Evercore Investment Banking Pitch Book
Evercore Team
Client Team for M&F Worldwide Special Committee
Eduardo G. Mestre
Vice Chairman
New York
Jonathan A. Knee
Senior Managing Director
New York
Eduardo Mestre is Vice Chairman of Evercore Partners with responsibility for the management of the firm's advisory practice. Prior
to joining Evercore in November of 2004, Mr. Mestre was a Vice Chairman of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Chairman of its
Investment Banking Division. Mr. Mestre was head of investment banking at Salomon Smith Bamey and its predecessor firms from
1995-2001 and co-head of Salomon Brothers' mergers and acquisitions department from 1989-1995.
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Since joining Evercore, Mr. Mestre has represented Frontier in its acquisition of Verizon's rural access lines; ACS in its sale to Xerox;
MGM Mirage in its financial restructuring SBC in its acquisition of AT&T, AT&T in its acquisition of BellSouth; CSX in its proxy
contest with activist investors; Cendant in its reorganization and in the sale of its Travelport subsidiary to Blackstone; Realogy in its
sale to Apollo; Sequa in its sale to Carlyle, Performance Food Group in its sale to Blackstone and Wellspring and GM in its sale of
GMAC to Cerberus.
Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Mestre represented, among others, Amgen in its acquisition of Immunex; AOL in its merger with Time
Wamer, Citigroup in its acquisition of Banamex, Mexico's largest bank; News Corporation in its acquisition of Hughes; SBC in its
acquisition of Ameritech; Pacific Telesis in its sale to SBC; and Northrop Grumman in its mergers with Litton, Grumman and TRW.
Mr. Mestre's outside activities include serving as past Chairman of the Board of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, one of the nation's
leading cancer, genetics and neuroscience research and educational institutions, and past Chairman of WNYC, New York's public
radio stations. Mr. Mestre also serves on the Board of Directors of the Avis Budget Group, Inc. and Comcast Corporation.
Prior to joining Salomon Brothers in 1977, Mr. Mestre was an associate with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Mr.
Mestre graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1970 with a B.A. degree in Economics and Political
Science and is a 1973 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
Jonathan Knee is a Senior Managing Director in our advisory business with 17 years of relevant experience.
Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of the Media Group at Morgan Stanley. He was previously
Publishing Sector Head in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Since joining Evercore, Mr.
Knee has advised LoopNet on its sale to CoStar Group, Schoolnet on its sale to Pearson, RiskMetrics on its to sale to MSCI, infoGROUP
on its sale to CCMP Capital, Apax Partners on its acquisition of Thomson Learning and the follow-on Houghton Mifflin College division,
NTL on its acquisition of Telewest, VNU N.V. on its sale to a private equity consortium, Freedom Communications on its recapitalization,
The Hearst Corporation on its multiple investments in Fitch Ratings, Dow Jones on its purchase of CBS MarketWatch, Business Week on
its sale to Bloomberg and J.D. Power and Associates on its sale to McGraw-Hill, among others. Mr. Knee is currently an Adjunct Professor
at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions and Media Strategy and serves
as the Director of the Media Program.
Mr. Knee currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Art Connection, Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, National
Women's Law Center, New Alternatives for Children and the Yale Law School Fund. Mr. Knee has a J.D. from Yale University, an M.B.A.
from Stanford University, an M.Sc. from Trinity College Dublin and a B.A. from Boston University.
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