ACGSV M&A Circle - August 2026

ACG Silicon Valley’s M&A Circle is the chapter’s recurring forum for deal professionals on strategy, execution, and process. The August session is framed around acquisitions as capability, talent, data, and technology plays in an AI-shaped valuation environment, with hosts Adam Fauvre (RSM) and Craig Lilly (technology M&A counsel; chapter board) on the event page. ACG remains the Bay’s durable middle-market deal host; Circle nights are association density for people who already work Peninsula M&A, PE, growth equity, or adjacent advisory. Go if that is your seat at the table and you want the August process night in Menlo Park.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton at 1302 El Camino Real puts the room in Menlo Park on the Peninsula - El Camino law-firm geography, not a downtown SF reception. Listed pricing: complimentary for SV chapter members, $30 for other ACG chapter members, and $60 for nonmembers. Confirm live registration on the ACG Silicon Valley event page. Official CTA: Register with ACG Silicon Valley. Member checkout is where chapter status gets checked; nonmembers should budget the $60 tier.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 4:00-6:00 PM at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, 1302 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Same afternoon, JCCNC’s California-Japan night runs in San Francisco at Morrison Foerster. Choose the corridor that matches your calendar: ACG deal process in Menlo Park, or Japan chamber / JETRO density in the Financial District. Those rooms do not substitute for each other, and El Camino evening traffic plus building check-in will eat any fantasy of doing both.

Peninsula M&A and growth-equity practitioners who already use ACG SV should register for Circle as the August process night. Arrive with confirmation for the El Camino office. If your Wednesday is really Japan trade and consular partners, take JCCNC in the city and leave Menlo Park to the deal circle.