Nat Burgess, founder of TechStrat, a sell-side M&A advisory, has been an M&A adviser since 1989, an angel investor and startup mentor since 1994, and a licensed attorney since 1998.
Prior to being appointed chairman of the World Financial Symposium and president of Corum, Nat worked for Morgan Stanley’s M&A group, helped Activision put the first generation of multiplayer games on the Internet, and interned with the enforcement Division of the SEC.
Nat has managed transactions with Microsoft, Google, Intel, Symantec, and many other leading companies across the US, Europe, the Nordics, Asia, and Latin America. He has also raised capital from Vista Equity Partners, Intel Capital, Carlyle Group, Marlin Equity, and many other leading private equity firms. He is a sell-side specialist with a 20+ year focus on technology. His tombstones include many formative transactions in the middle market, including the sale of Ghost to Symantec, the sale of Caligari to Microsoft, and the sale of Instantiations to Google.
Conrad Everhard is the Founding Partner of Flatiron Law Group. Conrad is a thought leader in the legal innovation community with a passion for modernizing the law firm business model.
Conrad has over twenty-five years of experience as a partner at several prominent global law firms, including Jones Day, Greenberg Traurig and Bryan Cave, and as general counsel of a renewable energy start-up. He advises growth oriented and entrepreneurial clients in executing complex capital and intellectual property-driven transactions, with a particular focus on M&A, venture capital and PE deals.
Conrad served for several years as general counsel and a key member of the management team of AE Polysilicon, a venture-backed solar start-up that raised more than $200 million from strategic investors.
Flatiron is a new-generation law firm with a mission of disrupting the Big Law business model. Flatiron offers premium deal work (principally M&A, venture capital, PE and Tech Transactions) on a transparent, fixed fee basis by leveraging both home grown and commercially available digital desktop tools and platforms and by deploying labor and expertise on a general contractor basis.
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