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Fritz
Richards
A co-founder of Prestwick
Partners, Mr. Richards offers a background in investment
banking, corporate law, and business advising to potential
clients. Most recently associated with two investment banking
firms — Greene Holcomb & Fisher
and Goldsmith, Agio, Helms (now Lazard Middle Market) — Mr. Richards
initiated and closed numerous transactions with middle-market
businesses. He has also acted as a corporate advisor for boards
of directors, addressing shareholder and corporate finance
issues. Prior to investment banking, Mr. Richards was a corporate
attorney with Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
His experience encompasses public offerings of debt and equity
securities, mergers, acquisitions, recapitalization, joint
ventures, private placements, fairness opinions, and valuations.
Mr. Richards has worked in a number of diverse industries including
industrial manufacturing, food service, aviation, construction,
and telecommunication equipment and services.
Mr. Richards received a J.D. from the University
of Minnesota Law School and a B.S. in business administration
from the University of Colorado with an emphasis in finance.
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Ingo Schulz
Mr. Schulz is a co-founder of Prestwick Partners and a veteran of more than 75 corporate finance and strategic advisory assignments. Prior to Prestwick Partners, he was a senior banker at Greene Holcomb & Fisher and Goldsmith, Agio, Helms (now Lazard Middle Market), both middle-market investment banking firms. He also has worked in commercial banking with Deutsche Bank AG.
As an investment banker, Mr. Schulz has advised both public and private companies in a broad range of corporate finance transactions and advisory assignments. His transaction experience includes mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, private placements, leveraged buyouts, industry consolidations, joint ventures, and valuations. His past clients range in size from start-up ventures to large multi-national corporations. As a generalist, Mr. Schulz has successfully led the completion of transactions in numerous industries, including consumer products, software/IT services, specialty chemicals, lifesciences, business services, diversified manufacturing, and industrial distribution.
Mr. Schulz received a B.S. in business administration from the University of St. Thomas with an emphasis in finance and accounting.
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Mike Groppetti
Prior to joining Prestwick Partners, Mr. Groppetti
was a vice president with Greene Holcomb & Fisher, a middle-market
investment banking firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Groppetti has been involved in a broad range of merger
and acquisition transactions and strategic advisory assignments
involving public and private companies as well as private equity
groups. He has varied transaction experience, including mergers
and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate divestitures
and various financial advisory assignments in the following
industries: food, consumer products, basic and high-tech manufacturing,
software, IT services, business services and medical devices.
Mr. Groppetti has also worked with RBC Dain Rauscher in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and with Riggs Bank in London, England.
Mr. Groppetti received a B.S. in business administration from
the University of Missouri with an emphasis in finance.
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