Sponsors
July 29, 2010 – Bell Harbor International Conference Center – Seattle
ACG Seattle is especially grateful to all of the firms listed below for their generous support which has made the Northwest Growth Financing Conference™ possible.
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Chase’s commitment to the Pacific Northwest is strong and growing. We are proud to be the co-presenter of this year’s Northwest Growth Financing Conference in partnership with the Association for Corporate Growth-Seattle. For 200 years Chase has been helping businesses meet their financial goals, while also actively supporting the growth and viality of the communities we serve. We have built long term relationships by understanding our clients’ diverse needs, offering local expertise and providing global resources. In Washington, and across the country, Chase clients have come to appreciate the peace of mind that comes from knowing their banking partner is well capitalized, has a balanced portfolio and can provide all the resources necessary to support their business’s current and future growth. We are excited to be part of such a dynamic business community and look forward to helping support its future success. https://www.chase.com |
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Puget Sound Business Journal has been serving the local business-information needs of the area for more than 26 years. While its basic distribution area is the three-county region of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, in fact the business leaders in every part of the state number among the Business Journal’s top-executive audience. The Business Journal’s audience is served both by the weekly newspaper and its various special products, as well as via the newspaper’s Web site and daily headline e-mail updates from the publisher. Its service to community includes an array of events it puts on or partners in throughout the year to provide opportunities for business to celebrate its successes and to network and build relationships. http://seattle.bizjournals.com |
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Moss Adams is the only international accounting and consulting firm based in the West serving middle market businesses for almost 100 years. Our Transaction Services Group and Professional Practice Partners support financial sponsors with the critical information needed to make decisions about deals as well as periodic compliance services. Drawing on our proven industry expertise and wide range of technical disciplines in the support of all phases of transaction processes, we work with clients on acquisition and divestiture strategies, due diligence, valuations, integration services, IT services, tax M&A, tax diligence, and structuring. With our investment banking affiliate, Moss Adams Capital, we also provide M&A and capital raising services. Moss Adams has the reach to support financial sponsors and transactions anywhere your business takes you. http://www.mossadams.com |
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McGladrey understands the risks, intricacies and urgency of due diligence. With our middle-market focus and integrated approach, we provide tax and business consulting services to private equity firms, while McGladrey & Pullen provides attest services for funds and portfolio companies. We serve clients nationwide in a variety of industries. Our responsiveness, depth of experience and global reach allow us to execute with flexibility and precision — on your schedule. McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen, a partner-owned CPA firm, have an alternative practice structure. Through separate and independent legal entities, the two firms work together to serve clients’ business needs. http://www.mcgladrey.com |
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PNC Business Credit is the asset-based lending arm of PNC Bank, N.A., and is one of the nation’s leading asset based lenders with a regional office in Seattle serving the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. PNC has a track record of succesfully working in virtually every industry and provides flexible financing solutions for middle market companies to support working capital, growth, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and turnarounds. As a hybrid lender, PNC can provide overadvance term loans without warrants at competitive prices.
Underwritten transactions range from $7 million to $250 million and today PNC manages more than $19 billion in commitments. PNC provides the same level of service, flexibility and creativity no matter what the deal size. |
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Blue Point Capital Partners is a national private equity firm with over $800 million of equity under management. It is one of the largest private equity firms domiciled in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and Southeast, with a focus on investments in middle market manufacturing, business services and distribution companies in these regions. http://www.bluepointcapital.com |
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Portent Interactive is a full-service internet marketing agency that helps clients grow using the web. Founded in 1995 it provides a complete array of services that include search engine optimization, pay per click marketing, web analytics and reporting, social media and creative services to a wide range of “middle market” companies. http://www.portentinteractive.com |
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Green Tree Capital has specialized in arranging the sale, purchase and financing of privately owned “middle market” companies in the Western United States for clients since its inception in 1986. http://www.greentreecapital.com |
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Stoel Rives is a business law firm providing counseling and litigation services to a wide range of clients throughout the United States. The firm’s 365 attorneys operate out of eleven offices in seven states. Stoel Rives is regarded as a leader in energy, natural resources, environmental, litigation, corporate and intellectual property law. http://www.stoel.com |
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Founded in 1984, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) is the largest statewide association of technology professionals, companies and IT departments in North America. We have over 1,000 member companies representing more than 100,000 technology sector employees in Washington state, and over one million employees worldwide. Join us. Grow with us. http://www.washingtontechnology.org |
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Sponsorship Information
If you would like to become a sponsor of the Northwest Growth Financing ConferenceTM, please contact Lynn Melby to obtain a Sponsorship Prospectus.
Lynn Melby
Executive Director, ACG Seattle
23607 Highway 99, Suite 2-C
Edmonds, WA 98026
425-778-6162
lynn@acgseattle.org
