Association for Corporate Growth Philadelphia is pleased to present the 3^rd annual ACG Philadelphia Cup. Launched in 2007, the Philadelphia Cup is a highly realistic private equity/investment banking case study contest that will present a total of $25,000 in awards to MBA students representing some of the top MBA programs in the greater Philadelphia area.

Competing teams will be drawn from leading Philadelphia business schools:

• Drexel University's LeBow College of Business
• La Salle University School of Business
• Penn State University's Smeal College of Business
• Temple University's Fox School of Business
• Saint Joseph's University Haub School of Business
• University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
• Villanova School of Business

The contest, which is open exclusively to MBA and MS Finance students attending the universities, will start with first-round competitions to be held on-campus at each school. Each team will analyze and present their solutions and recommendations to a complex business case that requires a combination of corporate strategy, finance and valuation skills. This year the case will be a classic buy side investment banking scenario.

The top team from each school's first-round contest will then move into the "ACG Philadelphia Cup" finals to be held on Thursday, April 2, 2009.

About ACG

Today ACG stands at over 12,000 members from corporations, private equity, finance, and professional service firms representing Fortune 500, Fortune1000, FTSE 100, and mid-market companies in 53 chapters in North America and Europe. Leaders in corporations, private equity, finance, and professional service firms focused on building value in their organizations belong to ACG. They recognize the multiple benefits of networking within an influential community of executives growing public and private companies worldwide.

ACG Philadelphia (www.acg.org/philadelphia), which is one of the largest of ACG's chapters, hosts high-quality educational programs and the networking opportunities to meet the needs of the corporate growth and M&A community in the Greater Philadelphia region. These include monthly Executive Briefings, Corporate Development Roundtables and semi-annual Private Equity DealMakers' Workshops along with the annual M&A East Conference attended by 1,200 dealmakers and M&A professionals from across the country.