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Joined Silver Capital Advisors in 2017. Previously, co-founder, Axiom Financial Advisors, an Investment Banking Firm specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance advisory and the evaluation of Strategic Alternatives. Clients include Fortune 200 companies, smaller corporations, private equity, hedge funds, and non-profit entities. Senior banker for exclusive sell-side mandates on four continents. Financing & advisory transactions with deal values totaling over $10 billion. Formally: Managing Director, CIBC World Markets (formerly CIBC Oppenheimer), heading the Transportation Equipment & Services Group; Managing Director, UBS Securities, in Corporate Finance, Business Development, and M&A groups during ten year tenure; attorney, Skadden, Arps, specializing in negotiated acquisitions; Banking Section, Federal Reserve Board; publications: FRB Bulletin; American Economist; Chicago Literary Review.Clients include GM (sell-side M&A advisor), Dana (sell-side M&A advisor for 1 domestic & 6 foreign subsidiaries), Western Star (buy-side M&A advisor), Midwest Stamping (strategic advisor), AT&T (IPO of Lucent), BHP (valuation of US steel business), Frontier Communications (sole managed debt offer), Kmart (IPO & follow-on equity offering for Sports Authority), Tandy (IPO of O’Sullivan Industries), Valley Forge (sale of public company/fairness opinion), Warburg Pincus (lead manager for IPO & follow-on of CN Biosciences), Onex (sell-side M&A advisor), Full Circle Capital (credit analysis/strategic advisor), Setco Automotive (buy-side M&A advisor on 2 acquisitions), Pierburg (buy-side M&A advisor), Harley-Davidson (strategic advisor), Advanced Cell Technology (buy-side M&A advisor), Cape Air (strategic advisor), John Dewey Academy (valuation), and Open Pantry (strategic advisor/sell-side M&A advisor).JD/MBA, University of Chicago (student government representative for law & business schools; merit fellowship). BA Economics (Honors), Bucknell. Member of NY Bar.

Listed skills include Valuation, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Mergers And Acquisitions, and 9 others.