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John Soden, III

Managing Director
Healthcare Investment Banking
+1 415.364.5941
jsoden@tweisel.com


John Soden is a Managing Director in Healthcare Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners. John joined the firm in 2004 and is based in San Francisco. He focuses on medical technologies and life science tools/reagents. He has 12 years of experience in investment banking. Prior to joining the firm, John was a Director in both the Healthcare and M&A groups at UBS Investment Bank; he joined the predecessor firm, Dillon, Read & Co. as an Associate. He began his investment banking career as a Financial Analyst focused on Energy M&A at CS First Boston. John received a BA degree in Economics with honors from Northwestern University.
Notable Transactions

Company Name
Ticker Trans. Type Trans. Amt.
(in M)
Trans. Date
ev3 Inc./FoxHollow Technologies, Inc.
EVVV M&A $780.0 USD 10/4/07
Symyx Technologies/MDL Information Systems
SMMX M&A $123.0 USD 10/2/07
Hansen Medical
HNSN IPO $86.3 USD 11/15/06
LeMaitre Vascular
LMAT IPO $38.5 USD 10/19/06
Caliper Life Sciences/Xenogen Corp.
CALP M&A $80.0 USD 8/9/06
American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc/Laserscope
AMMD M&A $715.0 USD 7/19/06
American Medical Systems Holdings
AMMD CVT $373.8 USD 6/21/06
Applied Biosystems Inc./Ambion
ABI M&A $273.0 USD 3/2/06
Vital Signs, Inc.
VITL FO $97.3 USD 2/2/06
NxStage Medical
NXTM IPO $63.3 USD 10/27/05
AtriCure
ATRC IPO $55.2 USD 8/5/05
ev3 Inc.
EVVV IPO $167.7 USD 6/16/05
Jabil Circuit Inc./Varian Inc.
JBL M&A $195.0 USD 3/11/05
FoxHollow Technologies
FOXH IPO $72.5 USD 10/28/04

TWP transactions indicated in bold.