Purdue University

Purdue University Daniels School of Business

Oakville Senior High School

Associate at Antares Capital LP

Assist with the diligence, underwriting, structuring, documentation, and monitoring of cash flow loans for middle market, private equity-backed companies. Financing used to support leveraged buyouts (LBO’s), add-on acquisitions, dividend recapitalizations, and refinancings. Broad industry experience with greater specialization in healthcare and software related transactions, including recurring revenue structured financings.

Antares Capital LP

Assistant Vice President

Assisted with various enterprise initiatives including the organization and execution of Antares’ new Liquid Credit platform, driving operational efficiencies on transaction closing and liquidity optimization, developing and training functional departments on new policies, researching competitive market dynamics and strategic opportunities, and presenting and aligning with senior leadership on strategic proposals and updates on in-flight initiatives.

Internal Strategy Rotation

Associate

Analyst

Healthcare & Life Sciences Coverage Group

- Assisted senior bankers in prospective and actively mandated sell-side and buy-side transactions. 
- Closed transactions in the physician practice management and life sciences industry segments. 
- Analyzed additional opportunities across the healthcare products, devices, and healthcare IT sectors. 
- Mentored multiple summer analysts on investment banking skills including financial modeling, creation of marketing materials, professional communication, business diligence, and project management.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Investment Banking Analyst

• Worked actively across sell-side, buy-side, capital placement and strategic advisory transactions and prospective engagements
• Built custom financial models and developed scenario-based analyses to evaluate opportunities available to current and prospective clients
• Conducted extensive company and industry diligence to evaluate feasibility of transactions and potential counter-party targets
• Developed Board of Directors presentations outlining preliminary valuation ranges
• Created pitch books focusing on strategic M&A options, capital structure optimization, LBO analyses and strategic alternatives
 
Select Transaction Experience
• [ Sell-Side Engagement; Closed Nov. 2016 ]: Engaged by niche industrial component manufacturer and distributor client to assist in determination of strategic alternatives, including partial or whole liquidation of ownership of major shareholders 
• [ Private Capital Placement; Closed Sep. 2015, Oct. 2016 ]: Engaged by senior living facility developer and operator client to structure and place capital through institutional and retail investor channels on two separate transactions, each resulting in subscriptions well in excess of initial targets
• [ Valuation Engagement; Closed Dec. 2015 ]: Engaged by marketing services client to provide thoughts on valuation and strategic alternatives to maximize value potential

City Securities Corporation

• Established accounting standards for firm which previously had not existed and trained new financial analyst on how to create the main financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, Statement of Retained Earnings)
• Identified new market opportunities previously unrealized and created sales strategy that amounted to expansion in industry verticals and increase in sales by 10%
• Initiated a SWOT analysis where I discovered key weaknesses in technology infrastructure and presented my research to the owners, driving $70,000 investment in technology improvements

Signature Settings

Consultant - Purdue based project

•	Crafted presentations, transaction summaries and other financial documents which were used to present syndicated transactions to market
•	Summarized industry transactions for management to establish valid transaction comparables through research on Market Research
•	Revised debt sourcing models, pro-forma leverage and drawdown financials and equity financial modeling for over 20 client presentations to prospective participants in broadly syndicated transactions

Capital Markets Intern

•	Analyzed target company financial performance and variance reports to understand predictability of forecasted performance
•	Provided analysis of significant market trends, enhancing visibility on industry dynamics to origination team
•	Reviewed financials, CIM’s and other corporate documents
•	Formed comprehensive database of prior transactions, discussing key data with senior partners

Matt Christopher