J.P.Morgan Investment Banking Pitch Book
APPENDIX
Ben Lett
Managing Director, New York
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mr. Lett has been a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group since 1997 in a broad variety of M&A roles. He has
had responsibility for supervising merger and acquisitions and related strategic advisory work in a number of
different sectors including real estate, technology and oil and gas. He also has substantial experience on numerous
financing transactions. For six years Mr. Lett managed a retail start-up funded by Cardinal Capital of Dallas Texas.
Mr. Lett graduated from Vanderbilt University (1986-1990) with an B.A. Degree in Political Science and
Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management (1995-1997) with an MBA.
■ Silver Lake Partners on its $10.8bn acquisition of SunGard Data Systems
■ Investcorp on its acquisition of CCC Information Services Group
■ Computer Associates on its acquisition of Netegrity
Avaya on its acquisition of Tenovis
■ EMC on its acquisition of SMARTS
■IBM its $2.1B divestiture of HHD
■Lucent on its $600 million divestiture of Kenan Systems
■Avaya on its acquisition of Expanets
■ Sungard on the acquisition of Comdisco
■Agere on its divestiture of its WiFi Systems division
■Network Associates on its $1.0bn dollar acquisition of McAffe.com
■ Network Associates on its acquisition of Entercept Software
■ Network Associates on its sale of Magic Software
■ Network Associates on its sale of Sniffer (Network General)
■Motorola on its acquisition of Next Level Communications
■Mercator Software its successful defense of an unsolicited bid from SSH
■ Conoco Inc. on its $6.3 bn acquisition of Gulf Canada Resources
■ Conoco Inc. on its acquisition of Gulf Indonesia Resources
■ Phillips Petroleum Company in its $36 bn merger-of-equals with Conoco Inc.
■ Exxon on its $86 billion merger with Mobil
■ Pioneer on its acquisition of Evergreen
■ Plains Resources on its acquisition of Nuevo
■ Ocean Energy's $1.3 billion merger with Seagull Energy
■ Telecom Italia (SEAT Pagine Gialle) on its unsolicited offer for NetCreations
■ Bethlehem Steel on its successful defense of an unsolicited bid
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