Agile Equity: Press

Agile Equity Partner Speaks at 'M&A Mania, Fish or Cut Bait'

iBreakfast.com - March 21, 2001

M&A MANIA

Wednesday, March 21, 2001, New York, Marriott Marquis - 46th & Broadway

Take - or be taken?

The way to survive is to merge and grow. Do you acquire or become acquisition fodder? And how do you increase your value in this market of bottom feeders? This is a much-visited place in the evolution of technology marketplaces. We turn to seasoned veterans to put this all in perspective.

Ben Boissevain, Managing Partner, Agile Equity, LLC

Ben Boissevain has fourteen years of investment banking experience focusing on mergers & acquisitions in the technology sector. Prior to co-founding Agile in 1996, Mr. Boissevain was an Assistant Director in the M&A department at Barclays Bank where he specialized technology deals ranging from wireless data transfer to satellite remote sensing. Prior to Barclays, he was Senior Manager at Erste Bank in Vienna where he executed the first IPO in the former Soviet Union and major IPO and M&A transactions in Russia, Czech Republic and Hungary. He began as a corporate attorney in White & Case in New York responsible for negotiating, structuring and documenting significant M&A and IPO transactions in the booming late 1980's. Mr. Boissevain frequently speaks at Internet industry conferences and is quoted in the press, including in The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, and numerous industry newsletters. He is a member of the New York New Media Association and New York Software Association. He is a Board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum and on the Advisory Panel for GeoPortals.

George Stein, Bloomberg News

Paul Goodman, Ellenoff Grossman Schole & Cyruli

Paul Goodman is a partner in the New York City law firm of Ellenoff, Grossman, Schole & Cyruli, LLP, where he heads the firm's computer and Internet law practice. Has been actively engaged in the practice of Computer Law since 1986 and now concentrates on the representation of Internet and New Media clients handling a wide range of corporate and financing transactions including venture capital, angel round investing and mergers and acquisition.Over the last two years he has advised New Media companies on over two dozen financings and mergers. He is also on the Boardof Directors of Aladdin Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:ALHI) a well known publisher of software for the Macintosh market.

Mr. Goodman received his law degree from the City University of New York and also holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science.He was formerly a faculty member of the Queens College Computer Science Department and is the author of five books on programming. - (http://www.ibreakfast.com)