Transactional Liability: De-Risking Buy-Side M&A Deals
Presented By: Barnes & Thornburg LLP / Lockton
Uncover the art of priming your company for a successful buy-side transaction. Join a group of veteran dealmakers as they reveal effective strategies for evaluating and mitigating risk as part of your acquisitional growth strategy.
Moderator:
Managing Director, Transaction Liability
Lockton
Eddie joined the industry-leading Transaction Liability Group at Lockton in 2021 as a Senior Vice President and now serves as Managing Director.
Eddie started his career as a corporate associate at Paul Weiss, a market-leading practice in public M&A and private equity, where he practiced law for five years before joining Aon in 2018 as a Vice President. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2020 focusing on insurance solutions that facilitated M&A and material corporate transactions. Prior to attending law school, Eddie was a seventh-grade English teacher in New York City, through Teach for America, for three years.
Panelists:
Partner
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Kevin advises a wide range of domestic and international clients and provides an in-depth understanding of substantive legal disciplines in virtually all corporate issues. With a keen eye for detail, he assists clients in corporate matters and transactions including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, corporate governance and structure, cross-border business transactions, private equity investments, and business taxation.
Principal
Huron Capital
Cale is a member of the Investment Team and responsible for deal execution and portfolio company monitoring and value creation initiatives.
Prior to joining Huron Capital, Cale was an Investment Banking Analyst in William Blair’s Services and Industrials group, where he was responsible for executing sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions. His responsibilities included valuation, financial analysis, deal execution, and strategic advisory for both sell-side and buy-side engagements.
B.A. in Finance from Michigan State University.
COO
365 Retail Markets
Brittany Westerman is the Chief Operating Officer for 365 Retail Markets, the market leading provider of unattended retail technology. Through organic growth and acquisitions, 365 has built a technology platform that foodservice operators rely on to power their stores and run their operations. While with 365, Brittany has overseen all transactions including mergers, acquisitions, and private equity recapitalizations.