Gurpreet Chandhoke

Gurpreet Chandhoke - Co-Producer, Executive Producer known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Jeepers Creepers 3» (2017), «Blaze» (2018), «72 Hours» (2024),

Gurpreet S. Chandhoke is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of VII Peaks Capital, LLC, launched in April 2009. At VII Peaks, Chandhoke has more than 10 years of professional investment management experience. Between late 2015 and early 2016, he served on the Board of Directors and Special Committee to restructure and bring Relativity Media LLC, with approximately $1 billion of debt, out of bankruptcy. In late 2016, Chandhoke also served on the unsecured creditors' committee of UCI International, Inc to successfully bring UCI, with approximately $600 million of debt, out of bankruptcy. Since August 2009, Chandhoke has also served as the Chairman and CEO of Alesiatec, Inc, a big data analytics software company. He has invested in several technology companies such as Violin Memory, where VII Peaks invested from Series A to pre-IPO rounds of financing, and Bitzer Mobile, which was later sold to Oracle. Chandhoke has invested in media companies including Ansgar Media, which is an independent film studio based out of Louisiana. He was the Executive Producer of Born to Be Blue, released in 2015, Co-Producer of Jeepers Creepers 3, released in 2016, and Executive Producer of Blaze, released in 2017.

Before founding VII Peaks Capital, LLC in 2009, Gurpreet Chandhoke had more than six years of investment banking experience. From August 2006 to February 2009, he was Senior Vice President of Deutsche Bank Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco. From August 2005 to August 2006, he worked for UBS Investment Bank as an Associate Director. Chandhoke has been involved in over $40 billion of corporate finance transactions as an advisor and has helped issue over $20 billion of debt in various leveraged and corporate buyout transactions.

During his tenure at both institutions, he also participated in diverse corporate finance and M&A transactions in the internet, enterprise software and infrastructure & communications technology sectors. Chandhoke's responsibilities at Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank also involved the issuance of debt securities ranging from bank debt, corporate debt, high yield, and convertible debt securities. Chandhoke also worked on corporate finance transactions including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, debt issuances and recapitalizations at both Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank.

Sample transactions for Gurpreet Chandhoke as Advisor include the $1.4 billion sale of Tandberg TV to Ericsson; the $700 million merger of Inter-Tel with Mitel; the $2.1 billion sale of Redback Networks to Ericsson; the $1 billion merger and leveraged buyout of attachmateWRQ and NetIQ by Golden Gate Capital, Francisco Partners, and Thoma Cressey Partners; the $386 million acquisition and leveraged buyout of EnterasysNetworks by The Gores Group and Tennenbaum Capital Partners; the $600 million sale of IGN Networks to Fox Interactive; the $337 million acquisition of Peribit Networks by Juniper Networks; and the $1.2 billion leveraged buyout of Serena Software by Silver Lake Partners. Mr. Chandhoke led several different types of debt issuances, restructuring discussions and transactions with technology companies and financial sponsors while at Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank.

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