James A. Runde is a Special Advisor of Morgan Stanley.
Until January 2004, Mr. Runde was a Vice Chairman, responsible for investment banking relationships with a wide variety of the Firm’s clients.
In the past 34 years, he has been responsible for restructuring, privatization, mergers and financing for airlines, airports, postal, logistics, railroad, shipping, trucking and waste companies around the world.
Mr. Runde currently serves on the Board of Directors of Kroger, one of the largest retail/grocery companies in the United States.
Mark is a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s Mergers and Acquisitions Department. Mark joined the firm in 1993 and works on all types of merger, acquisition and restructuring transactions across a wide variety of industries.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mark spent six years in Merrill Lynch’s Mergers and Acquisitions Department in both New York and London. Mark has a BA from Harvard University.
Lawrence Hamdan is Vice Chairman of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions group of Credit Suisse. He is a member of the Americas Advisory Council of the Investment Banking department. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Investment Banking Committee (IBC), which renders formal opinions and advice to the Bank's clients.
Mr. Hamdan joined the Bank in 1989 and became a Managing Director in 1998. He previously served as the global co-head of the General Industrial & Services Group, the largest industry group in the Investment Banking department at the time.
Mr. Hamdan has worked on more than $200 billion in transactions and has advised on nearly $500 billion through his leadership of IBC. These include the $12 billion hostile defense of TRW and subsequent sale to Northrop Grumman; GE's NBC division $14 billion stock/cash acquisition of Vivendi Universal Entertainment; the $12 billion hostile defense of AMP; Alcoa's $5 billion unsolicited takeover of Reynolds Metals; the $3 billion sale of York International to Johnson Controls; the $2 billion stock merger of Goodrich and Coltec; the $2 billion stock merger of Pulte and Del Webb; the $2 billion sale of Dal-Tile to Mohawk; several billion dollar acquisitions for Coca-Cola Enterprises and numerous acquisitions for The Home Depot. He has advised on several ground-breaking cross-border transactions including Evraz's $4 billion acquisition of Ipsco Tubulars and $2.3 billion acquisition of Oregon Steel (the largest Russian acquisition in the U.S.), UnionBanCal's $4 billion minority buy-in by Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ (the largest bank minority buy-in) as well as Philip Morris International's $5 billion acquisition of Sampoerna in Indonesia (the largest Southeast Asian deal). His representation of TRW was named M&A Deal of the Year by both Investment Dealers' Digest and Institutional Investor as well as is a Harvard Business School finance case.
Mr. Hamdan received an A.B. Degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, a J.D. Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. Degree with highest distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
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