Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup

by Kevin Urbani (Nicholas 2009)

The University of Wisconsin-Madison was recently named the winner of the ACG Cup for the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). The ACG provides a network for individuals that focus on corporation growth, corporate development and merger and acquisition activity. 2008-2009 was the inaugural year for the Wisconsin ACG Cup. ACG chapters find MBA programs in their region to have local competitions. The Milwaukee ACG chapter reached out to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University to provide one team each for this competition. Teams were chosen at each school during a preliminary round of competitions; at the University of Wisconsin, teams that took the class Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions were invited to compete. The final three teams presented a case analysis to a panel of judges comprised of two managing directors from investment banks, the President of an M&A advisory firm, and two Chief Operating Officers from large local corporations. After a difficult round of questioning, the UW-Madison team was presented with the trophy! The winning team members consisted of; Kevin Urbani (Nicholas Center); Ian Elfe (ASAP); Tom Nye (Nicholas Center) and Preeti Bhargava (Nicholas Center).