Mr. Lederman co-founded Spectrum in 2000, having gained experience leading major transactions as a lawyer (with Sidley Austin and Shearman & Sterling), an investment banker (co-founder of The Gordian Group and the restructuring group at Goldman Sachs), and as an investor (general partner of Japonica Partners and The Fulcrum Capital Group). He has more than 30 years of experience in M&A, raising financing through the capital markets, and in restructuring public and private companies. Mr. Lederman has completed dozens of transactions as both advisor and principal, including the first-ever unsolicited takeover of a billion dollar public company while in Chapter 11 (Allegheny International, renamed Sunbeam-Oster upon emergence). He has also served in senior management positions and as a member of the Board of Directors of companies in which he has invested.In 2009, Messrs. Lederman and Sands sold Spectrum to Morgan Keegan and combined their business into Morgan Keegan’s investment bank, where Mr. Lederman headed up the Special Situations Group. With the sale of Morgan Keegan in 2012 to Raymond James, Messrs. Lederman and Sands reacquired Spectrum and returned to their merchant banking roots in which both their advisory and principal skills and experience are key to the success of their clients and partners.Mr. Lederman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Lederman received his M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the past national Treasurer of The Jewish National Fund, serves on its national board and chairs its $100 million Boruchin Center for Israel Education and Advocacy.