M&A Case Competition
Fall 2015 M&A Case Competition featuring judges Elizabeth Nesvold (Founder and Managing Partner at Silver Lane Advisors), Peter Nesvold (Managing Director at Silver Lane Advisors), Michael Maxworthy (Founding Partner at Marlin & Associates), Eric Press (Co-founder and Managing Partner at Alterna Capital Partners), and Dan Bruck (Private Equity Associate at Cerberus Capital Management)
Hosted by the Finance Society, the M&A Case Competition is a case analysis competition based on mergers and acquisitions cases from Harvard Business School.
This case competition is extremely valuable to underclassmen who would like to learn business strategy and valuation techniques. In conjunction with this competition, the Finance Society runs workshops covering discounted cash flow valuation, comparable companies analysis, precedent transactions analysis, accretion/dilution, and qualitative analysis of mergers and acquisitions. There are no prerequisites for this competition, and we will teach you everything you need to know to perform this analysis.
This competition is held in the fall of each academic year, and the finals of the competition have previously been hosted at Bank of America’s offices in New York City. If you have any questions about this competition, feel free to reach out to us at bingfinancesociety@gmail.com.
Past Champions
Fall 2023 (Intuit Bids for PayPal): Roman Charan, Joseph LoRubbio, Denis Sadrijaj, Gregory Tasalov
Fall 2022 (Microsoft Bids for Activision): James (Jimmy) Ferns, Aleksander Labosky, Neel Patel, Jack Schaffer
Fall 2021 (Sherwin-Williams Bids for Valspar): Isaac Frankel, Max Grossberg, Burke Sansiviero, Yehuda Silverman
Fall 2020 (Charter Bids for Time Warner Cable): Katelyn Cecere, Gabrielle Knafelman, Hannah Kozlenko, Abigail Sneddon
Fall 2019 (Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar): Jacob Hochheiser, Steven Quinlivan, Christopher Suchecki
Fall 2018 (Kraft Heinz Bids for Unilever): Vienna Buscher, Krista DiResta, Derek Gonda, Michael Maceluch
Fall 2017 (Canadian Pacific Bids for Norfolk Southern): Dominic Macri, Eric Hetzke, James Sorrentino, Nicholas Tiongson
Fall 2016 (Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar): Chang Cho, Connor McCartney, Steven Moroff
Fall 2015 (Sanofi-Aventis's Tender Offer for Genzyme): Eric Dohn, Gabe Rivera, Nate Oliver, Tyler Hecker
Fall 2014 (Roche Group's Acquisition of Genentech): Jonathan Pamel, Eui-Sun Hwang, Fahim Ahmed
Fall 2013 (CSX's Bid for Conrail): Jennifer Alexy and Mitch Seidman
Fall 2012 (Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas): Jeffrey Marks, Saba Siddiqui, Marisa Sweeney, Jake Weiss, Matthew Abramowitz