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Auto Aftermarket practice leader and strategic advisor across the aftermarket supply chain from manufacturers/suppliers to distributors/retailers to auto/heavy duty service repair/maintenance for the replacement parts, collision and enthusiast/SEMA segments. Extensive strategic relationships and transaction experience.

M&A advisory and strategic capital raising for mid-cap corporations and financial sponsors. Keystone strategic advisory transactions spanning Industrial, Consumer, TMT and Healthcare. Sector focus auto aftermarket and business services/value added distribution

Middle market investment banking group in partnership with Commercial Banking platform and middle market sponsor clients, focused on M&A and capital raising. Sector focus included auto aftermarket, business services/value-added distribution and food service distribution. Wachovia Capital Markets and First Union Securities became Wachovia Securities at the time of the bank merger in 2002

Head of Investment Banking for Wachovia after their acquisition of broker dealer Interstate/Johnson Lane.

Recruited to join Wachovia Bank in 1997 to help form the Merchant Banking and Financial Advisory Group and initiate and develop the M&A and capital raising advisory platform.

Mergers and Acquisition Advisory Partner, Ernst and Young's Financial Advisory/Corporate Finance practice leader for Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic region. Earlier was a Tax Partner with the firm focused on deal structuring, including leading National Tax Office M&A deal structuring programs spanning Subchapter C, Subchapter S and Subchapter K (Partners and Partnerships).

Advise on structuring corporate and shareholder transactions

Assisted in ownership and corporate restructuring, first institutional debt offering.