Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2019 Edition

www.finance-monthly.com 21 FINANCE MONTHLY DEAL MAKER AWARDS 2019 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS CONTACT Ralf Philipp Hofmann Managing Partner & Member of the Global Executive Committee Email: ralf.hofmann@drakestar.com Tel: +49 89 1490 265 10 FIRM PROFILE Drake Star Partners is a global investment banking firm serving the technology, media and communications sectors (TMC) with offices in New York, London, Paris, Munich, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Amsterdam, Geneva and Tokyo. The firm focuses on M&A and corporate finance for its clients worldwide. Drake Star Partners completed over 300 transactions since 2004, 70% of which are cross- border. RALF PHILIPP HOFMANN Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Drake Star Partners ABOUT RALF PHILIPP HOFMANN Ralf Philipp Hofmann is Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Drake Star Partners, Member of the Group’s Executive Committee and CEO of Drake Star Germany. Ralf is an award-winning investment banker whose experience spans both domestic and cross-border M&A, private equity transactions, growth equity and debt transactions, IPOs, public secondary and PIPE transactions across Europe, the US and Asia. Previously, Ralf co-founded LD&A Jupiter, one of Drake Star’s predecessors. Prior to the formation of Drake Star Partners and LD&A Jupiter, Ralf was Managing Director and Head of Technology Investment Banking at the successor of SG Cowen Germany and Co- Founder and CFO of a technology start-up. Ralf began his career in Global Investment Banking at Morgan Grenfell, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank in London and Frankfurt, focusing on cross-border M&A and Equity Capital Markets transactions. Ralf holds a Diplom-Kaufmann from Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and studied at Gothenburg University, School of Business, Economics and Law (ERASMUS scholarship) and Stony Brook University, New York. TRANSACTION REPORT Drake Star Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Elgato Gaming on its sale to market leader CORSAIR, as part of a structured and highly competitive global sell-side process. Elgato Gaming designs and develops the world’s leading products for content creation, offering the most complete, and advanced, product line-up to get online and streaming, including software that enables creators to easily record, upload, and livestream professional content. CORSAIR is world leader in providing high-performance PC peripherals and components to gamers, enthusiasts and eSports athletes. CORSAIR operates in over sixty countries, providing high-end technology on a global scale. The acquisition of Elgato Gaming gives CORSAIR an unprecedented opportunity to enter the increasingly popular streaming market and will provide Elgato Gaming with a perfect partner to continue to expand globally and increase market share. Combined with CORSAIR’s best- selling range of gaming hardware, CORSAIR and Elgato Gaming are ideally placed to offer exciting new streaming solutions that revolutionize the entertainment experience for creators and viewers alike. “Elgato Gaming designs and develops the world’s leading products for content creation. This transaction was met with strong interest from global marketplayers and we are pleased that with CORSAIR, Elgato Gaming has found a strong partner for its continued international expansion”, said Ralf Philipp Hofmann, Managing Partner & Member of the Global Executive Committee at Drake Star Partners. Drake Star Partners leveraged its global network to reach out to category leaders in the consumer electronics industry. Based on its profound expertise and transaction execution skills, combined with global reach, Drake Star Partners executed a highly successful transaction at attractive terms with a very favourable outcome for all parties involved. Awarded for his involvement in the following transaction: Elgato Gaming sells business to Corsair

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