International alliance’s M&A Services Group appoints new global leadership team
18 July 2018
M&A experts from across the EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific regions form new leadership team to strengthen group's unique value proposition.
Two corporate lawyers and one accountant from three different Alliott Group member firms in Australia, the UK and the United States have been appointed to lead the international alliance’s M&A Services Group. The new global leadership team will oversee a strategy that aims to provide the alliance’s member firms with a stronger local value proposition for winning and servicing domestic and cross-border M&A work.
Richard Kaplan of Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe (‘Golenbock Eiseman’) in New York and Jon Broadley of Broadley Rees & Hogan will lead and implement Alliott Group’s M&A strategy in the EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific regions respectively.
As well as implementing operational measures that will improve services to existing clients and generate further fee earning opportunities from within the alliance, the leadership team will oversee changes aimed at developing a more powerful international M&A services brand that will enable member firms to win a larger share of local advisory work in the mid-market domestic and cross border M&A sector.
Richard Kaplan, a transactional corporate lawyer and partner at Golenbock Eiseman adds: “The wealth of interdisciplinary M&A related expertise within this alliance is unique and provides a powerful resource base for clients and member firms. Working together, our accountant and lawyer members can cover most aspects of a transaction for buyers or sellers, almost anywhere in the world.”
Jon Broadley, partner at Broadley Rees & Hogan comments: “While the sweet spot for our group members is transactions in the US$1-500 million range, member firms have specialist expertise in advising on smaller deals at the local level as well as larger deals involving private equity. The next 12 months will focus on ensuring that Alliott Group members harness this expertise and understand how to leverage the Alliott Group brand more effectively at the local level.”
The alliance’s 2016-17 M&A survey of 192 completed deals showed that the largest transaction was a US$3.39 billion private equity deal while the smallest was the sale of a local business in the food and drink sector for US$50,000.
The next meeting of the alliance’s M&A Services Group will be in Vancouver during the 2018 Worldwide Conference from 27-31 August.