Evercore Investment Banking Pitch Book
Evercore Team
Client Team for M&F Worldwide Special Committee (cont'd)
Jason M. Sobol
Senior Managing Director
New York
Gus Christensen
Managing Director
New York
Jason Sobol is a Senior Managing Director of the firm's corporate advisory business.
Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Sobol was Vice President of Acquisitions for the Davis Companies, the holding company for Marvin Davis-
controlled entities, focusing on private equity and leveraged buyout opportunities primarily in media and entertainment. Mr. Sobol was also a
Principal of the Davis family's venture fund, Stone Canyon Venture Partners. Prior to Davis Companies, Mr. Sobol was Senior Director of
Business Development for LAUNCH.com, which was acquired by Yahool, and prior to that, a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group
of Goldman Sachs & Co.
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Notable sell-side transactions include the sale of LoopNet to CoStar Group, Schoolnet to Pearson, 5Min to AOL, RiskMetrics to MSCI,
Infogroup to CCMP Capital, Angel Learning to Blackboard, BusinessWeek to Bloomberg, Dice.com to a private equity consortium, Ziff
Davis Enterprise to Insight Venture Partners, J.D. Power and Associates to McGraw-Hill, Publishing Group of America to a venture capital
consortium, Jobing.com to Great Hill Partners, the Los Angeles and Midwest newspaper divisions of The Copley Press to MediaNews
Group and GateHouse Media, respectively, Medical World Communications to Ascend Media, Bright Horizons Family Solutions to Bain
Capital and Pan AmSat Corporation to a private equity consortium. Buyside transactions include the acquisition of UpToDate by Wolters
Kluwer, Thomson Leaming by Apax Partners, Houghton Miftlin Higher Education business by Cengage Leaming, Factiva by Dow Jones &
Company and Fitch Group by Hearst Corporation (minority investment). Mr. Sobol has also advised on a broad range of transactions
including IPOs, spin-offs, capital raises, recapitalizations and restructurings.
Mr. Sobol received a B.A. in Economics, with honors, from Harvard University.
Gus Christensen is a Managing Director of the firm's corporate advisory business who advises corporate clients across a wide range
of industries, with a focus on special committees, raid defense and other complex situations.
Prior to joining Evercore, he was an Associate in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Goldman Sachs, Prior to business
school, Mr. Christensen spent six years as a fixed income trader and debt capital markets banker at J.P. Morgan.
While with Evercore, Mr. Christensen has advised clients across a broad range of industries on significant M&A and restructuring
assignments. His transaction experience includes the General Motors restructuring, the sale of Performance Food Group to affiliates
of the Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management, the sale of Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises to Citizens
Communications, and the sale of Insight Communications to the Carlyle Group.
Mr. Christensen received his B.A. with distinction from Yale University and his M.B.A. with honors as a Palmer Scholar from The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
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