Financing Growth: A Deep Dive Into Understanding Sources, Structure and Business Valuation

A partner at Dickinson Wright, Brad Wyatt has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities matters.  Mr. Wyatt has helped numerous clients secure needed growth capital ranging from angel rounds of a few hundred thousand dollars to public securities offerings of hundreds of millions.  A member in the firm's Corporate practice group. Mr. Wyatt also regularly advises companies in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance matters and general contracting. By night, Mr. Wyatt teaches a course on private equity as an adjust professor at the University of Michigan Law School.  Founded in 1878, Dickinson Wright is a full-service Am Law 200  firm with over 500 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States and Canada. 

Richard is state president and head of commercial banking for Citizens Bank, Michigan, a commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. He directs financial activities and leads the bank’s  community involvement initiatives. He also directs the Michigan commercial middle-market lending team.He is a member of CFG’s Executive Leadership Group and the company ‘s senior leadership team.

Julie is a seasoned investor with 15 years of experience assisting individuals and institutions in their financial decisions. As a Director for Prudential Capital Group, she leads the team responsible for marketing, originating and managing a $2.5 billion portfolio of private placement and mezzanine investments in Michigan- and Wisconsin-based companies. Julie works with middle market companies to provide structuring ideas and capital across the balance sheet to finance a variety of situations including expansion, acquisitions, recapitalization, and shareholder liquidity/transitions.

Larry Williams, a proven leader with 30-plus years of experience, was appointed president at Henniges Automotive in 2016. He drives the business of the global organization, which consists of 19 manufacturing locations across eight countries, with annual sales exceeding $1 billion generated from sealing, glass encapsulation and anti-vibration systems manufactured for the global automotive industry.
Previously, he led the global finance organization as chief financial officer at Henniges, with responsibility for the global finance, audit, purchasing and IT functions.