Sell-Side Trends and Strategies
Presented By: Honigman / Palm Tree LLC
Selling a company isn’t just about the deal—it’s about mastering the art of preparation for both the company and the CEO or owner. Learn game-changing insights for maximizing valuation and streamlining the sales process from deal-minded executives and a veteran M&A attorney that will help you better understand today's sell-side environment.
Moderator:
Partner, M&A Practice Leader
Honigman
Tracy Larsen is a corporate partner and leader of Honigman’s M&A practice. Having one of the most active transactional practices in the Midwest, Tracy represents clients in a wide array of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, recapitalization, restructuring and corporate finance transactions. He has led hundreds of M&A transactions, both domestic and international, involving tens of billions of dollars in trade value.
Panelists:
Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Consulting
Palm Tree LLC
Mitchel Nakken co-leads Palm Tree consulting service lines, which gives perspectives on financial data that enable buyers and sellers to make more informed decisions, minimize business disruption, visualize opportunities, and drive value creation. Mr. Nakken helped establish Palm Tree financial consulting service lines and has extensive post-close integration experience and has helped ease business transitions to new ownership by establishing continuity, improving information flow, and augmenting key implementation work streams for both private equity and corporate clients.
Managing Partner
Green Light Growth Partners
Josh has over 20 years of professional experience focused on principal investing, M&A advisory, financial analysis, operations, corporate development and strategic planning within the automotive industry.
Prior to founding Green Light Growth Partners, Josh was a Senior Managing Director at Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC where he led the firm’s US Automotive & Transportation Investment Banking practice and was the Automotive & Transportation Sector Leader for the Transaction Advisory Services practice across the Americas.
Prior to joining Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC, Josh worked for Platinum Equity with a focus on transaction execution and operational turnarounds of automotive portfolio companies throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Josh’s experience also includes M&A advisory and principal investing at Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., corporate development and strategy within Eaton Corporation’s automotive division and product engineering and sales at Faurecia North America.
Josh received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering & Management Institute) and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
