John is a Partner in the Chicago office of Deloitte’s M&A Transaction Services group. John has over twenty years of public accounting experience in both M&A Transaction Services and Assurance. He has assisted a variety of strategic and financial buyer clients with merger and acquisition activities including financial due diligence analysis, transaction structuring, divestiture services and deal negotiation support. His clients have included public and private entities of various sizes in the automotive, industrial, chemical, and consumer products industries as well as a wide range of financial buyers. John’s experience includes financial due diligence and divestiture services on industrial, chemical and automotive OEM's, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, fabricators, distributors, process manufacturers and sellers of goods and services. His expertise includes the evaluation of normalized earnings, working capital requirements, identification of stand-alone costs and carve-out adjustment analysisJohn has lead a number of multifunctional teams in the performance of pre-acquisition and divestiture transaction services including the involvement of tax, human capital, valuation and consulting services including post-merger integration and transition services.