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Claire E. McAdams
SUMMARY BIOGRAPHY AND TRANSACTION HISTORY
Employment/Education History
- Headgate Partners LLC; Founder and Managing Partner
- Launched in 2005, Headgate is an investor relations, business development and strategic consulting firm focused on the semiconductor and component manufacturing industry
- WR Hambrecht + Co; Managing Director
- Senior member of semiconductor banking team; January 2004 – June 2005
- SoundView Technology Group; Managing Director
- Built and led successful semiconductor equipment and manufacturing investment banking franchise over nearly eight years at the firm
- Joined June 1996; became Managing Director January 2001
- Firm acquired by Schwab in January 2004
- Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.; Investment banking group; July 1994 – June 1996
- Claremont McKenna College; BA in Economics and Literature, with honors, 1994
Industry Focus
- Specialization in component manufacturing since 1997
- Primarily semiconductors, with significant carry-over into related industries such as data storage, LEDs, solar, photonics, MEMS and flat-panel displays
- Particular expertise in capital equipment, with substantial experience in manufacturing services (foundries, OSAT), advanced materials, masks, fabless semiconductors, EDA and manufacturing software/IP
- Global client base; significant business throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe
Completed Public Financings Since 1999
At Headgate Partners:
- Nanometrics – 2009 follow-on
- Kulicke & Soffa – 2009 follow-on
- Credence Systems – 2008 debt re-financing
As an Investment Banker:
- ChipMOS – 2004 follow-on
- SMIC – 2004 IPO
- Tessera – 2003 IPO
- ChipPAC – 2002 follow-on
- Ibis Technology – 2002 follow-on
- Cree – 2001 follow-on
- Rudolph Tech – 2001 follow-on
- ASE Inc – 2000 U.S. IPO
- AXT – 2000 follow-on
- UMC – 2000 U.S. IPO
- ASE Test – 2000 follow-on
- Siliconware Precision – 2000 IPO
- Brooks Automation – 2000 follow-on
- Mattson – 2000 follow-on
- EMCORE – 2000 follow-on
- Nanometrics – 2000 follow-on
- Photon Dynamics – 2000 follow-on
- EMCORE – 1999 follow-on
- Chartered Semi – 1999 IPO
- Ibis Technology – 1999 follow-on
- ASTeX – 1999 follow-on
- Veeco Instruments – 1999 follow-on
Closed M&A Transactions
At Headgate Partners:
- For Nanometrics:
- 2009 cash acquisition of Zygo’s Semiconductor Solutions business
- 2008 cash acquisition of Tevet
- 2007 divestiture of DiVA product line
- 2007 divestiture of CD-SEM assets and IP
- 2006 cash acquisition of Soluris
- 2006 stock acquisition of Accent Optical
- For Intevac:
- 2010 cash acquisition of Solar Implant Technologies
- 2008 cash acquisition of Oerlikon’s disk media equipment business
- 2007 cash acquisition of Creative Display Systems
- For PDF Solutions:
- Consulted on 2006 acquisition of Si Automation
As an Investment Banker:
- Advisor to Boxer Cross (metrology equipment), sold to Applied Materials 2003
- Advisor to New Vision Systems (process control software), sold to Inficon January 2003
- Advisor to SEMY Engineering (process control software), sold to Brooks Automation 2001
- Advisor to Obsidian (CMP equipment), sold to Applied Materials 1999
- Advisor to AG Associates (RTP equipment), sold to Steag Microtech 1999
Completed Private Placements
- Applied Photonics (FPD laser cutting equipment) – $7 million closed October 2005
- Innovative Micro Technologies (MEMS foundry) – $17 million closed January 2005
- n&k Technology (semiconductor metrology equipment) – 1999
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