Largest Los Angeles Investment Capital Conference Scheduled To Provide Sources of Capital for Local Growth Companies
PR Newswire - February 27, 1998 20:30
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Over $74 Billion in Capital Sources to be Represented;
Keynote Speakers: Joel Kotkin, Author and Pepperdine Economist, and
Regis McKenna, Technology Marketing Consultant
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles will be the site of the
largest regional investment and venture capital conference presenting firms
that provided over $74 billion in capital to emerging growth and middle market
companies over the last two years.
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA), the full-day 1998
Investment Capital Conference will be held on March 18, 1998 beginning at 8:30
a.m. at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California.
Michael Donahue, chairman of the Conference said, "We anticipate over 900
guests and 60 scheduled speakers this year, representing the largest Los
Angeles based investment conference of its kind for growth companies seeking
new capital.
"The key to our growing success has been our clear focus in helping
Southern California based growth companies and their advisors, find and access
capital, understand the different criteria for over 60 sources of capital, and
review innovative new strategies for structuring capital formation
transactions," said Mr. Donahue.
Featured speakers include morning keynote speaker Joel Kotkin, who is a
frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Inc.
Magazine and The New York Times. He has authored or co-authored several
reports on Southern California business including Southern California In The
Information Age, California: A 21st Century Prospectus, and California Inc.
Regis McKenna, who is the featured luncheon speaker, is responsible for
having helped launch some of the most important technological innovations of
the last 25 years -- including the first microprocessor (Intel Corporation),
the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product (Genentech, Inc.) and
the first retail computer store (The Byte Shop). He has worked with a number
of other entrepreneurial start-ups during their formative years including:
America Online, Businessland, Compaq, Lotus, Microsoft, National
Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM and Tandem.
"According to Securities Data Company, in 1997, over 226 companies
completed their initial public offering (IPO) or add on offerings in
California; of those 121 were located in Southern California. This conference
will continue to support Los Angeles as a significant and growing investment
center for the largest population of growth companies in the world," said Mr.
Donahue.
Massoud Entekhabi, managing partner of Coopers & Lybrand added, "In terms
of venture capital investments, if Southern California were a separate state,
it would often rank as the second largest state in the union."
The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) is a non-profit association
that supports emerging growth companies in Southern California by providing
access to financial, professional and technological resources.
AGENDA
7:30-8:30 Registration - Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:20 Welcome Remarks - Announcements -
Morning Keynote - Joel Kotkin
San Francisco Room
9:20-10:25 Case Study - Financing the Emerging Growth Company -
San Francisco Room
A case study presenting MMC Networks, Inc. and the Company's
investment bankers and venture capital investor discussing
how the Company successfully raised over $120 Million of
investment capital.
Moderator: Irwin Federman U.S. Venture Partners
Speakers: PK Dubey MMC Networks, Inc.
George J. Kelly Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
William R. Salisbury Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
Amos Wilnai MMC Networks, Inc.
10:25-10:50 Break
10:50-12:15 Investment Banking I - Sacramento Room
Initial public offerings ($5 Million to $25 Million),
private offerings, bridge financings.
Moderator: Michael D. Donahue Donahue, Mesereau & Leids LLP
Speakers: David H. Horwich Van Kasper & Company
John P. Kanouff RAF Financial Corporation
Jan Charles Koontz W. B. McKee Securities, Inc.
Joseph C. Sherwood, III Cruttenden Roth, Inc.
Richard P. Woltman Spelman & Co., Inc.
Senior Debt Financing - San Jose Room
Bank financing, asset based financing and factoring.
Moderator: Stanton C. Marcus Coast Business Credit
Speakers: Daniel de Brauwere BankAmerica Business Credit
Francine Forrence Coast Business Credit
Mark Elliot Gudis GE Capital Corp.
Keith Palesh Norwest Business Credit, Inc.
Noel R. Ryan, Jr. Sumitomo Bank of California
10:50-12:15 Financing the Public Company - San Diego Room
Secondary offerings, private placements for public
companies, Reg S offerings, dealing with securities
analysts, investor relations.
Moderator: William R. Metzler Wedbush Morgan Securities
Speakers: William F. Coffin Coffin Communications Group
Michael G. Gardner Wedbush Morgan Securities
Todd Jadwin Everen Securities
Steven A. Kriegsman The Kriegsman Group
Andrew E. Shapiro Lawndale Capital Management, LLC
12:15-2:15 Luncheon - San Francisco Room
Keynote Luncheon Speaker: Regis McKenna
2:15-3:40 Mezzanine Financing - Sacramento Room
Subordinated debt financing.
Moderator: Eric Schunk Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Speakers: Jeffrey J. Holland Seacoast Capital
Lauren B. Leichtman Levine Leichtman Capital
Partners, Inc.
Sandra Mayasich Churchill Capital Inc.
Dennis McCarthy The Wescott Group
Carr T. Preston Allied Capital
David Traversi Sirrom Capital West, Inc.
Venture Capital - San Jose Room
Early to late stage venture capital financings; incubators
and EC2, The Annenberg Incubator Project
Moderator: James E. Siegfried, C.P.A. Coopers & Lybrand
Speakers: G. Leonard Baker, Jr. Sutter Hill Ventures
Mark J. DeNino TL Ventures
Tod H. Francis Trinity Ventures
G. Bradford Jones Brentwood Associates
Denny R.S. Ko DynaFund Ventures
Paul J. Nadel East-West Capital Associates
2:15-3:40 Small Public and Private Offerings, SCOR, Reg. A, Bridge
Loans, Direct Public and Private Offerings, Raising Money on
the Internet, Government Grants and Government Funding
(SBIR, STTR, ATP Grants) Community Development Bank
Financing - San Diego Room
Small public offerings (less than $5 Million); small private
placements; direct public and private offerings; raising
money on the Internet, SCOR, Reg A, 25102(n), Vancouver
Stock Exchange offerings, private placements ($1 Million to
$5 Million), business development companies, regulation
changes facilitating capital formation by small businesses,
Community Development Bank financing.
Moderator: Michael D. Donahue Donahue, Mesereau & Leids LLP
Speakers: Duke Bristow Price Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies
Ken Deemer Tech Coast Partners
Leonard Kirtman Select Capital Advisors
Lawrence R. Moreau Moreau & Company
Larry Wells DayStar Fund II, LLC
Clay Womack The Direct Stock Market Inc.
4:05-5:30 Corporate Investments/Strategic Alliances - Sacramento Room
Corporate investments, strategic alliances, joint ventures
and technology licensing as funding sources.
Moderator: Wallace E. Eater Eater Marketing Group
Speakers: Mark Chandler Hewlett Packard Company
Harold A. Hoeschen Lucent Technologies
Masatsugu Kidode Toshiba America, Inc.
James E. Kimmel MEDTRONIC, INC.
Vic Schmitt Baxter International
Thomas G. Willis Intel Corp
Investment Banking II - San Jose Room
Initial public offerings ($25 Million to $100 Million),
secondary offerings private and public debt offerings.
Moderator: Eric H. Schunk Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Speakers: Jeff Harmon Cowan & Company
Mark Lanigan Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette
John M. Morris Sutro & Co. Incorporated
John Sayres Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.
M. Brent Stevens Jefferies & Company, Inc.
4:05-5:30 Acquisition Capital Panel - San Diego Room
Leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisition financing,
ESOP financings and exit strategies.
Moderator: Kevin W. Shultz The Wescott Group
Speakers: Lynne A. Lueders Banque Paribas
Peter Nolan Leonard Green & Partners L.P.
Terry Theodore Kamm Theodore
William M. Tsai BANKBOSTON
Jerry Welch Kayne Anderson
5:30-7:00 Cocktail Reception- Foyer
SOURCE Los Angeles Venture Association
/NOTE TO EDITORS: The above is the schedule of speakers and affiliation
for the 1998 Investment Capital Conference to be held March 18, 1998 at the
Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 South Figueroa Los Angeles, CA. For further
information contact LAVA 310-450-9544 or visit their website at
lava.org. Interviews of the respective speakers before or at the
Conference can be arranged by calling: Christi Mottola at Coffin, Mottola
Communications, 714-851-1109/
/CONTACT: Mike Donahue, Chairman, 310-277-1441 or Christyne Buteyn, Exec.
Director, 310-450-9544, for Investment Capital Conference; or Christi Mottola,
Press Relations, Coffin-Mottola Communications, 714-851-1109/
/Web site: lava.org |
