Acquisitions: Best practices and pitfalls

Jon serves as a counselor to high net worth families, including some of Cleveland’s leading philanthropic families. His practice includes estate and wealth planning and related tax matters. Jon structures complex and sophisticated trust vehicles to provide asset protection and succession planning. He is also a member of KJK’s executive committee. He represents public and private companies in securities litigation and other complex commercial disputes.

Ansir is a well-respected entrepreneur, business leader and an embodiment of the American dream. The first person in his family to leave Pakistan for higher education, as a student he quickly landed a job working at a gyro shop. From there, it was patently obvious to him that he needed to own his own business. Upon graduating with marketing and MIS degrees from Cleveland State University, Ansir went to work for Pepsi. Today, he is the founder and CEO of PWC.

Jack is a senior managing director and founder of A&M Capital. Since 2005, Jack has been a managing director and national practice leader of Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Advisory Group, which serves both private equity sponsors and certain strategic investors. From 2008 to 2010 he served on assignment as head of Principal Investments & Private Equity for Lehman Brothers Holdings.

Neil is the president and CEOof Transtar Holding Company, an integrated portfolio of brands that provides distribution and manufacturing of OE and aftermarket automotive products. Neil has extensive experience in M&A transactions. His experience includes numerous projects in both sell-side and buy-side transactions, successfully originating, negotiating, restructuring, and executing a range of middle-market acquisitions, together with post-merger integration.