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Welcome to the website for the Babson Buyout Association (BBA)

The BBA is a finance oriented student club focused on giving students additional exposure to speakers, forums, events, and networks specifically in the areas of buying a business, Search Funds, Investment Banking, M&A, and middle-market Private Equity. Throughout the academic year the BBA will be hosting a number of speaking events, panels, brown bag lunch learning sessions, and mixers. 

To join the email list to be invited to all our events, and keep up with everything relating to buyouts at Babson, send an email to join-bba@listserv.babson.edu

RECENT EVENTS:

9/28/09 - Information Session on Leveraged Buyouts by Brian Weisberg

10/6/09 - Search Fund Speaker Event by Charles Burckmyer of Knob Hill Partners http://www.knobhillpartners.com/

OUTSIDE EVENTS:

Keep an eye out for events on Exit Planning Exchange. We can sometimes get some students into these events. Email if interested: http://exitplanningexchange.com/

Harvard Finance Conference: November 7, 2009, Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA

University Private Equity Summit: January 28-30, 2010, Salt Lake City, UT: http://www.uventurefund.com/conference.php

INTERESTING OUTSIDE RESOURCES:

Stanford Search Funds Website (best and most complete set of resources on Search Funds) - http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ces/resources/search_funds.html

Harvard Search Funds Website - http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/resources/searchfund.html

For the largest listing of businesses for sale check out http://www.bizbuysell.com

A great online resource on the whole buyout, VC & PE industry, plus sign up for their daily emails: http://www.pehub.com

If you know of other valuable resources or events, please email the BBA leadership team at either sgillispie1@babson.edu or yguo2@babson.edu