The Strategic Buyer: Legal and Human Capital Challenges in Buy-Side M&A

Amanda Cooper Benbow, СВРА, is a visionary strategist with a proven track record of collaborating with premier private equity firms, investment firms, and family offices to orchestrate seamless mergers and acquisitions. With unwavering precision, Amanda delivers bespoke human resource infrastructures that empower organizations to navigate complex transactions with ease. Her mission is to elevate both the firm and its current/future investments by offering comprehensive solutions for procurement, administration, and ensuring absolute compliance across all facets of human resources. Amanda's expertise and commitment to excellence set the gold standard in driving success and sustainable growth in today's dynamic business landscape.

Amanda joined Insperity in fall 2017 as a business performance advisor and has a stellar track record of being an annual top performer, achieving Pinnacle Summit three times and Chairman’s Club twice.

While not at the office, Amanda is mother to two adorable little girls, a wife to an oil & gas entrepreneur and dedicated philanthropist. She enjoys traveling with her family, is an enthusiastic about her board position at Arrow Child & Family Ministries. Amanda always has the best interest of her peers and clients at heart!

Cleve Glenn brings a holistic business perspective to his corporate and commercial practice, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and outside general counsel services, including drafting and negotiating commercial leases, sale-leaseback transactions, master service agreements, supply agreements and financing documents. His corporate clients include middle market energy companies, real estate development companies, private equity portfolio companies, family offices and financial services companies. Cleve also provides mergers and acquisitions and commercial law counsel to a publicly held rail transportation company providing services to the industrial, energy, transportation and construction industries.

Cleve's background as general counsel and CFO of an energy services company allows him to understand every client's business goals and view each transaction within that framework, resulting in creative solutions with impactful results. A Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas, he has been named a Top Lawyer in Corporate Finance Mergers and Acquisitions by Houstonia Magazine and a Most Effective Dealmaker by Texas Lawyer.

Quinn Heidenreich is Founder and Managing Partner of Allied Strategic Partners. Allied is an operationally focused private asset management firm. specializing in marine and waterfront hospitality businesses. Quinn is responsible for overseeing all facets of the firm’s activities, from investment sourcing and valuation to transaction structuring, fundraising, investment financing, and the administration of value creation initiatives across Allied’s portfolio.

Otis Ofori is a Partner at Greenhall Capital Partners, an operationally-focused control private equity firm where he leads the firm’s investments in the Business Services and Technology & Telecom sectors. Mr. Ofori is based in Los Angeles and since co-founding Greenhall Capital, has been responsible for the firm’s investments in MBI Logistics and Smartlink. Prior to Greenhall Capital, Mr. Ofori was a corporate attorney at Winston & Strawn LLP, in their corporate group, where he executed private equity transactions across several industries in the U.S. Prior to that, Mr. Ofori was an Analyst at LECG where he was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice. Mr. Ofori received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia. He also holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as an Articles Editor for the Virginia Tax Review.