Marc Golden
(Senior Advisor)
- At the time he helped co-found TechSpin, Marc Golden had been for
17 years, and he remains today, president of the Golden Group of
Companies, acting as advisor to inventors/patent holders in need
of assistance in commercializing their intellectual property. . Marc
has guided the process by which target market(s) and candidate licensee(s)
are identified; conducted proprietary processes for inventors seeking
best-use licensees and maximum royalties; and managed licensing negotiations.
In addition, Marc has advised on Merger & Acquisition matters,
participating in all phases of the client’s process from conceptualization
through execution. Marc has a specialty in complex transactions taking
place under extraordinary constraints, with emphasis on getting deals
done.
- Previously, Mr. Golden spent approximately five years working
as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was
a vice president in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department, and
then at the investment banking arm of Prudential-Bache Securities,
Inc., where he was a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions
Department, founding head of the Takeover Defense and Recapitalization
Group and the Corporate Control Planning Group, and a member of the
policy-setting Mergers & Acquisitions Committee. In these roles,
Marc specialized in helping public companies prepare for and respond
to contested takeover offers. While at Goldman Sachs, Marc had sole
supervisory responsibility for the firm's number one-ranked takeover
defense business, and oversaw the growth of this business from a
25% market share to a 40% market share. While at Prudential, Marc
had a supervisory role with respect to the strategy and direction,
as well as the individual assignment execution, of Prudential-Bache's
sixty-five person mergers and acquisitions advisory business. This
role included recruiting and training several key junior, and senior,
colleagues; senior responsibility for publicity and press relations;
several appearances in various national news media and at symposia
and seminars; and responsibility for relationships with outside attorneys.
At Goldman Sachs and Prudential-Bache, Marc worked with CEOs, CFOs
and Boards of Directors of hundreds of client companies, including
representatives from all major industry groups. He also met with
and provided assistance to the architects of proposed tender offer
reform legislation in the United States Congress.
- Before becoming
an investment banker, Mr. Golden spent five years as a corporate
finance attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where
he negotiated mergers and divestitures, represented underwriters
and issuers in domestic and Eurodollar public offerings and private
placements, and structured financing in special situations.
- Mr. Golden
received a BA magna cum laude in Administrative Sciences from Yale
College, an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard
Business School, and a JD from Harvard Law School.
