Sponsorship

The Entrepreneurship Center was organized in 1998 through a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and became an endowed center in 2002 through the generous commitment of Michael P. Polsky, '87, a successful entrepreneur and inspiration to students and alumni. The Polsky Center's mission is to creat entreprenurial leaders through a broad range of experiences, including classroom learning, experiential learning, leading-edge research, and community outreach.
Visit www.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship/

An international law firm with offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, Dechert has the resources to help clients succeed wherever they do business. We focus on core transactional and litigation practices, providing world-class, top-ranked services to major corporations, financial institutions, and private funds worldwide. In the United States, we have offices in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Newport Beach, Silicon Valley, Austin, Charlotte, Hartford, and Princeton. Our European offices are located in London, Paris, Brussels, Munich, and Luxembourg, and our Asian offices are located in Hong Kong and Beijing.
 
Dechert's core practices are: corporate and securities, emphasizing M&A, private equity, and corporate finance; litigation, emphasizing antitrust/competition, intellectual property, product liability, and white collar and securities defense; finance and real estate, emphasizing mortgage finance, structured finance, securitization, and investment; financial services, emphasizing mutual funds, hedge funds, variable products, broker-dealer, commodities, derivatives, and investment advisers; and intellectual property, emphasizing patent litigation and IP prosecution and licensing. The firm also has well-established practices in tax, business restructuring and reorganization, employment, health law, and environmental law.
 
 Private equity investors around the world rely on our global team of more than 200 lawyers to provide creative solutions to the most complex issues in evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and consummating private equity transactions. We advise clients at every phase of the investment lifecycle. We form funds for private equity sponsors and institutional investors and help raise capital; structure investments for private equity funds; and represent the portfolio companies of our private equity clients in a variety of transactions, including add-on acquisitions, initial public offerings, recapitalizations, dispositions, spin-offs, and institutional and bank financings.
 
Dechert is consistently ranked among the top law firms for private equity by leading league tables, such as The American Lawyer "Corporate Scorecard" and mergermarket, as well as legal directories including Chambers and The Legal 500.  
 
Carl de Brito
Partner
Dechert LLP
carl.debrito@dechert.com
www.dechert.com

RSM McGladrey is a leading national provider of financially focused business services. Serving clients from over 100 offices nationwide, we assist financial and strategic buyers nationwide and market our services nationally to private equity groups. Services include financial tax information technology and hman resources due dilligence, process management, negotiation support and post-closing work.

We are the U.S. member of RSM International, the sixth largest worldwide association of consulting and CPA firms, with nearly 600 offices and 23,000 professionals in 75 countries. As a national and international practice, our capabilities are comparable to the largest firms, but our division of services by industry and local practice ensures clients receive more personal attention from our most experienced professionals.

For more information, please contact John Schmdt at John.Schmidt@rsmi.com or visit www.rsmmcgladrey.co