Upcoming Events and News from C Squared Group

*Upcoming Events
*News from the C Squared Group
*New Event Launches, Expansion of Industry Coverage
*VIP / Premium Events
*Perks

UPCOMING C SQUARED GROUP EVENTS:

February 2009:

2/18- Hedge Fund Professionals Contacts & Cocktails
http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/cocktails/hedge-fund-networking.html

2/19 - All Industries Contacts & Cocktails
http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/cocktails/networking.html

2/24 - Media, Marketing, Advertising and PR Contacts & Cocktails
http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/cocktails/marketing-networking.html

2/25 (am) - Women's Contacts & Coffee
http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/coffee/womens-networking.html

2/25 (pm) - Charity Contacts & Cocktails
http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/charity/networking.html

March 2009:
3/10- LAUNCH of Contacts and Careers (Job Seekers, Hiring Companies, and Recruiters)
3/12- LAUNCH of Fashion Industry Professionals Contacts & Cocktails

Further March dates will be announced shortly. Full details on all NYC events can be found at http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com

** Help us continue to serve the professional community by sharing our events with your peers and colleagues! In these uncertain economic times, we are committed to helping you achieve your professional goals.

NEWS FROM THE C SQUARED GROUP:

(1) Call for Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and Financial Services Host Committee Members
(2) Launch of Contacts & Careers Series (March 10th)
(3) Launch of Fashion Industry Professionals Contacts & Cocktails (March 12th)
(4) Expanding Our Industry Coverage
(5) VIP / Premium Events for Finance, Legal, and Real Estate Professionals
(6) C Squared Group Perks

(1) Call for Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and Financial Services Host Committee Members:

The C Squared Group is looking for well connected professionals from the hedge fund, private equity, and financial services community with an interest in getting involved with our industry events. Please e-mail Jordan (jordan@csquaredgroup.com) to discuss this in more detail.

(2) Launch of Contacts & Careers:

In a little over a month, we will be launching our Contacts & Careers Series. All job seekers, professionals looking to explore new career opportunities, hiring companies, and recruiters are encouraged to attend. Please help spread the word and e-mail us (events@csquaredgroup.com) to discuss ways you can get involved.

(3) Launch of Fashion Industry Professionals Contacts & Cocktails:

The C Squared Group is actively expanding its footprint here in New York. On March 12th, we will be launching Contacts & Cocktails for Fashion Industry Professionals. If you are interested in getting involved in this series, please e-mail us at info@csquaredgroup.com.

(4) Expanding Our Industry Coverage:

Is your industry not covered by our existing roster of events? Are there other events we should consider assembling? Over the course of 2009, we are looking to expand the number of industries we cover. We are currently considering events for commercial real estate professionals, healthcare investors, commodities and natural resources professionals, sports industry professionals, media/entertainment investors, and fixed income professionals. Please e-mail us (events@csquaredgroup.com) to discuss getting involved.

(5) VIP / Premium Events for Finance, Legal, and Real Estate Professionals:

Are you interested in being invited to smaller, more selective events with a substantially more senior audience? If you are the CEO, Principal, Partner, Founder, or Managing Director of a successful and established business, we would like to hear from you. Please e-mail Jordan (jordan@csquaredgroup.com) to discuss further. If you know somebody that should be included, please forward this e-mail or have them contact us directly.

(6) C Squared Group Perks:

Legal Services:

Shelowitz & Associates PLLC is offering C Squared Group members a 1 hour free consultation and a 10% fee discount on legal services.

For more information contact:

Shelowitz & Associates PLLC / Mitch Shelowitz
Tel: +1-646-839-4621
Email: mshelowitz@salaws.com
Web: www.salaws.com

Fitness and Spa Perk:

Receive a complimentary 3 day guest pass to Equinox Fitness when you mention C Squared Group at the 63rd Street and Lexington location. Whether you want to escape the winter chill in the Eucalyptus steam room or just work out, we hope you will enjoy this perk. Email trevor.connolly@equinoxfitness.com for more information.

Interested in offering your PERK to our 35,000+ Manhattan based professionals? Email perks@csquaredgroup.com for program details.

C Squared Events this Week

The C Squared Group is pleased to announce its final three professional networking events for 2008. Details can be found below.Please don’t hesitate to let us know (info@csquaredgroup.com) if you have any questions.

1) Contacts & Cocktails - Marketing, Advertising and PR Professionals http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/cocktails/marketing-networking.html

2) Contacts & Cocktails - Private Equity, Venture Capital and Angel Investors http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/cocktails/private-equity-vc-networking.html

3) Contacts & Coffee - Morning Networking Event for Women.http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com/coffee/womens-networking.html

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The C Squared Group cordially invites you to our December Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations Industry Networking Event.To maintain focus, this event is STRICTLY LIMITED to professionals in these fields.

Job Seekers and other solicitors are NOT WELCOME and will be denied admission.

Date: December 16th, 2008
Time: 6:00PM to 9:00PM
Venue: Audrey Café & Lounge at W New York - The Tuscany (120 East 39th Street)
Vodka Open Bar from 6:00-7:00 for all guests, Light appetizers will be available
$20 in advance, $30 at the door

This invitation is transferable to friends and colleagues considered to be established professionals. Feel free to pass this invitation along to established NYC-based professionals in the designated industries.

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The C Squared Group cordially invites you to another installment of our Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Angel Investor Networking Event Series.Attendees for this event are limited to:
• Private Equity and Venture Capital Professionals
• Investment Banking Professionals with Private Equity / Venture Capital Coverage Responsibilities
• Family Offices and other Principal Investors

This event is strictly closed to
(1) companies seeking capital
(2) wealth managers and financial advisors
(3) ALL brokers and solicitors
(4) people not actively employed in the Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Investment Banking industry.

Job Seekers are NOT welcome and will be denied entry to this event.

A valid business card is required for admission.We hope that you will join us and help spread the word to others that are established professionals that fit the above criteria.

Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.Please make sure to RSVP / buy tickets early to reserve space.

Venue: Haven New York (244 East 51st Street)
Tickets: $20 in advance, $30 at the doorDate /
Time: December 17th / 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Open Bar: Vodka Open Bar for all guests from 6:30pm – 7:30pm

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The C Squared Group cordially invites you to another installment of our Contacts & Coffee Networking Event Series for WOMEN ONLY on December 18th at the Audrey Café & Lounge at W New York - The Tuscany (120 East 39th Street).

Contacts & Coffee is designed to facilitate professional networking between a diverse group of established and successful professionals before the start of the regular work day. This event is open to PROFESSIONAL WOMEN ONLY.

This event is STRICLY CLOSED to job seekers – A valid business card is required for admission.Lots of coffee (and some snacks) will be provided – Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to meet as many people as possible. We are willing and able to help facilitate introductions at the event.

Date: December 18th, 2008
Time: 7:30am – 9:30amVenue: Audrey Café & Lounge at W New York - The Tuscany (120 East 39th Street)
Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door

This invitation is transferable – Please feel free to pass this along to anybody else that might benefit.

Event Recap: Hedge Fund Professionals Networking Event

Another large crowd attended The C Squared Group’s Hedge Fund Professionals networking event on December 9th at Brasserie 360.

This series is strictly for hedge fund professionals, sales traders, prime brokers, and formation attorneys.

Guest lists are monitored by our team and numerous people (including job seekers, service providers, solicitors, and people not in the hedge fund business) are turned away in advance and at the door.

This screening is a critical part of the C Squared Group process and keeps our events highly exclusive and productive for our guests.

A sample of the companies represented on December 9th can be found below. For more details on participating in or sponsoring this series please contact us at info@csquaredgroup.com.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Altura Capital
Amadei Investors
Bacolet Capital
Cabrera Capital Markets
Citigroup Alternatives
Crawford Ventures, Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities
D.B.Zwirn
DE Shaw
Deutsche Bank Securities
Elk River Trading, LLC
Fertilemind Capital
Five Prime Advisors
Fortress / Drawbridge Global Macro
Galvin Asset Management
Geneva-Roth Ventures
Herrick, Feinstein LLP
Huston Associates, Inc.
ICM
IKB Capital
Inflection Capital
Intaglio Capital Management
Kohera Capital
Koshdan Capital
Levi Lubarsky & Feigenbaum LLP
LibertyView Capital Management
Morgan Keegan
Nobilis Capital
Parker Global Strategies
Quaker Hill Capital Management LLC
Rainier Absolute Return Fund
Reliance Capital Management
Sloan Securities Corp.
SMB Capital
Trader Monthly
Venor Capital Management

The above named organizations are not official sponsors of our events and are not affiliated with the C Squared Group LLC.

Event Recap: Private Equity / Venture Capital / Angel Investor Event

A large group of investors attended the launch of The C Squared Group’s Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Angel Investors networking event on November 19th at Audrey Cafe & Lounge at W New York - The Tuscany.

As with many of our other events, this is a closed series with attendance limited to:

• Private Equity and Venture Capital Professionals
• Investment Banking Professionals with Private Equity / Venture Capital Coverage Responsibilities
• Family Offices and other Principal Investors

Guest lists are monitored by our team and numerous people (including companies seeking capital, job seekers, service providers, solicitors, and people not in the private equity / venture capital business) are turned away in advance and at the door.

This screening is a critical part of the C Squared Group process and keeps our events highly exclusive and productive for our guests.

A sample of the companies represented on November 19th can be found below. For more details on participating in or sponsoring this series please contact us at info@csquaredgroup.com.

Alston & Bird LLP
Altura Capital
Applied Innovation International LLC
Ardour Capital
Azure Capital Partners
Chart Capital Partners
Crucible Capital Group
Davis Capital Management, LLC
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Eisner LLP
Empire Capital Partners
Financial Summit Ventures, Inc.
FirstMark Capital
Five Prime Advisors
Global Infrastructure Partners
HSBC Alternatives
Iroquois Capital Opportunity Fund
KOTRA
Levi Lubarsky & Feigenbaum LLP
Liquidity Works Inc.
Near Earth LLC
Pomona Capital
Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP
Reliance Realty Partners
Rodman & Renshaw
Silver Point Capital
Silverline Partners
Sumitomo Bank
The Carlyle Group
TTI
Westbrook Capital, LLC

The above named organizations are not official sponsors of our events and are not affiliated with the C Squared Group LLC.

Event Recap: Hedge Fund Professionals Networking Event

In excess of 100 people attended The C Squared Group’s October Hedge Fund Professionals Networking Event at Audrey Café & Lounge at W New York – The Tuscany. This was our largest and most successful Hedge Fund event to date.

This series is strictly for hedge fund professionals. Guest lists are monitored by our team and numerous people (including job seekers, solicitors, and people not in the hedge fund business) are turned away in advance and at the door. This keeps our events highly exclusive and productive for our guests.

A sample of the companies represented on October 22nd can be found below. For more details on sponsoring this series please contact us at sponsors@csquaredgroup.com

Alliance Bernstein
Alston & Bird LLP
Amadei Investors
AQR Capital Management
Avalon Ventures
Ballista Securities
Barclays Capital
Bayrock Group LLC
Chardan Capital Markets
Chatsworth Securities LLC
Citi Fixed Income Alternatives
Citigroup
Crawford Ventures, Inc.
D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P.
Dahlman Rose
DCCI Interests
Deutsche Bank
DHL Capital
Dolomite Capital Management
Elk River Trading
Frias Financial
Gottex Funds Management
Gratia Plena Parnters
Hardt Group
IKB Capital
Infinity Funding Group
Iron Mountain Capital Partners
Jefferies Asset Management
JNS Capital Partners
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Lehman Brothers Hedge Advisor
LibertyView Capital Management
Mansion Partners
Merrill Lynch
Montcalm Partners
Morgan Keegan
Morgan Stanley
Mountain Lake Group
Neuberger Investment Management
Oracle Investment Management
Parker Global Strategies
Reliance Capital Management
Risk-AI, LLC
SAC Capial
Schulte Roth & Zabel
SilverPoint Capital
Simpson Capital
Solas Capital
Stratton Management Company
Tandem Global Partners
Tiger 21
Trader Monthly
Trillium Trading
UBP Asset Management
Venor Capital Management
Vericon Capital Advisors
Welch Capital Partners
WhiteRock Group

The above named organizations are not official sponsors of our events and are not affiliated with the C Squared Group LLC.

Contacts & Cocktails - Hedge Fund Professionals Networking Event

The C Squared Group (www.csquaredgroup.com) is hosting one of its flagship networking events for Hedge Fund Professionals in New York this Wednesday evening (10/22).

This event is only open to professionals in the hedge fund industry. This event IS STRICTLY CLOSED to job seekers. Further restrictions are below.

Full details on this event are below. Please also check http://nyc.csquaredgroup.com for the latest calendar of events from The C Squared Group.

The C Squared Group cordially invites you another installment of Hedge Fund Industry Networking Event Series.

Attendees for this event are limited to:
• Hedge Fund and Fund of Fund Professionals
• Investment Banking and Sales / Trading Professionals with Hedge Fund Coverage Responsibilities
• Family Offices, Hedge Fund Investors, Hedge Fund Lawyers / Compliance Officers, and Diligence Specialists

This event is strictly closed to (1) solicitors (2) wealth managers and financial advisors (3) mortgage, insurance, and real estate brokers and (4) people not actively employed in the Hedge Fund Industry.

We hope that you will join us and help spread the word to others that are established professionals that fit the above criteria. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.

Please make sure to RSVP / buy tickets at nyc.csquaredgroup.com to reserve space.

Venue: Audrey Café & Lounge at W New York - The Tuscany (120 East 39th Street)

Tickets: $20 in advance, $30 at the door

Date / Time: October 22nd / 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Open Bar: Vodka Open Bar for all guests from 7:00pm -8:00pm

Please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@csquaredgroup.com with any questions or thoughts you may have.

Partner with The C Squared Group

As a member of the C Squared Group community (http://www.csquaredgroup.com/) we’d like you to have a first look at some opportunities to get involved.

On a regular basis, we are highlighting these opportunities in the hope that we can work more closely with some of you.

Please let us know if it is beneficial for you (or your firm) to work alongside us in the following capacities:

Midtown Conference / Meeting Room Space for Morning Events:
We are looking for a number of midtown based firms to partner with us in hosting morning networking events. Our Contacts and Coffee series can either be:

• Content Based: These are generally panel discussions and other morning content events for a variety of different industries. These range from 20-50 people and are carefully designed to integrate both content and networking into a session before the start of the work day.

• Unstructured Networking: Free form networking over coffee before the start of the regular work day. These events typically draw 40+ established professionals.

Sponsoring firms that partner with us will receive:

• Prominent placement of logos on our invites – These reach well in excess of 50,000 New Yorkers directly

• Mention as a title sponsor for the event

• Ability to have promotional materials and representatives at the event

• Preference for inclusion on panels (if expertise is relevant)

Please contact Jordan (jordan@csquaredgroup.com) with any ideas you may have.

Host Committee/Brand Ambassadors:
We are actively looking for approximately 8 Host Committee/Brand Ambassadors for each of our industry events. Please email us at info@csquaredgroup.com answering the following questions if this is of interest:

1. Can you tell us about your company / practice? What is your role?
2. Have you been to a C Squared Group event before? Do you regularly attend networking events produced by any other group?
3. Do you have any concrete thoughts on how we increase visibility for our industry events (in particular, the events relevant to your industry)?
4. Would you be able to assist with forming a marketing and content strategy for your specific industry?
   

Sponsorship Sales:
Do you have relationships with sponsors that might have an interest in reaching a large (and rapidly growing) community of professionals? If so, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at sales@csquaredgroup.com to discuss ways that we can collaborate.

Venues:
Our venue needs continue to grow with our roster of monthly events. We prefer to stay in midtown although we are happy to travel for the right venue. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any venue ideas you may have at venues@csquaredgroup.com.

Technology Development Work:
Although we handle all of our design (and most of our technology) in house, we do have some simple custom technology work that we need done. We would like to barter exposure and sponsorship to defray some of the cost. Please contact us to discuss in more detail at tech@csquaredgroup.com.

Event Volunteers:
Many of our events have staffing needs. If you have an interest in event planning and would like to volunteer, please let us know. We are always happy to consider larger opportunities for individuals with serious interest. Please e-mail us at volunteers@csquaredgroup.com to discuss further.

If it is beneficial for you (or your firm) to work alongside us, we look forward to discussing a mutually beneficial partnership.

Please contact us to discuss any of these further.

Many Thanks,

-The C Squared Group