securities and corporate law matters. She advises public and private companies, financial sponsors, family offices and hedge funds in U.S. and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, mergers of equals, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. Click to register.

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Tony Feuerstein focuses his practice on representing both financial sponsors and healthcare, hospitality, chemicals, and manufacturing clients in a broad range of public and private merger and acquisition transactions. This includes negotiated and unsolicited transactions, tender and exchange offers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, stock and asset purchases, divestitures and cross-border transactions. Click to register.

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Salvo Arena is one of the leading members of Chiomenti’s M&A practice and Head of the New York office. Salvo is a trusted adviser for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on their most critical transactions with experience spanning the entire range of M&A activity, including many significant leveraged buyouts, minority investments, complex carve-out transactions, joint ventures, and cross-border transactions. Click to register.

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Stephen Lam is General Counsel of SoftBank Group International. Stephen leads a global legal team comprised of over forty professionals based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe and works closely with SoftBank’s senior leadership, investment and functional teams to structure, negotiate and execute strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic initiatives across SoftBank Group, including through SoftBank’s Vision Funds.Click to register.

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Steve Boom is the Vice President of Audio, Twitch and Games for Amazon.com Inc, with global responsibility for Amazon Music, Audible, Wondery, Twitch, and Amazon Games. He also leads Digital Acceleration, the company’s digital commerce technology organization. Having joined Amazon in 2012, Steve launched and developed Amazon Music into one of the world’s leading audio entertainment services, and is widely recognized in the industry as an innovation leader. Click to register.

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Allan Merrill is a former senior hedge fund executive who specialized in merger arbitrage and event-driven investing. For the last five years of his career Allan was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Citadel, where he led three investment businesses. Prior to that he spent ten years at Eton Park Capital Management, where he was a Partner and Senior Managing Director. Click to register