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George Boutros
George Boutros joined Qatalyst in June 2010. Prior to joining Qatalyst, George was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse where he most recently served as Chairman of its Global Technology Group and Chairman of its Global Healthcare Group, and also served as Vice Chairman of its Corporate and Investment Banking department. Prior to that, George held a number of positions with Credit Suisse, including Co-Head of Global Technology Banking and Co-Head of Global Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 1998, George was a Managing Director with Deutsche Bank Securities and Head of its Technology Group's Global Mergers & Acquisitions activities. Prior to Deutsche Bank, George was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, heading M&A activities in the western United States.
George has 25 years of investment banking experience and has advised on more than 350 completed transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, hostile takeovers, takeover defenses, leveraged buyouts, financings, stock buybacks, spinoffs and leveraged recapitalizations. George advised Alcatel-Lucent on the sale of its Genesys business to a private equity consortium for $1.5B, Ascend on its $3.7B acquisition of Cascade and its subsequent sale to Lucent for $24B, Atheros on its sale to Qualcomm for $3.6B, ATIC (the technology investment arm of the Government of Abu Dhabi) on its acquisition of Chartered Semiconductor for $3.1B, The Blackstone Group on its $17.6B acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor, Google on its acquisitions of YouTube for $1.7B and DoubleClick for $3.1B, Intel on its $950MM acquisition of Wind River Systems, Isilon on its sale to EMC for $2.6B, Motorola Mobility on its pending sale to Google for $12.5B, MySQL on its $1.0B sale to Sun Microsystems, National Semiconductor on its sale to Texas Instruments for $6.5B, Netezza on its $1.9B sale to IBM, NetLogic on its pending sale to Broadcom for $3.9B, Pixar on its sale to Disney for $7.4B, Sun Microsystems on its sale to Oracle for $7.1B, Taleo on its pending $2.1B sale to Oracle, VERITAS on its $20B acquisition of Seagate Technology (and spinout of the disk drive business to Silver Lake) and 3PAR on its $2.4B sale to HP. George has also advised companies such as Adobe, Alcatel, AMCC, Apple, Aspect Development, Atmel, Bay Networks, Cascade, C-Cube, Cerent, Chromatis, Conexant, Chiron, Cypress Semiconductor, Dow Chemical, DuPont Photomasks, The Gartner Group, Genentech, Golden Gate Capital, Infor, Intuit, Jamdat, KLA-Tencor, Komag, Lam Research, Linear Technology, Lucent, Lockheed, Mattel, McKesson, MMC Networks, National Semiconductor, Netscape, Nortel Networks, PeopleSoft, Philips Electronics, Pliant Technology, PMC-Sierra, PureAtria, Rackspace, Riot Games, SandForce, Siara Systems, Siemens, Submarino, SynOptics, Synopsys, Tellabs, Ticketmaster, Vantive, Varian Semiconductor, VeriFone, Verisign, Vista Equity, and WebTV.
George received his B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.B.A. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
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atalyst’s advisors combine an extensive network of relationships with deep industry knowledge and seasoned transaction expertise to deliver a superior, senior level of service for clients who value experience, judgment, candor and insight. In addition to merger and acquisition advice, Qatalyst Partners employs its team’s extensive corporate finance and capital markets experience to advise companies on capital structure and capital raising alternatives, and selectively raises private capital for clients.
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