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.

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

Networking to find Jobs (not Steve)

One of the most frequently asked questions the C Squared Group receives is whether or not job seekers are welcome at our events.

Some thoughts on this topic:

1 – We at the C Squared Group have a deep appreciation for the challenges that job seekers face in the current market – And there are many ways we can help. However, in order to preserve the integrity and focus of our events, C Squared Group events are strictly closed to job seekers.

2 – The C Squared Group does look to verify employment status of all attendees at our events. This is an imperfect process due to the large number of events that we host. We do ask that all attendees respect these restrictions and we will make sure we continue to improve our screening processes. One way we are doing this is by building out our Host Committee and Brand Ambassador programs.

3 – We are actively developing out a platform to help promote compelling job opportunities to our large and growing audience of qualified professionals. If you are an employer looking to hire, a recruiter looking to promote your available positions, or a job seeker – Please contact us at info@csquaredgroup.com to discuss ways the C Squared Group can be of assistance.

News from the C Squared Group

We've grown - a lot.

What started with a 100 person guest list in November 2007 is now nearly 40,000 people in the NY area!

Our guest list isn't the only thing that has grown - Our events have grown too!

We now have 7 different events that we host on a regular basis. Some are open to all professionals, while others are open to a specific industry only. We host early evening events over cocktails as well as morning events over coffee before the start of the regular work day.

Whether you have joined us before or want to attend for the first time, we hope you will join us in the near future for a C Squared Event.

What is on the calendar for October?

This month, we will be hosting six professional networking events in NY and working on our Boston launch.

Our NY schedule is as follows:

10/14/2008 Contacts & Coffee -- All Industries
10/15/2008 Charity Professionals Networking Night
10/21/2008 Contacts & Champagne – Women’s Series
10/22/2008 Hedge Fund Professionals Event
10/28/2008 Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology Professionals
10/29/2008 Marketing, Advertising, and PR Monthly

Not sure which event is right for you?

Ask us!

We would be happy to help you get situated and guide you towards the event series that is right for you.

Don’t hesitate to e-mail us at info@csquaredgroup.com to discuss this in more detail.

Contacts and Cocktails: Which finance event is right for you?

Market got you down?

In these times of unprecedented tumult in our financial markets, having the right relationships can make all the difference. Please contact Jordan (Jordan@csquaredgroup.com) if you have questions about which of our finance events would be most productive for you.

C Squared Group in Trader Monthly!

The C Squared Group’s New York hedge fund event series was covered in the September 2008 issue of Trader Monthly – Please see below for URL and the text.

C2 Omissions

Despite the proliferation of online social networking, face time remains invaluable. But professional meet-and-greets can be a drag if you have to run a gantlet of retail salesmen just to get a free drink. That's why Jordan Cohen, a former private banker at Deutsche Bank, founded The C Squared Group (csquaredgroup.com), which screens out unwanted riffraff to provide venues for hedge-fund traders and relevant service providers to forge ties without being hit up for business cards by annuity peddlers. The C Squared hedgie soirees are held every other month -- currently in New York, with expansion pending. "Too many of these industry networking events don't screen out real-estate brokers and run-of-the-mill financial advisers," he says. "We do." Plus -- and perhaps most importantly -- C Squared events (which typically run $30 for three to four hours) feature an open bar. We'd like to see you just try to drink your weight in vodka tonics on Facebook.

http://www.traderdaily.com/magazine/article/22040.html

Event Recap: June Hedge Fund Professionals Series

The C Squared Group’s Hedge Fund Professionals Networking Event

New York, NY
June 24, 2008 @ Public House

In excess of 50 people attended The C Squared Group’s second hedge fund professionals networking event. A sample of the companies represented can be found below.

For more details on participating in or sponsoring this series please contact us at sponsors@csquaredgroup.com

Alterama Inc
Bank of America
BOCI
Centrecourt Asset Management
Citigroup
Crawford Ventures, Inc.
Credit Suisse
Far Hills Group
G & S Fund Services (HedgeCo)
Gerson Lehrman Group
GlobeOp Financial Services
Greenwood Walsh Investments, LLC
HCA Associates
Infohedge Technologies
JMP Securities
JP Morgan
Kaufman Brothers
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Lazard Capital Markets
LSI
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
Needham & Co.
Pequot Capital
PRAM
Reliance Capital Management
Shandelee Trading
Silver Point Capital
Spherix Capital
Sterling National Bank
Trader Monthly
Trafelet Delta Funds
UBS
Wedge Alternatives
Withers Bergman LLP

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

Event Recap: Launch of Hedge Fund Professionals Series

LAUNCH of The C Squared Group’s Hedge Fund Professionals Networking Event

New York, NY
May 13, 2008 @ The Night Hotel

Approximately 50 people attended The C Squared Group’s inaugural hedge fund professionals networking event. This was a resounding success given the venue capacity was approximately 40.

A sample of the companies represented can be found below.

For more details on participating in or sponsoring this series please contact us at sponsors@csquaredgroup.com.

Bear Stearns
BNP Paribas
Centrecourt Asset Management
Crawford Ventures, Inc.
Deutsche Bank
DK Partners
Globeop Financial Services
Harbert Mgmt.
Hedge Fund Capital Partners
HSBC Halbis
Infohedge Technologies
Ivy Asset Management
JLS Due Diligence Services Inc
JPMorgan
Knight Capital
Longacre Fund Management
Optima Fund Management
Pepper Hamilton LLP
RBC Capital
Reliance Capital Management
Shinhan Financial Group
Summit Rock Advisors
The Bank of New York Mellon
UBP Asset Managment
UBS
W.A.D. Capital
Weiser LLP
Westwood Capital

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